
Study: For Display Ads Clicks Have “Nearly Zero” Correlation With Conversion
Another study supporting that argument, from comScore and Pretarget, argues that “ad viewability and hover time are more strongly...

Google To Back Branding Measurement Standards With “Brand Activate”
Sanaz Ahari, the Senior Product Manager for Brand Activate Citing the conventional wisdom that a lack of branding impact metrics is...

Search Beyond Search Engines Can Yield Valuable Data For Advertisers
We recently hosted a webinar with comScore focused on search data, which examined search activity happening across core search (Google,...

Nielsen: Consumer Trust In Traditional Media Ads Fall, While Confidence In Mobile, Social And Online
Word-of-mouth recommendations and reviews, either from someone they know or a stranger’s opinions online, are the most trusted sources of...

Getting The Most Out Of Google’s Contextual Targeting Tool
Google has a free tool that I consider to be a Swiss army knife of free keyword tools. Few people even know this free tool exists. Many...

Is Your Mobile Visibility Nonexistent?
Your business website is beautiful, full of interesting content, images, and cool functionality. You’re feeling good — until you try to...

Three Measurement Methods Challenging Campaign Performance: Key Takeaways from OMMA Global 2012
The challenge of appropriately attributing online advertising’s influence on a user exposed to multiple channels continues to slow the...

Get Beyond MarketingSpeak And Keep Your Job
Remember the somewhat annoying and endless stream of “s*%t people say” videos circulating on Facebook and YouTube last month? I’m still...

ComScore: Value And CPMs Are Out Of Whack
Not only are an average of 31% of display ads never even seen, but there’s little to no correlation between the CPMs sites are charging...

Facebook’s Choice — Make History, Or Be History
Facebook’s marketing conference late last month. Rightfully so. There’s a lot to digest. What’s interesting here isn’t so much what was...

Microsoft, AOL And Yahoo Begin Selling And Delivering Ads In Display Partnership
a blog post from Microsoft. The relationship, which first came to light in September of last year, is partly a reaction to Google’s...

The Future of Retargeting, Remarketing and Remessaging
Before we step into the future, I need to give you a little history to explain why there are three different names for the same concept....

Pew Survey: 68% View Targeted Ads Negatively; 59% Have Noticed Targeting
The findings are from a new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Around 2,000 adults in the US were surveyed between...

Banner-Ad Essentials: Top Tips For Improving Display Media Performance
Spending on display media is projected to grow at a rapid pace over the next few years ($11.73 billion by 2015, according to eMarketer...

Why Display’s Moneyball Event Hasn’t Happened…Yet
Data-driven dynamic creative can increase return on advertising spend (ROAS) anywhere between 2 to 20 times Almost all indications of...

IAB Releases Bigger, More Immersive Display Ad Unit Standards
The days of the good old medium rectangle, wide skyscraper and leaderboard may be numbered. The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has...

Facebook Tops US Display Advertising Now, But Google Is Poised To Take Over In 2013
new eMarketer projections out today — projections that suggest Google’s effort to expand its revenue base beyond search ads is working....

Google Shutting Down Hosted AdSense For Domains Program
“After evaluating the benefits of our partner network, we’ve decided to retire the Hosted domains product within AdSense,” Google wrote...

Budgeting For “Free” Social Media And The Need To Rebalance
Have you heard the news? It’s been trumpeted recently in no end of misleading, link-baity headlines such as these: P&G To Lay Off 1,600...