
Intelligent IP: Revolutionary Ad Targeting For Locally-Minded Marketers
In my last column, I analyzed the limitations of cookie-based behavioral targeting for locally-focused advertisers. As demonstrated in...

Google AdSense Asynchronous Ad Code Launches In Beta
At long last, “fully” asynchronous ad code is available in Google AdSense. The new asynchronous code is designed to improve web latency...

For RTB Success, Focus on Value — Not Cost
Scanning the agendas at this year’s search trade shows as well as popular articles on the industry’s leading search websites, it is...

Facebook Changes Ad Policy, Promises To Keep Ads Off Controversial Pages & Groups
The new policy comes in response to recent complaints from advertisers whose ads were showing up on controversial Pages and Groups, as...

Study: US Travel And Retail Sectors Got Aggressive With Programmatic Display In Q2
The study found that, in addition to increasing investment in search, retail advertisers spent 130 percent more on programmatic display...

FBX News Feed Ad Study: CTRs 21X Higher, CPCs 79% Lower Than Standard Retargeting
AdRoll looked at over 1 billion impressions from 547 advertisers running retargeting campaigns on FBX right-hand side, FBX News Feed and...

Google Launches Affinity Segments To Align AdWords And YouTube Targeting With TV Ad Buys
Brand advertisers have long complained about the challenges of making targeted ad buys at scale online in the way they are used to doing...

Media Buying 101: Why You Need Your Own Ad Server
As an advertiser, there is no better way to purchase massive amounts of online display ad inventory than directly from publishers or ad...

Impression Score Among New AdSense Ad Review Center Features
Impression score indicates whether an ad has a high, medium or low number of impressions per day compared to the other ads on your site....

Microsoft Unveils New Ad Solution For Windows 8 Apps, Aimed At Brands
The new solution came out of Microsoft’s partnership with creative agencies — including AKQA, Big Spaceship, Razorfish, Team...

Google Issues AdSense Publisher Scorecards For Performance Benchmarking
Located on the Home tab in your AdSense account, the scorecard offers a performance summary of your ad settings, webpages and content...

Google Celebrates 10 Years Of AdSense: Says Over 2 Million Publishers Earned More Than $7 Billion La
The AdSense community has grown to include more than 2 million publishers, and last year alone, publishers earned more than $7 billion...

Webcast Wednesday: “Enhanced Campaigns: New Effective PPC Techniques”
Enhanced Campaigns become official on July 22nd. Are you prepared to reshape your adWords accounts? This Wednesday, Jun 19 at 1 PM EDT,...

Google’s Susan Wojcicki To Host Hangout For AdSense 10th Anniversary
Wojcicki, who lead the launch of AdSense, will be joined by three AdSense publishers to look back at the evolution of the program and...

Removing Marketing Silos To Better Understand The Customer Journey
Image via shutterstock Take a look around any marketing department today, and you’re likely to find clusters of marketers responsible for...

Crowdsourced Display Ad Design And Testing Platform Dispop Launches
Dispop was started by co-founders Ayal Ebert and Guy Falkovitch — the duo also behind DesignPax, a self-serve online design platform, and...

Google AdSense Expands Serving Smaller Ads In Larger Ad Units
When the smaller ads are served they float in the center of the ad format as shown in the example below. Google first allowed smaller ad...

Study: Facebook Exchange (FBX) News Feed Ads Rival Paid Search
Facebook began opening up news feed ad inventory to Facebook Exchange at the end of March and expanded the inventory offering to all its...

Let’s Raise Our Standards Online: Stop Faking ROI & Start Acting More Like TV
TV advertising is one of the most effective means of increasing brand awareness; and, despite the heightened use of ad-skipping devices,...























