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 sponsors blowing hot air, lots of chatter about advances in ad network platform technology, (see Rubicon Project news) and industry parties echoing the decadence of the ’80s

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 heads in agreement. We hope this is the day. We have been listening to a lot of our clients talk

The push to develop online advertising effectiveness metrics beyond counting clicks is admirable. Necessary actually.  View-through tracking, Dwell, and the aforementioned mutant offspring of GRPs are examples. And they all efforts to make measuring online more like measuring TV. (And, we suspect, a gambit to make digital pricing more like TV pricing as well). But

Count clicks. Watch pixels fire. See confirmation pages load. The end

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 and hucksters co-inhabit a dusty, cramped patch of gold-rich land that fuels dreams, hopes and dog-eat-dog ambitions. HBO’s acclaimed western series Deadwood springs to mind. A place bursting

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, GlibHippo’s Account Manager (AM) is responsible and accountable for the planning and execution of marketing efforts, and tracking / reporting for key accounts. In addition, the AM has overall

The click is not just the wrong measure for branding. It’s the wrong measure for performance as well. In a great piece about the inadequacy of the click as a metric, Gregory Dale, COO of comScore details how click counting is the wrong way to measure the success of an awareness campaign: “Don’t use clicks

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 in cash and stock. Following the purchase of flash game platform company Mochi Media by Shanda Interactive Entertainment last year, this deal confirms the growing effectiveness of vertical ad

Deloitte’s Mark Casey spoke at the fourth annual Global Trends on Consumer Media Preferences and Behaviours saying online advertising doesn’t work according to an article in BusinessDay. In his presentation, Mark gets to the heart of the problem but misses the point. “Until now, companies have focused a lot of resources on online advertising —

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, then the blame lies squarely with the advertising industry itself. And the reason is simple. The advertising industry, historically, exists to service the three legacy pillars: TV, print, radio.