
Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble: Tough times ahead in digital
If there’s one certainty about bubbles, it’s that eventually, they burst. We’ve seen it happen time and again across various marketing...

Attribution, one step at a time
Marketers have always had a problem. They spend lots of money across lots of different marketing channels — PPC, display, affiliate,...

Build effective consumer relationships with ads that use intent data
Let’s take advantage of our ability to listen and “talk back” to consumers through effective deployment of intent marketing. One of the...

Demystifying the display advertising landscape
Display Lumascape. This chart is the most frequently referenced visual I’ve ever seen from people describing the display advertising...

Will personal marketing become the new mantra for political campaigns?
The current US presidential campaign has been one of the most fascinating and unusual episodes in electoral politics in a very long time,...

Putting the audience first in digital publishing and advertising
Thinking back to old-school newspaper editors, this idea of relationship building was at the core of their work. The same goes for...

A day of reckoning for digital display advertising?
Facebook recently announced that its efforts to build a demand-side platform (DSP) leveraging its Atlas and LiveRail technologies had not...

Fight ad fraud through innovation… just like the ancient Greeks
Most people have heard of the Trojan War. But if you haven’t, the famous story surrounding the war goes something like this… The Greeks...

How live audiences in real-time marketing are key to programmatic success
In essence, just like many of the middle class in this country are shouting their frustration with the government through the vessel of...

10 Best Practices For Digital Ad Breakthrough
With the proliferation of content and the rise of multimedia tasking, it’s harder than ever for ads to break through to viewers....

Pay Attention! 3 Steps To Digital Advertising Breakthrough
“Look at me, Judy,” I blurted out with exasperation at my 13-year-old daughter, trying to get her undivided attention. It was nearing 10...

The War On Bots: No Time For Doom & Gloom
Last week, the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and White Ops, a leading digital ad fraud detection and prevention service, put...

2016: The Year Of Display
The Chinese New Year is quickly approaching, and I am always curious to learn what the next 12 months might have in store based on...

Now Is The Time For Digital Marketing To Embrace Scarcity
What is scarcity, and why does it matter, anyway? It’s how Uber gets you to pay more for a car in a rainstorm when everyone else in the...

Now That The FTC Has Spoken On Native Advertising, What’s Next?
Two weeks ago, the Federal Trade Commission issued a long “enforcement policy statement” on native advertising. If you want to read all...

2016 Resolutions For Affiliate Advertisers: 5 Steps To A Successful Year Ahead
With 2015 just about in the rearview mirror, it’s time to look down the open road that is 2016. Affiliate marketing, with its roots in...

Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Reviewing The Top 3 Display Advertising Topics Of 2016
Now that the year is winding down, I’ve taken some time to look back to see how these predictions played out and consider how the year...

3 Steps To Display Advertising Success
display advertising. The average click-through rate for display ads is 0.06 percent, according to DoubleClick. That’s fewer than one out...

What’s Old Is New Again: Why Affiliate Marketing Is Growing
As the year comes to a close, I can’t help but think about all of the changes that have taken place over the past 12 months in our...
























