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I’d bet you didn’t realize that for all the hype Google receives for having the greatest search share, Yahoo! still reigns supreme as the most used (trafficked) website. According to comScore latest numbers, Yahoo serves 33.6 billion page views per month easily eclipsing Google’s 28.7 billion. Traditional marketers (or, frankly, savvy marketers who [...]

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ad:tech San Francisco, the interactive advertising and technology conference and exhibition, starts next week at the Moscone Center. The show blends keynote speakers, topic driven panels and workshops to provide us with the tools and techniques needed to keep up and compete. It has, perhaps, the best show floor in the industry making it [...]

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Certainly, one has to have a degree of ego involved with starting one’s own blog, after all, these are my thoughts; thoughts I presume are of interest to someone. Sure, perhaps it isn’t really “ego” but, needless to say, I wouldn’t be doing this if I didn’t hope someone cared and derived a modicum [...]

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For those of you that have been with me a while, you know that I’m a tremendous advocate of performance based marketing. I firmly believe that online marketing is heavily, certainly predominantly, and almost completely analytics driven when done well. We need not as what ad rates well with focus groups or how [...]

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This is old news but I’ve finally had a chance to take a look and I’m enthusiastic about the potential. Google Adsense has integrated YouTube video to bring web sites and publishers a sponsored video service which automatically features relevant videos based on the content of your site.
“A new way to enrich your site [...]

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Things aren’t looking good for social networks. The bandwagon web platform which has everyone starting a new company has proven effective in attracting an audience yet, to add insult to injury (I think it is safe to say Friendster and MySpace have proven retention a challenge - the injury), it seems monetization is still [...]

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Don’t you just love epiphanies? Those brief moments in time when a great idea just hits you. I feel like I had one of those this morning, an opportunity so obvious, it alarms me that ad networks and portals have yet to have stumbled on the idea themselves.
A few days ago I had [...]

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