Marketers have made improvements in attribution modeling to determine how online video, search, social, display ads, mobile and other media contribute to sales or the awareness of a brand. A lack in continuous innovations could have platform providers, search engines, publishers and social sites fighting for ad dollars. Not to bring those offline ad dollars online, but among online media, publisher sites, and social networks. ...Read the whole story
The site, which crawls the web for product listings on other sites aggregates from a very long-tail of some 500,000 online stores in North America, from the Googles and Amazon's of the world down to mom and pop stores with online shopping carts. ...Read the whole story
Google has been sued for allegedly copying portions of its video chat platform from the company Be In, which offers its own video chat program, CamUp. ...Read the whole story
Today, I want to talk about the last of the three posts by Harvard Business Review bloggers, Karen Freeman, Patrick Spenner and Anna Bird I have been surveying: "Three Myths about What Customers Want." Specifically, I want to look at this post's implications for online marketing. ...More
With more and more free analytics and sharing tools available from publishers, the number of tracking elements per page grows as well. What started as a privacy discussion is evolving into concerns about data leakage and performance. ...More
Google knows just a wee bit about display ads and a wee bit about video ads. But how do the two mediums play together? ...More