Avinash Kaushik on visitor experience optimisation

… , get very good at it but there will be value added insights you can gain from taking your web channel data and … a portfolio based acquisition strategy. So email, direct mail, catalogs, search, banners, social media etc etc all play a important role and it …

Three practical tips for improving your email marketing

… a sale. Did they see a banner advert? Have they done a search … engine activity Comments in Blogs Display ad response rates With search engine activity … knowledge to change your Press Ad or Direct Mail creative. Summary …

Travel: TV and Web work hand in hand

… It’s a highly emotional, brand positioning ad, with slow-motion footage of a … . MyTravel have launched a hard hitting banner campaign proclaiming the "sunshine is on … to be little relationship between the TV ads and the online executations, and few …

The Web Week in Review

… , suggesting opportunities for cross-platform ad messages." Following upon the news that … records business. Google extending InVideo Ads to AdSense Net Google has … to expand the overlay banner and text ads that it uses on …

Microsoft inks ad deal with Facebook

… , Microsoft will start providing Facebook with banner ads and sponsored links later this … , Microsoft said it would sell “graphical ad placements, as well as automated text- … US$900 million for its exclusive ad-sharing deal with Myspace, announced earlier …

Facebook gets into bed with Microsoft

… well as starting to sell ads for the site internationally. Sixty … its rivals, as well as ad networks targeting Facebook's audience … target Facebook’s users with ads. It prompted chief exec Eric … its current deal to supply ads for Facebook in the US …

Behavioural targeting delivers 600% uplift

… Volume and frequency of interactions Ad/creative message at interaction Allowing … a customer Deliver more relevant ads Target at most effective time … search, affiliates, email and display banner advertising. A test of this …

RIP last click wins?

… at the creative impact. Did display banners advertising the Spa drive customers to … deliver a stronger uplift than standard banners? Next I tried to understand how … journeys, strengthen messaging or even adding special offers to improve conversion. …

Bebo bags MSN's ad boss, embarks on major revenue push

… MSN and Yahoo! in the ad space, where they say they … it calls ‘engagement marketing’ – where ad messages are spread virally around … allow users to choose the ads they receive. Echoing comments he … era is over and targeted banners are now a tangential part …

Word of mouth has most influence - Nielsen

… trusted, by 78% of respondents. Traditional media ads fared better than online -  newspaper ads ranked … 49% of respondents. Other types of online ads fared less well - search engine ads scored just 34%, banner ads 26%, while mobile text …

Q&A: TIOTI founder Paul Cleghorn

… build things around – not just slapping banners on things. In the same way … a media buying group and sell ad space around your content directly. … a big change. ----------------------------- Which online video ad formats do you think will …

Interview: Ministry of Sound's Jim Haysom

… consider new technologies.  There are video ad serving technologies that target social network … our audience. However, for longer length ads, clients should look to run with … average click through rate for traditional banner ads is 0.18%.  Most of …

NBC/Fox video site Hulu launches in private beta

… via the site. Formats will include banners alongside the video player, overlays … Hulu intends to show fewer ads than on the equivalent shows on … show roughly two minutes of ads for every half hour of … depend on the type of ads, and whether they can be …

Panorama highlights need for brands to monitor placements

… by highly inappropriate content. I witnessed Disney banners on a soft porn site and … brought the need for advertisers to monitor banner ad placement to the forefront of … any member found to be placing ads onto inappropriate sites. Only buying IASH …

Interview: Timo Soininen, CEO of Sulake

… come in in a way that is respectful. Just flashing banners at them will not work – you have to go … interesting debate about it between boys and girls. They added some very cool stuff to the environment. ---------------------------------------------- …