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5 Reasons Why Digital Marketing Will Thrive in the Recession

From Dot Bomb to Dot Boom
Let’s face it. The economy is taking on the distinctive, sickly pallor of a post Mardi Gras Keith Richards.
Generally, recessions hit the advertising business with the ferocity of a rabid wolverine, and the last one trimmed overall ad spending by 9% according to market researchers Veronis Suhler Stevenson. The wolverine [...]

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Ad Networks Are a House of Cards – But a Great Deal

A groundbreaking study by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and Bain & Company shows that ad networks’ share of display ad sales soared from 5% to 30% from 2006-2007. (Read the excellent full report here)
It seems the rise in Internet advertising (~20% per year, according to eMarketer) is creating a flurry of new sites, and a [...]

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It Knows If You’ve Been Bad or Good: A Guide To Behavioral Targeting Internet Ads

Internet advertising is an orgy of choice. There are literally tens of thousands of potential sites on which an ad could be placed, and dozens of different ad sizes and formats. Add a variety of pricing schemes and an often inexperienced sales force, and you get a casserole  of confusion that makes buying radio or [...]

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