
Agency Vs. Publisher Smackdown: Who Will Win The Battle To Create Content For Brands?
It has been posited that, in the future, the best advertising content will be created by publishers, not agencies or brands. After all,...

Looking For A New Ad Product That Delivers Premium Results? Look No Further Than Native
It’s no secret that there is very little consensus on the definition of native advertising. Some digital marketers will argue that a...

Yahoo: Native Ads Drive 3.6X Lift In Branded Search Vs. Conventional Display
As one part of its growth strategy, Yahoo has bet heavily on native ads. The company’s Gemini platform offers both mobile search and...

Retargeting Roundtable: Up Close @SMX
Retargeting options abound for marketers today, and the Retargeting Roundtable session at SMX West sought to make sense of the landscape...

Google Now Auto-Converts Flash Display Ads To HTML5 For Mobile
Chukcha / Shutterstock.com Today, Google announced that display ads created in Flash now will be converted automatically to HTML5 to make...

The 3 Ad Creative Types Digital Marketers Need To Master
Digital advertising creativity is flourishing, having undergone a dramatic transformation over the past several years. Gone are the days...

The Affiliate Publisher Evolution
Affiliate marketing sure looks a lot different than it did 20 years ago. Gone are the flashing banners, pop-up ads and discount-only...

LinkedIn Rolls Out New “Lead Accelerator” Tool & Expands Display Ad Network Beyond
LinkedIn is going after more marketing and advertising dollars, announcing today it is expanding its existing portfolio of marketing...

Redesigning Your Ad-Supported Site For Viewability & Mobile
Now, more than ever, publishers need to focus their attention toward optimal site design to own a piece of the advertising puzzle. At The...

Online Retailers Saw Huge Drop-Off During Super Bowl, But Pre-Game Was Strong
If you want to get a sense of the Super Bowl’s grip on America, the graphs below from Criteo highlight how game day affects the consumer...

The Modern Face Of Display Ads
When I began in search, display advertising had been oversaturated with the most infamous of elements — pop up ads, flashing banners and...

Microsoft’s Bing Ads To Test Native Advertising On MSN.com
Microsoft’s Bing Ads has plans to test native ads on MSN.com later in the year, extending beyond the search ads it delivers across the...

It’s The Creative, Stupid: 3 Reasons Why Ad Creative Trumps Technology Every Time
Marketers, agencies, publishers, and especially technology companies get so caught up in the potential of technology and data to optimize...

What 30 Seconds Of Super Bowl Ad Money Would Have Bought Online: 2,542,573,344 Impressions
A post-game empirical analysis by programmatic ad platform Rocket Fuel shows almost no lift or conversion benefit to Super Bowl...

Navigating The Modern Ad Serving Stack, Part 2: Programmatic Direct
In the first installment of this series, we examined the age-old process of buying and selling inventory directly from publishers: direct...

Google AdX, OpenX & Rubicon Project Remain Top-Rated Programmatic Sellers
Google AdX, OpenX and Rubicon Project held onto their top-three rankings on the January Seller Trust Index of programmatic ad sellers...

Native Advertising Budgets Will Rise In 2015, Say Marketers
Yahoo CMO Kathy Savitt on Yahoo’s Native Ad Impact, Digital New Fronts 2014 Marketers are planning to increase investment in native...

How Marketers Can Turn Super Bowl Mania Into Sales With Retargeting
Just because your company isn’t among the handful of brands forking over the big bucks for the chance to capture millions of eyeballs...

Google Will Retire “Other Interests” Display Network Targeting Feb 17
Google announced last month that “Other interests” targeting on the Google Display Network would be going away. The change was supposed...
























