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Local Ad Dollars Go Mobile And Online: Who Buys Them, In What Formats?

Local ad spending will experience a compound annual growth of 2.6% through 2016, but online and mobile will lead the way with double-digit growth, compared to TV, radio and print. And technology and retail will lead that growth, with local search leading the formats. That according to BIA/Kelsey's Media Ad View reports, which projects that local ad revenues   [...]

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Google, DudaMobile Offer A Five-Minute Web-To-Mobile Site Conversion

It has been a little over a month since Google partnered with DudaMobile, the do-it-yourself mobile website builder. The partners are offering a quick “test drive” to see what a converted website looks like in a mobile format, with a rating (1 to 5) of mobile friendliness. The companies on April 5th announced a joint effort to expand GoMo, a Google-led initiative to help businesses “Go Mobile.”   [...]

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Microsoft Research: Target Young Men Online, But Know Their (Changing) Habits

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There are many questions surrounding the ultimate fate of Groupon’s IPO – except this: whatever the valuation winds up being, the group buying market has become a formidable local ad category, almost over night. An IPO, especially a successful one, will mean even more entrants into the market. And that will mean more choices, more channels and more opportunities to tweak the wording of a parti  [...]

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Top Toolkit News: Psychological analytics

Analytics ClearSaleing and Mindset Media are partnering to offer a service in which advertisers can identify the personality traits of their online consumers and determine which of these traits drive profit as well as identify efficient multi-channel advertising sources. HCD Research is launching a new service aimed at pharmaceutical marketers that analy  [...]

For Better or Worse, Demand Media's Plans Tied to Google

Demand Media is beginning to move toward its initial public offering - which could well be the biggest web IPO this year. The company filed a S-1 disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission - the first step in this process. Criticized by some as a content mill, Demand Media's business strategy produces online content for the purpose of attracting keyword advertising. The company's algorithms look at what search words are most popular, and then pays writers to produce content for s  [...]

Top Toolkit News: Lyris' real-time conversion and revenue tracking

E-Mail Marketing Lyris has released a real-time conversion and revenue tracking tool as part of its HQ application that allows marketers to view how visitors respond to e-mail and site content while tracking campaign results in real-time. The tool provides data on a campaign's visitors, click-throughs, conversions and revenues generated by specific e-mail. Market Research Ma  [...]

Top Toolkit News: Web Analytics TV

Web Analytics Google has been periodically producing a web series called Web Analytics TV. Hosted by Avinash Kaushik and Nick Mihailovski, the duo ask viewers to vote on their favorite web analytics questions, which they then answer. Recent subjects include how to track un-subscriptions with negative values; best practices tracking social media; sources of keywords outside of Paid   [...]

Virgin Gives Free Tickets to 'Influencial' Tweeters

Virgin America is turning to Twitter again to market its latest destination, Toronto. Unlike an earlier foray on Twitter, this time the airline is being a little more selective about who is getting the offer. Virgin America has teamed up with Klout,  a start up that "identifies influencers across the social web" to find the most likely Twitter users to give away free tickets from San Francisco or Los Angeles  [...]

Tuesday's Toolset Watch

Analytics Google has introduced AdWords Campaign Experiments, or ACE in beta: a tool that tests and measures changes to keywords, bids, ad groups and placements. Users can execute the experimental campaign alongside the original campaign, testing such scenarios as the incremental impact of adding new keywords to a campaign or changing keyword and ad group-level bids  [...]

Tuesday's Toolset Watch

Measurements & Analytics Google has added new privacy features to its analytics applications, according to a blog post by Posted by Amy Chang, director of Product Management, including a Google Enhanced Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The opt-out gives users with a choice of whether information about website visits is collected by Google Analytics. It also stops da  [...]

Too Intrusive? Too Conservative? Here's How Promoted Tweets Can Work

Twitter has introduced - partially, with more details to follow - its long-awaited path to monetization. Called Promoted Tweets, the ad platform lets advertisers bid on keywords on a CPM basis. The ad shows up in a related search but remains fixed so it doesn’t disappear in a torrent of Tweets. Users will only ever see one Twitter ad at a time, which will retain all the functionality of a regular Tweet including replying, retweeting, and favoriting,   [...]

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4 Tricks to Battle Banner Ad Blindness

The display ad industry may be a $20 billion business with such giants as Yahoo and Google throwing millions at its development, but it has yet to solve a fundamental problem: consumers have learned long ago to ignore banner ads. The industry has a name for the problem - banner blindness - and even such luminaries as Google's Neal Mohan, vice president of product management, has referred to it at industry events. "Consumers have really learned to ignore all the banner ads they see on the I  [...]

Local Reviews Gold for Advertisers - If They Have a Plan in Place for the Disgruntled

Smart Momma, a baby gear and gifts retailer, started tracking visitors to its site when it did a redesign in 2008 - which was also around the same time that it started using an online reputation management company, Ratepoint. According to owner Heather Burns, the site’s visitors increased threefold from June 2008 to June 2009. From December 2008 to December 2009, visitors increased by 16%. Revenues increased more than 100% from all of 2000 to all of 2009.   [...]

CitySearch, OrangeSoda JV to Offer Local SEO

Local online media site Citysearch and SEO provider OrangeSoda are partnering to provide a marketing tool that marries their respective strengths. The new product, CityGrid Complete, is an extension of City Grid - an online ad network focused on local content that launched in January. "Every search engine has introduced local directory listings prominently in their   [...]