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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. One recession later and the US advertising market is about $245 billion – but still only 10-12% is online and measurable. And it turns out that we click a lot.

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CampaignEQ's William Belk On Ads, Algorithms, and Attribution

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William Belk and Dirk McGregor were both early employees at Beachmint, who saw how difficult it was to track the lifetime value and marketing attribution of their advertising spend. To figure that out, they started building tools to help them sort out Beachmint''s advertising efforts. What''s the story behind CampaignEQ?

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How To Make Money Like Facebook With Online Ads

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It helps to understand how online advertising really works. For the advertiser, this is the cost-per-click (CPC) model. The goal is for your visitor to be redirected to the site or product being advertised. Advertisers see this as cost per impression (CPI) or cost per mille (CPM).

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Savings.com: The California Internet Tax Law and Unintended Consequences

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However, if we were just providing clicks, using the CPC model, they wouldn't be affected. It might be that we'll be able to enter into CPC relationships with some of those advertisers, in which case the law will not apply. Thanks for helping to illuminate the issue here, and good luck. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Tim Cadogan, OpenX

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Among one of the fastest growing industries--despite what has been a stagnant economy--is Internet advertising, which has continued to grow strongly over the past two years. For today's interview, we spoke with Tim Cadogan , CEO of OpenX, to hear more about the firm's growth on the strength of Internet advertising, and what the firm is up to.

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

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Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. it provides complete transparency in how much advertisers are paying, how much Burstly takes and what your revenue is. I’ll explain in detail below.

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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

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Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. At that time, monetizing by advertising didn't exist, and web developers were having to hand roll those experiences. Robert Flynn: Yes.

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