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Focus on the funnel

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Using online for response? Stop. Before you create another banner, fix your website first. Channel selection? Banners sets? CTR? When using the Web as a response channel,
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Online advertising’s language problem

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If online wants more brand money it needs to talk like advertising not Wall street. …language can also corrupt thought.  – Orwell Two words never used in adverti
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No Brand is Safe

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Interesting fall out from Rush Limbaugh slut-gate in the US. Advertisers are shocked, shocked to find their brands are running during  controversial programming. One of
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Advertising Technology – Harmless Utopianism or Flim Flam

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Lot of activity in the advertising technology segment over the last few years. Much of it made (in)famous by Mr. Kawja’s chart. What these ad tech companies all see
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Behavioral Targeting – Algorithms as Alchemy

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Of all the algorithmic gee-whizzery currently available to online marketers, behavioral targeting always strikes us as the most dubious tool in the utopian automation kit
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New world. New ideas. And more rules please.

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The president of France spoke last week about bringing the internet to heel at the star-studded eG8 conference he hosted (and, oh yeah, we attended). “We need to ta
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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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Are you designing your campaigns in reverse?

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The second aphorism I learned in advertising, right after the 50% of your marketing budget is wasted blah blah blah was this: If a campaign succeeds, its because the adve
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Facebook ‘Likes’ – I’d buy that for a dollar!

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We were talking about attribution the other day. As one does. Trying to figure out how we might quantify some sort of aggregate effect from our online campaigns and keep
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Awash in Data episode 1

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or Data Data Everywhere and WTF? During ad:tech last week, we had a chat unrelated to the conference about creating engaging cool ass branding campaigns online. Discussio
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