
Best Practices For Image Ads On The Google Display Network
Creating image ads for the Google Display Network — especially if you’re coming from a search marketing background where images are novel...

Online Mortgage Lead Generator To Pay $500K Fine For Deceptive Ads
A Colorado-based firm has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that it falsely advertised free...

Is Your Retargeting Missing The Bullseye?
In my last article, I told you about the retargeting trap — this is where marketers rush to put all their money into retargeting because...

Geeking Out On Digital Ads: A Definitive History Of IAB Standards
The Author Sadly Geeking Out on Ad Standards The astute reader may not be surprised to hear that I collected match book covers in my...

Google Brings Analytics To Chrome Toolbar For AdSense And Other Google Publishers
Google publishers using the Google Publisher Toolbar can now see Google Analytics data directly in the toolbar. The toolbar is available...

What Did Digital Media Pros Do On Summer Vacation? Business, Of Course!
If you’re like me, the end of the summer is the time when you pack your bag and try and catch a break before the fall arrives — and...

“Yahoo Recommends” Brings Stream Ads To Third-Party Sites
Yahoo’s native “Stream ads” are now appearing on other publisher sites via a content recommendation engine that incorporates sponsored...

Get With The Programmatic: A Primer On Programmatic Advertising
Chances are you’ve heard the buzz surrounding programmatic advertising and how it is projected to account for 50% of digital ad sales by...

Banned AdSense Publisher Cries Foul After Receiving Encouragement From Google Reps
Business Insider has the story of an AdSense publisher who says Google owes him the $46,000 his account accrued before Google banned him...

Yahoo Acquires Anti-Ad Blocker Startup ClarityRay
Little is known about the company’s ad security efforts alluded to in the acquisition announcements. As of August 6, ad-blocking...

Google AdSense Launches Newly Designed Home Page
It appears publishers must now use the new dashboard Google AdSense began testing toward the end of last year, and not everybody is happy...

Predicting And Creating The Media RFP Of 2016
Without question, digital media planning is evolving continuously. In some ways, this evolution is happening too fast for the media...

Viewability Rising As Programmatic Dominates & Fraud Proliferates
The number of companies using programmatic ad buying is increasing by the day. A recent Advertiser Perceptions survey reports that 78% of...

Consumers Reject Lowest Common Denominator Native Ads — And So Should You
Not all native advertising is created equal. There is a wide and growing disparity between high-quality examples — those that are in the...

Yahoo Launches ComScore vCE Integration To Lure Brand Advertisers
Today, Yahoo announced the integration with comScore’s audience verification service, Validated Campaign Essentials (vCE), is now live on...

IAB Study Looks At Programmatic’s Global Expansion Opportunities
While the United States has seen programmatic audience development — the practice of automating digital advertising sales based on...

Marketing Soothsayers: It’s Time To Go ‘Native’ With Your Advertising
Recently, my company, The 614 Group, joined forces with content advertising leader OneSpot to conduct a study in which we surveyed almost...

The Retargeting Trap: How Targeting Conversions Hurts ROI
Data are wonderful things. Properly applied, data can provide insights into where to trim budget and where to increase it. Data will...

6 Common Mistakes Of Acquisition Marketers
New customers are the lifeblood of any business, and often the most expensive area of investment. Brands often build complex processes...
























