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  • DM Pimping Cartoon V7

    Persistent Screamers become comic book creations in the newest addition to the Confidential, DM Pimping. The Web Surfing Sinners get brought to animated life in this weekly cartoon for the online media masses. Click below to get flashed by the prettiest peons and ugliest underbelly of affiliate life.

  • The Blurring of Search and Media

    That Ad:Tech might have felt crowded, overlapping, and utterly confusing – reflects not on the show but the industry. Our industry used to have easily defined boundaries and companies that could fit into independent silos. Like the continents, the…

  • The Ownership of Traffic

    The first half of A Crash Course on the Digital Marketing Vendor Landscape, the basis to last week’s two part Digital Marketing 101, focused on the different types of internet advertising and the companies that operate in them. The second half…

  • Mountain View Accepts Google’s Free Wi-Fi Internet Proposal

    The Mountain View City Council on Tuesday night gave Google the green light to begin building a wireless network in their city, in which the search giant is based. The City Council unanimously ratified a five-year property lease required for the construction…

  • Lew Ranieri has joined ROOT Markets

    Lew Ranieri has joined ROOT Markets, the first financial exchange for consumer leads. As you might know, in the 1980s, as Salomon Brothers’ head of mortgage trading, Ranieri created the trillion dollar mortgage-backed securities market…

  • The $100 Drink of Water

    The Gold Rush is on in China. Companies are running to China faster than gold miners headed out to California back in the 1800’s. In late 1849, the California Gold Rush was in full swing. Because of poor planning, many western-bound 49ers were…

  • Firefox Gets Good News and Google’s Help

    Despite three months of sluggish growth, Firefox is back on its merry way to closing in on the Goliath that is Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

  • DM University: Arbitrage

    If you’ve ever taken an economics class, in all likelihood you’ve come across the term, arbitrage. If you paid attention at all, you’d have learned that arbitrage is the practice of taking advantage of the state of imbalance between two or more market prices for a given product (e.g. currency, apples, leads/RFPs).

  • Lost in Translation

    An extremely useful and exciting aspect of the affiliate marketing on the internet is the ability to reach diverse customers through media that is extremely relevant and localized to their interests.

  • DM Pimping Cartoon V6

    Persistent Screamers become comic book creations in the newest addition to the Confidential, DM Pimping. The Web Surfing Sinners get brought to animated life in this weekly cartoon for the online media masses. Click below to get flashed by the prettiest peons and ugliest underbelly of affiliate life.