Ad impressions – pebbles in the hands of fools

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“A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool”. - Joseph Roux Diamonds. Everyone knows the story, they are ess
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Ad Networks and the Duality of Man

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Navigation tabs are not an obvious source of comedy. But on ad network sites there are two tabs that tell a joke that is, well, a joke. Pick a random ad network site and
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Watchout! Legacy media is innovating

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In the US, national TV network CBS, is apparently going to stop using the original pillars of audience segmentation: Age, Sex. Adage reports, CBS Corp. Chief Research Off
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Break me off a piece of that Big Apple

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This week, despite all that extra security and talk of “resistance”, the Hippo  jetted off to AdTech in the Big Apple. Yea, we know .. another show, more spo
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The way we live now

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This post is like a sermon or more like a soapbox, we have always wanted to get up on that little wooden box and have at least one or two people listen and shake their he
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We are all Nielsen families now

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The push to develop online advertising effectiveness metrics beyond counting clicks is admirable. Necessary actually.  View-through tracking, Dwell, and the aforemention
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Scamville strikes again

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Online advertising is like a frontier town in the American West. It is a young settlement perched on the fringes of civilization where miners, fortune seekers, Christians
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Hippo seeks pleasant company to occupy desk in Dusseldorf

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Yup. It’s true. We are looking for THE most hip-hop Account Manager to join us in our Dusseldorf headquarters. Awesomeness to follow. Reporting to the CEO, GlibHipp
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Sony, DirectTV snap up online game network

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CPMStar, one of the leading online games advertising networks, was acquired by GSN, a Sony company, earlier this month. Rumored transaction price was $23 million dollars
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Internet Advertising is Dead. So, You Know. Long Live Internet Advertising.

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In anticipation of Ad:Tech NYC in November, Adweek asks why online advertising still apparently sucks. For branding anyway. If online does, in fact, suck for branding, th
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