We are all aware of the uproar incited when Mozilla announced that it was releasing a patch that would effectively block third party cookies for their users. Mozilla is doing this, it claims, because users are scared of companies tracking their whereabouts and are crying out for better privacy protection.
But a browser company that owns 30 percent of the browser market has a greater responsibility to the industry they operate in than to just the user. Mozilla is ignoring a huge portion of these parties. I really believe that the company feels that they are working on behalf of their users, but I also don’t think Mozilla realizes all of the touch points that they are operating within. The user is the main party they interface with, but the Firefox browser interfaces with the web, and there are a number of parties involved beyond just the User. Let’s take a look at those parties.
Meet the surfer: The surfer, or “the user,” as many like to call this constituent, is the innocent person who traverses the web, day in and day out, reading this and purchasing that, watching that video and looking at this friend’s latest pictures or update. The surfer... Read more
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Why Mozilla Needs To Look Beyond Users Alone
Tags: advertising, Data, online advertising, Privacy, publisher, rtb, Safety, Semantic
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Digital Strategy Step 4: Optimization
Step 4 of digital strategy is optimization, the ongoing process of improving your relevance, targeting and campaign quality to get the most out of every dollar spent.
Tags: brolik, content marketing, content strategy, Digital Marketing, facebook marketing, Facebook strategy, jason brewer, online advertising, online marketing
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Monetization More Valuable than YouTube Views
We’ve all seen our fair share of websites where the publisher’s primary video player was a YouTube player, and it’s easy to understand why. YouTube is free, can be quickly embedded, and tracks audience views. Either you’re a publisher that doesn’t own any video content and you’re simply embedding videos from someone else’s channels, or you’re the producer who uploaded the video and you want a simple video solution for your own properties.
Tags: OneScreen, onescreen.com, online advertising, online video, video ad, video advertising, video platform, video player, youtube
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The Panel I’d Like to See: Shaking Up the Digital Media Conference
I don’t know about you, but the last three conferences I’ve attended have had eerily similar programming slates. I’m not naming names, but if I see another “Is Content Really King” or “RTB, DSP, CPE – Drowning in a Sea of Acronyms” panel, it’s going to make my eyes and ears bleed. In the interest of adding a little levity to our industry, I’ve put together a list of panels I’d love to see an adventurous programming director include in their next conference:
1 year? 6 months? 3 months? How low can you go?
Join us as a top HR Director, Recruiter, VP of Sales and Agency Group Director debate just how short a job stint can be before it affects your career in Digital Media.
The Dos and Don’ts of Entertaining
Take a walk on the wild side with some of the best-known sales professionals on the digital party circuit as they give their “rules of the game.” Sellers of both sexes give their tried and true mantras for thriving and surviving during a long night out entertaining. Do flirt, don’t sleep; Do sip, don’t gulp; talk shop only if “shop” means late night karaoke. This panel could get crazy! We certainly hope... Read more
Tags: advertising, agency sales, buyer experience, content marketing, content strategy, Digital Marketing, Facebook, google, online advertising, Sales, social marketing, Social Media, Video
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The 'Hidden' Marketing Channel: Performance Marketing
The release today of a major report on the growth of the online performance marketing (OPM) industry in the United Kingdom represents a seminal moment for this young industry. The facts and figures it provides are evidence enough that performance marketing is here to stay; that it is a mature, growing online marketing channel that provides significant value to advertisers and publishers.
As Chris Johnson of A4U details in an excellent analysis of the IAB / PwC OPM study, the affiliate marketing industry in the U.K. has been valued (alongside lead generation) as a £9 billion ($1.43 billion) revenue generating industry.
Key Highlights (courtesy of A4U)
There are c. 3,000-4,000 advertisers and c. 10,000 publishers actively engaged in Online Performance Marketing in the U.K. (in this instance — Affiliate & Lead Generation).
Advertisers expected to spend (through commissions, management fees, bonuses and other marketing spend) £814 million on Online Performance Marketing in 2012, generating c. £9 billion of sales for advertisers.
This spend was achieved through at least c.100 million transactions and an additional c. 70 million leads generated.
This is equivalent for c. 7-9% of U.K. digital marketing spend, and drives c. 5-6% of retail e-commerce in the U.K.
The largest end-sectors include Finance, Retail, Telecoms & Media, Travel... Read more
Tags: A4U, affiliate marketing, digital media, IAB, online advertising, online marketing, online performance marketing, performance marketing
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