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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly And if even 1% of users click on the ads because they’re relevant rather than on the organic search it’s a HUGE business (as you know). Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation.

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