Tag Archives: advertising

Advertising approaches

I recently watched the PBS documentary, art and copy. it’s a feature about advertising focusing mostly on the big agencies and agency personalities. absolutely fascinating. partly because these are big personalities but mostly because the campaigns featured are ones almost … Continue reading

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Facebook limited by ad budgets

Facebook’s new releases and plans were the talk of the week In the tech industry (by the way, not the only industry that matters!). Probably for good reason. Facebook’s size and growth is very impressive and the service is obviously … Continue reading

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Local Advertising Algo Follow Up

Nice write up from my friend, Florent, about Foursquare API being used to create location heatmaps. This is precisely the location behavior data I was talking about in my post the other day. You see in his heatmap I know … Continue reading

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No, really why advertising is failing online…

Update 3/29/09: Danny Sullivan correctly pointed out to me that he is a publisher and an advertiser.  I’ll disagree on the idea that he is a “real user”, by which I meant “regular user”, because he is not nor I … Continue reading

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Internet Traffic Funnel – Where do you want to be?

Failure to understand how users and money flow through the Internet costs media and etailers a lot of money every day.  There are huge misconceptions about where the “value” actually lives for user data, advertising performance and profit margins on … Continue reading

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Watch the Watchers – Ask.com and Privacy Policies in the Future

Look, folks, there’s no such thing as privacy. Not on the internet, not in your home, not at work. As long as you are connected, in any way, to others, you are tracked and counted and watched. It’s not always … Continue reading

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