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  • AOL, CollegeHumor See Big Gains in Online Video in April

    According to The Nielsen Company, more than 141 million unique viewers watched online videos in the U.S. in April, up 1.9 percent from March. AOL Media Network and The CollegeHumor Network were among the big winners.

  • Tablets More Conducive to Online Shopping Than Smartphones

    A recent white paper from the e-tailing group shows that tablet devices are quite friendly for consumers looking to make online purchases. Tablet users not only make more online purchases via their devices than smartphone owners do – they’re more satisfied as well.

  • Mobile Email Viewership Surges 81%

    “Mobile” is a word that seems to affect lots of areas these days, not least of all email. Today’s picture paints a world that includes consumers using tablets and smartphones to access their email, but this doesn’t mean that desktop and webmail experiences are to be ignored. According to Return Path, an inbox…

  • Long-Form Content Has the Highest Video Ad Completion Rates

    According to a report from FreeWheel, which helps entertainment companies scale and syndicate their content, online video consumption seems to be a nice complement to linear television viewing and doesn’t eat into primetime viewing. Also, long-form content sees the highest video ad completion rates…

  • The Edu Conundrum

    If we could, we would like to create a performance marketing index, not one that tries to guess at the total revenues of those running cost per action ads, but one that could truly answer the question of what are the best offers. Each network tends to send out emails suggesting what to run, but knowing that their…

  • The Man. The Myth. The Willms.

    Not long ago we covered the not unexpected but still unpleasant litigation taking place against several in the performance marketing world for their role in facilitating continuity offers, primarily in the health arena, in a manner that the FTC has deemed unacceptable. On that list was one of the largest affiliates. It…

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  • There’s More to an Affiliate Network than the Payout

    When choosing an affiliate network, most novice internet marketers only look at the gross payout for the products they will be promoting. This is a mistake. In order to find success in your online business venture, there are many factors to consider. While payout is important, it is not the end…

  • Extreme Arbitraging?

    If you don’t watch television, there is a good chance you will not have heard of this new show. To learn that it is a reality show probably wouldn’t come as a surprise, though. We watch many shows, reality and non, but certain reality shows we just can’t…

  • Ringtones Redux?

    The words “AdWords policy changes” generally cause any marketers’ anxiety to increase. More often than not, the source of said anxiety comes from the AdWords team’s employment of the adage, “Experience is the hardest teacher. It gives the tests…