Microsoft is definitely serious about becoming an advertising play on the web. Their $6 Billion acquistion of aQuantive, an online advertising and marketing company, was just the first in a series of steps they plan on taking in this arena.
MS’ adCenter Labs lies at the heart of a lot of these future initiatives and is [...]
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by donmimi83 (mostly away )
In an interesting story from the WSJ.com, RE/MAX is using data from Cox Communications DVRs to track viewer watching patterns and figure out where to place their advertisements.
Using a new process that taps into data from cable set-top boxes, RE/MAX found that, along with home-improvement shows, those households were also likely [...]
This one is for all the creative types out there. (Warning: Some language is NSFW)
(h/t Advertising Ourselves to Death)
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by Simon T
Tech pundit Om Malik writes that the slowdown in the housing sector, and the greater uncertainty in the U.S. economy as a whole, is likely going to have an impact on advertising spending. I’ve been saying the same thing for a while (see What the Subprime Mess Means for Real Estate 2.0) [...]
Recently, I’ve thinking about tweaking this blog’s advertising strategy (see Blogvertising: The Decision to Add Ads to Your Blog) by bringing new advertisers on board at FOREM and deep-sixing the Google Ads I’ve been running lately. Why? I’m starting to doubt AdSense’s supposed contextual relevance as I’m starting to see more and more truly bizarre [...]
The rush to get content onto computer screens (see WellcomeMat - The Killer App for Real Estate Video) doesn’t mean that there haven’t been significant advance in the way a real estate professional can market themselves on that other small screen, the television.
Google announced today it’s bringing its AdWords advertising platform to television advertising. Partnering [...]
Second Life (SL) is like World of Warcraft - they are products largely driven by virtual communities that have very quickly developed its own meta universes. They’re also kind of like twitter (you can follow me here) - I don’t really get it.
But I’m probably alone here. Thousands, if not millions of people are using [...]
With all the talk this week of the new online advertising options for Realtors (see John Cook’s HouseValues, HomeGain and Zillow for a good rundown), I thought I would zig as everyone else figuratively zags (or is it that I’m zagging while they’re zigging…), and talk about an interesting new way to take some of [...]
Last week, my local Yellow Pages was dropped off at the end of my driveway. It was still there this morning, abandoned and soaking wet after a weekend of pounding rain.
I can’t even remember the last time I flipped open a phone book.
These days, my instinct is to go straight to the Internet to find [...]
