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CPC Marketing Firm Bardon Advisors Acquired

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Los Angeles-based Bardon Advisors , a cost-per-click (CPC) search and affiliate marketing firm, has been acquired by New York-based MediaTrust. Bardon Advisors was founded by Keith Cohn, who was previously President and CEO of Vendare Media, which was backed by Idealab and other venture firms.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category.