What is online marketing attribution?

A layman’s explanation of marketing attribution – the process by which advertisers can share credit and commissions across different channels rather than just pay on the last click – for Netimperative It’s called: Online marketing attribution – even this requires common sense

TV v internet – ad spend figures compared

I performed a very brief analysis on the ad spend figures reported in the IAB’s recent H1 ’09 announcement, in which it claimed online had overtaken TV. Thinkbox – the TV industry’s trade body – had been robust in its defence, quite rightly to some degree. But my analysis shows that, when you compare the [...]

Twitter’s AdWords is coming…

Extract: “No, what’s most interesting and the reason I think investors are going to get all of their money back and a whole lot more is the idea of e-commerce accounts. Twitter CEO Evan Williams told Techcrunch last Summer that charging e-commerce businesses per follower, per update or per sale [or per click?] was a possibility. In [...]

The recession so far…

Extract: “The joy – if joy is the right word – of last night’s panel session, which I chaired for Chinwag Live on the topic of ‘Advertising woes’, was that it was a first opportunity to hear what the actual effects of our long-awaited slump have been on the digital sector so far and therefore how 2009 [...]

Brand v response – the false debate

Extract: “Through mechanisms like click-to-call and click-to-SMS, we can enable potential customers to do something fast and easy that, for us, generates a valuable lead and, for them, is just a step further in a journey they’ve already started. Why hold them up?” Full post at Mediaweek.co.uk

Mobile will have to take yet another ad break

Extract: ‘Trying to view mobile [phones] as an ad channel in the first place is of course a mistake. In fact, the internet (whether web, email, IPTV, whatever) in general isn’t much cop at ‘advertising’. As a marketing channel it’s the absolute business. But, because of its on-demand nature, its real strength is in only [...]

Top five New Year’s resolutions… for digital

Extract: “1.       Get into shape For digital, that means redundancies. No digital media owner, agency or advertiser, particularly if they have US paymasters, is likely to end the year with more staff than it started. But, it’s an opportunity for those businesses to assess the parts of their business that deliver real value. The worry is [...]

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