Media Buying
- The Incredible Disappearing Web Ads
May 24, 2005 - First came adware, sparking online publishers’ ire for its ability to deliver competitive ads next to or on top of (...) - Random Musings on 10 Years of Online Advertising
Apr 26, 2005 - Last week, DoubleClick released a study, “The Decade in Online Advertising, 1994-2004.” This “milestone” paper and other recent online advertising (...) - Half of Online Media Buyers Don’t Like Media Reps
Mar 29, 2005 - Do you often find yourself wondering, “I have money to spend. Why won’t anyone get back to me?” For those (...) - Contextual Advertising With the Advertiser in Control
Mar 15, 2005 - A session at the recent Search Engine Strategies (SES) conference was “Dealing With Contextual & Other Non-Search Ads.” In it, (...) - Achieve Media Goals Without Reviled Ad Techniques
Jan 18, 2005 - I offered an alternative opinion to Jakob Nielsen’s “The Most Hated Ad Techniques” last column. Feedback ranged from support to (...) - Uses & Benefits of Rich Media In Ad Campaigns
Jul 01, 2004 - Rich media is the use of interactivity or multimedia to give an enhanced experience to a web user. When it’s (...) - Washingtonpost.com Gives Birth to Homepage Marquee Ad Unit
Apr 02, 2004 - Washingtonpost.com, always a forerunner in the web publishing world, today launched its new ad unit, the Homepage Marquee, via its (...) - Microsoft’s MSN Swats PopUp Advertising
Feb 16, 2004 - Super annoying popup and pop-under advertisements may be headed the way of the Dodo, now that Microsoft has decided to (...) - PopUp Ad Service Beats PopUp Blockers
Jan 20, 2004 - A California rich media company has launched the Popstitial, a new way for advertisers and Web publishers to serve popup (...) - Google to Add Email Advertising
Jan 19, 2004 - Google, the Internet search engine and search advertising giant, is rumored to be currently working on an email advertising delivery (...)
Pragmatic, professional advice with no hidden agenda.
![]()
Internet Business Forum
Find out more hereGoogle Knol: The First Real Challenge to Wikipedia?
In the search landscape, Wikipedia has been dominating first page search results on practically any subject for years, and continues to be one of the most authoritative “go to” sites for research and quick fact checking. However, the collective... read more
Solutions for Yahoo (Besides Microsoft’s Money)
This article by Hollis originally appeared in ClickZ on February 12, 2008. Last week, I dealt with the sad occurrence of my father-in-law’s passing. The funeral brought together people from throughout the country because in addition to his... read more
Can User-Selected Advertising Improve Response Rates?
This article by Hollis originally appeared in ClickZ on January 29, 2008. We’re all familiar with ad-supported content models, and even ad-motivated action models (remember those ghastly surf-for-points companies during the dot-com boom... read more

back to top
Subscribe to our blog RSS



