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Top News: FTC Privacy Scrutiny | Skechers Settles With FTC | Front-Lit Kindle | Facebook: Madison Ave. Skeptical | Pinterest's $100MM Funding

Ad Technology: Microsoft Reminder: Upgrade to Adintelligence v.8 Before the End of May Best Practices: Response: Will We Really Grow Display By Incentivizing Low Bidd  [...]

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Yahoo: Four Techniques For adCenter Optimization

Are search marketers leaving money on the table by putting clients' adCenter campaigns on "autopilot?" “It’s time for a reality check,” say the experts at Yahoo! Advertising Solutions. Guest Blogger Marc Poirier observes that search marketers have plenty of opportunities to boost impressions and pay-per-click (PPC) results. (Acquisio is a perform  [...]

Users Want Ease of Decision More Than Engagement

Surprise! Online buyers don’t necessarily want to “engage” with a favorite brand. And they will switch favorites in a hurry to the brand that makes the buying decision easier. That according to research and advisory services firm Corporate Executive Board (CEB). CEB has found that consumers feel overwhelmed with information and usually want want less of it (including marketing mes  [...]

Google DFP Upgrades Streamline Campaign Trafficking, IAB Standards Compliance

Google has substantially re-jigged DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) to streamline and simplify campaign trafficking and report options, and to simplify compliance with Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) standards for privacy and opt-outs. Improved Custom Targeting Input: Fewer steps, clicks, and screens throughout the trafficking process will "help you streamline your workflows," promises Google. Users  [...]

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Google: Why a Mobile Site Over An App?

Google in its adSense blog has offered some pearls of wisdom about prioritizing between mobile sites or mobile apps. Aren't apps the step-change evolution over mobile sites? Not necessarily, advises Google’s app expert Tuyen Nguyen, who offered some questions to consider. First, decide how you want users to access content. Mobile sites require users to have data access, while apps enabl  [...]

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Ad Technology: Meet the anti-Groupon Agencies: WPP Lifts Forecast Campaigns of Note: Flexjet   [...]

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"Organic Growth" Is A Valuable Marketing Strategy, Just Not Enough By Itself

Just what is an “organic” strategy? By some definitions, it is an inbound marketing strategy, centered around word of mouth and through engagement. But MarketingTech founder Douglas Karr does not believe it is enough. Karr is also the president and CEO of DK New Media, and as he described, at least one client has invested marketing dollars in just the one strategy—organic growth. Karr likened an † [...]

How to: Get the most out of your ad placement | Use Google's new "top vs. side" report segment

How to Get the Most Out of Your Ad Placement Certain impressions are generally more effective depending where they are on the page, finds a new report [PDF] by Casale Media. Try to, it said: Place the ad above-the-fold. Ads displayed within the first screen of a user's browser window were almost seven times more effective at generating a click-thru than ads delivered below-the-fold. Be f  [...]

Industry Calls for Standardized Email Metrics

The Email Experience Council is pushing to standardize metrics it has developed after a two-year research endeavor that included surveying dozens of email broadcast vendors. The bottom-line reason for its call for industry-accepted metrics, it says in its blog, is that it has become impossible to compare response and deliverability rates when terms are based on different calculations. The   [...]

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 12/14/09

Account Moves: TVGuide.com has selected PubMatic to optimize its ad revenue. Strategies: Package-goods players are ramping up online spend. Email Marketing: Embedded video in e-mail slows  [...]

How To: Strengthen Your Pay-Per-Click Chops

Effective PPC management demands persistence, creativity, and discipline. The following steps should help strengthen your campaigns and help to determine and meet your ROI goals (via NVI Solutions). 1. Keywords Regularly adding new keywords to your ad groups will help you capitalize on new or missed traffic. Use  [...]

How To: Track Transactions To Initial Referrer

Marketers dishing dough for site traffic via AdWords may not know that many final transactions don't occur until later - when users return to the site organically. And Google Analytics, by default, attributes transactions to the last referrer. This how-to by ROI Revolution offers a way to change your Google Analytics Trac  [...]

How-to: A Rough Guide To Advertising On Facebook

A recent collaborative effort by SEOmoz CEO Randfish and David Klein offers advice on how best to leverage advertising on Facebook and build investment confidence in the space. The following is a summary of their findings, posted on SEOmoz.com. Facebook, sporting hundreds of millions of users, makes a compelling case for investing (chart   [...]

How-To: Tips for Targeting Tweens

Tweens, aged 8-12, grew up with computer and internet access, making them different from previous generations of pre-teens. One-third possess a mobile phone. And while they are physically still children, socially they are beginning to explore what it means to be a teenager -- a state they think is typified by freedoms they lack. In 2003, 33.3 million teens inhabited the US (32.5 mill  [...]

How-To: 10 Enterprise Blogging Trends for 2008

How-To is a new MarketingVOX feature. Most of the information in this section will be populated by industry professionals. How-To is not composed of universal truths, so be sure to conduct follow-up research and make decisions that ultimately serve the success of your company. Blogger and founder Chris Baggott of Compendium Blogware has published 10 tips for organizations aspiring to blog. The tips follow thus: ROI based on Search Engine Optimizati  [...]