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Microsoft and Yahoo Losing Search in a BIG Way

The latest search numbers were recently released and it appears that for the month of August once again Microsoft and Yahoo lost market share to Google. What’s worse is that not only are they losing market share in a growing ...READ»

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The Ten Most Common Ways Car Dealers and Automotive Interactive Marketers Waste Their Search Advertising Budgets

The ten most frequent ways car dealers waste their Automotive search marketing budgets based on Ralph Paglia's personal experience and a blog article referenced in an ADM forum comment by Michael Sweigart on November 12, ...READ»

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The Cable Guys

Nick Grouf and David Waxman are using the Internet to overhaul the TV ad business. Advertisers are ecstatic. Ad shops? Not so much.READ»

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Obama's Web

Watching a bit of the DNC rules committee’s (a committee wrapped in a committee, like the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie pop) meeting today on CNN, I discovered yet again that the Democratic race is still not over. It seems that, ...READ»

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An Ad Network Story

When I started Consorte Media I talked a lot about how Hispanic marketing relied on anecdotal evidence as opposed to actual data. Now I have a different story to tell.I started Consorte Media in the closet of my one bedroom apartment ...READ»

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Networks to Advertisers: No Data for You!

Wal-Mart is legendary for providing terabytes of point-of-sale data to marketers like Procter & Gamble and Coca Cola. But when these same marketers want to know how many people watch their commercials, the networks tell them ...READ»

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More Ads, Fewer Interruptions

Remember when TiVo was all about skipping commercials? This week, the DVR pioneer began courting Madison Avenue ad firms with a new feature enabling users to search commercials by topic. That way, TiVo president Tom Rogers told the ...READ»

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Organic search engine optimisation versus Pay per click advertising

Organic search engine optimisation and Pay per click advertising are the two main methods of online marketing.  Both these forms of online marketing are aimed at getting highly targeted visitors to your website by making your ...READ»

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Location Is Everything: 74% of Facebook's 2009 Ad Revenue to Come From Local Ads

Facebook now has 250 million users spanning the globe, but when it comes to serving up ads, the social network is benefiting from a decidedly local approach. Ad research firm Borrell Associates says that of the $310 million in ad ...READ»

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Does This Make Your Hair Stand on End?

Today's Advertising Age has a story about advertisers -- specifically the big carmakers -- pressuring magazines for "product placement." Never mind the euphemisms or the tap-dancing. What they're telling revenue-starved magazines is ...READ»

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Google to Put Ads into Map Street View?

Always on the cutting edge, Google is once again venturing into a new area of tech – virtual real estate, to be exact. Google has obtained a patent to secure advertising space within its Maps Street View feature, opening up a whole new world of internet advertising.READ»

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Intel Display Concept

Concept video for Intel's Digital Signage to display advertising, maps, and sales in retail locations.READ»

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Dr Pepper KISS

Dr. Pepper KISS Super Bowl commercialREAD»

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Commercial Success

Traditional advertising is in deep trouble. Now Yahoo is reinventing the game thanks to ad boss Wenda Millard. And her cooperative approach is winning over Madison Avenue.READ»

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How To Use Mobile Marketing – As a marketer, it is simple and cheap to work with a mobile marketing company. You simply find one

If your goal is to drive revenue and you currently do some marketing, then mobile is one of the easiest tools you will ever use.Say you need to sell more widgets and you currently run some radio commercials. Call us and purchase 5,000 ...READ»

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Can Your Law Firm Afford a High Google Ranking?

A major concern of law firms (mid to large firms as well as sole practicing attorneys) is whether or not they will see a return on their search engine optimization. READ»

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"Buy the Thighmast..." -- ZAP!

Innovation: Ad zapper. Avaliable: Unknown.READ»

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Monetizing Digital Video

A lot of people video blog just because they feel like it. What IS a video blog? or a videoblog or a vlog or.... don't ask! :D There are as many definitions for a video blog as there are _names_ for video blogs. Some people ...READ»

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Online "Will and Grace" Sell Apartments

Product placement in TV and movies has become common practice. The placement may be casual, as when a character drinks a diet Coke while bemoaning their lackluster sex life, or it may be blatant, as when an entire storyline revolves ...READ»

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Fwix Adds Video to Hyperlocal, Bringing Exposure-–and Revenue–-to Vloggers

In a year that wasn't particularly kind to traditional media outlets, hyperlocal news aggregator Fwix hasn't missed a step. In September, the San Francisco-based startup released an API allowing online publishers to add local news ...READ»

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SEO Advertising Is the Direct Route of Paid SEO Marketing

Paid SEO Marketing is best known as pay-per-click (PPC) or pay-per-lead (PPL), and SEO Advertising often takes the form of Google's adwords.google, Bing's advertising.microsoft and Yahoo's advertising.yahoo. While Yahoo and Bing have ...READ»

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The Message Is the Marvel

"Dotcom advertising has launched a creative revolution. It has created a new Renaissance for advertising."READ»

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Is Banner Advertising Still Relevant?

All of the clicks for online ads are derived from a mere 16% of internet users, according to a recent study by comScore. That means, you’re optimizing your ad for that 16% of users — a very small audience to capture. As consumers become more digitally savvy, they are less inclined to click on advertisements. What happens for those business owners that do not have audiences in that...READ»

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Would You Watch Ads for Free Phone Time? Alcatel-Lucent's Optism Is for You

When the subject of mobile advertising comes up, it's usually something to do with the ongoing smackdown between Apple and Google. And now, here comes another player to the arena that's doing it a completely different way--by ...READ»

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Google TV Ads to Offer Targeted Advertising

Google is teaming up with Visible World, a software company that provides customizable TV ads, to make a push into the "addressable TV" space. The partnership hopes to serve consumer-specific ads based on demographic and viewing data ...READ»