CPM often sucks but why kill it?

… many of Bonnie's complaints about CPM advertising, advertisers vote with their wallets … and selling advertising inventory online. Yet CPM is still here. Which makes … . There are significant differences in CPM pricing between verticals, site categories, …

We know CPM advertising sucks but what are you going to do about it?

… , Gupta argues that the reason a CPM-based advertising model doesn't work on … and thinking." He goes on: "The CPM model asks, 'What is the content on … As one commenter pointed out: "Given that CPM on a clickthrough and impression basis has …

Marketing attribution in practice: how it works and how to do it

… an attribution model So, let’s tackle CPM and CPC channels first. Awarding ‘credit’ … just that ‘rectified’ conversion data for their CPM & CPC channels – based on the tags that … of the time depending, as with the CPM/CPC campaigns, on how you prefer to …

TV Everywhere has a lot to learn from Hulu. Not that it will listen.

… The Simpsons now earns a higher CPM on Hulu than on FOX. Advertisers … get 4.5 times my TV CPM online [the cost to advertisers to … nobody's getting four times TV CPMs online. Nobody at Hulu's getting twice the TV CPMs. If people who already watch the show …

Microsoft: in-game advertising is doing great

… is easy, effective metrics for tracking results are readily available and CPM pricing is "in line with cable TV rates for young demographics … often aren't worth the paper they're printed on. "CPMs in line with cable TV rates for young demographics" doesn' …

Is the display ad market picking up?

… , CEO of Whiskey Media, thinks we should kill off the CPM entirely. He wrote from TechCrunch last week: "At some point, … to change with display advertising. Whether online ads are measured by CPM, CPA, CPC or some completely different metric, as people go …

A Bill of Rights for online advertisers?

… click in the sequence. The harm is particularly acute when the first advertiser spent big money—perhaps buying thousands of CPM impressions—to find the rare user interested in an obscure subject. His argument: the data collected from campaigns should …

Q&A: Jay Stevens of the Rubicon Project on display advertising

… or audience sales representative. Publishers should be getting higher CPMs for these placements than they typically are. Are there any … of inventory are the two main issues dragging down publisher CPMs. But I think a lack of sales channel management ( …

Q&A: Zephrin Lasker of Pontiflex on lead gen vs. behavioral targeting

… is catching up with the nature of the Internet. Cost per thousand (CPM) never really made sense. It’s just where we started. But … front page of The New York Times could be sold on a CPM basis. However, within more targeted parts of a site, the publishers …

Sponsored Tweets: a case study in Twitter marketing fail

… saw the tweet once, Kmart's CPM was over $4. That's quite … . Which means an even higher CPM. If we assume, for instance, … 15,000 impressions ('tweet views'), the CPM for Kmart's text ad would … And if we assume that the CPM of the @shoemoney tweet was closer …

Blip.tv: It's all about the distribution

… to be profitable for blip. According to TechCrunch, the video startup currently gets a high ad rate (an average $10 to $20 CPM), but YouTube gets 6.6 billion streams a month and its users are uploading 20 hours of videos every 60 seconds. Blip estimates …

Can the Grey Lady sell display ads to hyperlocal businesses?

At the introductory price of $5 CPM, it sounds like a bargain. … s still cheap advertising when the CPM climbs to $8 and $12 after … , rye, or whole wheat" than "CPM or PPC?" is potentially an equally … who still don't know what "CPM" means). You can just bet the …

Google tells newspapers how to disappear completely

… shifted to the advertisers, but the publishers actively encouraged it to happen. They just didn’t care enough, and that’s why CPM rates have fallen so far, and why many media buyers remain lazy creatures that do not look beyond the numbers programmed into …

Two ideas to solve two problems – paid content and multi-channel marketing

… Google splits that 50:50 with the publisher? £600k is the equivalent of, what, 60 million page views monetised at £10 CPM for ads.  Might this be a way for publishers to monetise content and for Google to make *even more* money, including monetising its …

Q&A: Lance Stewart on developing the Tube Exits iPhone app

… so I think it's good value for users. Do you have advertising on the lite version? We do, while most apps work on a CPM model, we were working from a standing start and I knew we were unlikely to have enough users to justify this. I thought that a better …