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Captured: Inventory Extension

Sites such as YouTube illustrate the challenges of ad matching well. Some incredible technologies have been developed that help tremendously, behavioral targeting being one. I have always liked what behavioral targeting...

Calling Dr. Google

Reports surfaced a few weeks ago indicating that Web users were relying on the Internet for answers to their medical queries and concerns. A report titled “Online Health Search 2006” was released by the Pew Internet & American Life...

Online Courses Growing, For Better or For Worse

Regardless of the disapproval from some academic officials, online learning is a phenomenon that is continuing to grow quickly and does not look like it will dissipate any time soon. New figures released by the College Board in...

FTC Raises Fist Against ERG Ventures

About a week after Zango settled with the Federal Trade Commission for $3 million concerning its adware installation procedures, the FTC has its eyes set on a similar battle with ERG Ventures and Timothy P. Taylor, one of its...

AD:TECH: A Collision of Marketing and Technology

Ad:tech is not the place to sell or pitch, but to inform and share the happenings of the fifteen billion dollar Interactive Marketing and Advertising Industry. The three-day conference and two-day expo in New York City was dedicated to the...

Lead Quality:

A few months ago, I was talking about the state of online lead quality with the head of performance marketing for one of the top interactive agencies. I asked him to sum up his view on the type of relationship that lead sellers and buyers...

Evolution of the Quality Score – Part 1

A little more than a week ago, beginning November 6, 2006, Google unveiled its fourth Quality Score announcement. If you don’t advertise on Google, this might not mean to much to you, but if you do advertise on Google, especially if...

Evolution of the Quality Score – Part 2

With the Quality Score, Google has found a masterful way to make more money from its advertisers in the name of more relevant ads. As an advertiser, it comes down to one thing, the higher the Quality Score, the lower the actual...