Are brand advertisers dwelling on the wrong metric?

… end, Eyeblaster came up with a new metric, the "dwell rate", which is calculated by … . While dwell rate and dwell time metrics aren't immediately going to replace the … increasingly important to consider a variety of metrics in an effort to obtain the broadest …

Q&A: Web metrics magician Jim Sterne

… and major resources. What can I do with metrics for my ecommerce site that's selling, say … Wait a minute! We need to do Web metrics, and to understand everybody else job in the … you." Q: Let's talk social media metrics, given social's what's on everyone's …

Microsoft wants more traditional media metrics on the web

… Atlas Institute, wrote that online advertisers ignore traditional media metrics for three reasons: arrogance, ignorance and fear. According … the medium's intense measurability, click-throughs are a metric that works with search — where users are likely to …

IAB bows social media metrics

… Not ads. Yet many of the IAB's social media metrics will sound familiar to anyone involved in online advertising or … visits, downloads...that stuff just plain makes sense. Yet other metrics related to conversations generated by blog posts, for example, …

New metrics and business models for digital publishing - selling outcomes not inputs?

… corresponding increase in recent agonisation over metrics. Should we make the most of … unique user? Data, data everywhere... The metrics challenge has been furthered mired … , sales, measurable shifts in brand metrics etc.  Ultimately, it must surely …

Metrics and measurement crucial for Online PR in 2009

… A key part of this is understanding how to use metrics effectively in order to measure success. However, an ongoing … your brand and co-ordinating customer communication at every touchpoint. Metrics such as improvements in search can be an effective way …

Social media's metrics problem

… . Let's look at the metrics that matter most: Usage. If social … consensus on this and seemingly simple metrics like 'registered users' have, interestingly, … of any new advertising medium. Without metrics, advertisers obviously have no way …

Q&A: Dennis Mortensen on Yahoo Analytics

… the back end, to deploy some sort of predictive modeling. I should know that next week will look like this for these metrics - or a least have a decent prediction. We'll be seeing a lot more predictive analytics. After that automation will sneak into the …

How NOT to be The Social Media Guru

… social media, focus on specifics: goals, objectives, milestones, metrics. Example: Goals: boost your company's social media … meetings with staff twice a month through July. Metrics: followers/friends/fans, interactions between staff and customers, …

Load time: coming soon as a Google ranking factor?

… to ensure that you're taking advantage of it and not getting penalized. Like other ranking factors, page load time is an important metric to be looking at anyway. If your website is a tortoise, chances are you're already losing out in the form of reduced …

Q&A: Pluck's Stephanie Himoff on social media for publishers

… for a publisher to increase key site metrics. Social media functions like comments can increase … more page views and boost engagement metrics, something that is important for any … announcement that this is its preferred metric. What do you think are the …

IAB: Media companies need to make a "triple play" for digital business

… and adapting to the medium. There is an excess of undifferentiated, low-cost inventory. There's an overabundance of metrics, but they don't measure what brand marketers want. Media companies lack ideas, strategic expertise and engagement in the …

Q&A: Silence Media's Lee Henshaw on CPE v CPM

… From this came the idea of an agency which offered banner advertising on a CPE basis, as I had used this as a media buying metric in the past. If the economy was going to be as difficult as predicted at the time, then I felt that video banner advertising …

Twitter's new retweet feature paves the way for more commercial usage

… usage of the service. "Retweets potentially reveal very interesting data," Williams writes.  Indeed, the feature provides a metric to rank tweets and subsequently the results of Twitter searches and Twitter users themselves. Twitter could sell this …

Q&A: Julian Sambles on the Telegraph's social media strategy

… we do. How do you measure social media success? What are the key metrics that you keep an eye on? We measure our customer engagement through various metrics both globally and locally as well as looking at the customer path both …