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  • Affiliate Program Success Or Failure Starts Here

    There are thousands of Programs, each one vying for the support and loyalty of Affiliates. If at any time an Affiliate is unhappy with your Program they will quite simply walk away, welcomed with open arms by your competitors.

  • Consolidation – A Giant Collapses

    As the Online advertising industry grows dramatically and we see continuing articles of projections and growth, the question is are you aware of the immense changes that are occurring simultaneously at a pace almost to fast to track?

  • Chicago Ad Tech – The

    Ad Tech Chicago was a very well put together conference. The intimate size allows for more one on one time for deal making and exploring new businesses. I tend to find Chicago the most rewarding of the Ad Techs in terms of both deal…

  • Digital Thoughts – A Crash Course in the Vendor Landscape – Part 1

    This past Monday, Cliff Kurtzman, from Online-Ads, and I gave a presentation during Ad:Tech Chicago 2005 called, “A Crash Course on the Digital Marketing Vendor Landscape,” a talk that tried to untangle what some of those even in our space…

  • Digital Thoughts – A Crash Course in the Vendor Landscape – Part 2

    The first half of the newsletter version of “A Crash Course in the Vendor Landscape” covered the display ad network space and three areas that overlapped with it – ad serving, contextual / behavioral ad providers, and adware. We also covered ad rep firms…

  • Chaos Theory

    The flapping of a single butterfly’s wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done

  • Digital Thoughts – Legal victory for WhenU

    This year, one topic in our industry has arguably drawn more attention than almost any other. From its effectiveness for advertisers, to its ability to frustrate consumers, as well as its almost disproportionate influence on the yearly internet advertising ecosystem, adware stands, for better or worse, in a league of its own

  • Trends Report – Microsoft and Claria

    When both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal choose to a cover a topic, chances are it is a press worthy story. On the rare instances that they cover a story that involves our industry, it generally focuses on growth and the size of the market.

  • CVS Addresses Loyalty Card Security Breach

    Drugstore chain CVS discontinued a pharmacy-tracking service for its ExtraCare cardholders after a consumer privacy watchdog group found a way to access sensitive purchase data. The service let cardholders with flexible spending accounts (through their …

  • Shopper Friendly

    While they may be expert at store layout and catalog design, many retailers slip up when designing the shopping experience for customers visiting their