article thumbnail

Hydra Acquired By Adknowledge

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based Internet advertising firm Hydra , which operates a cost-per-acquisition affiliate advertising network, has been acquired by Adknowledge , Adknowledge said this morning. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Tags: hydra adknowledge merger acquisition affiliate advertising. READ MORE>>.

CPC 178
article thumbnail

Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

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. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Not necessarily in the shopping mindset.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How Mobile Is Changing Oversee's Business, With Debra Domeyer

socalTECH

To give you some numbers, we now have a network of 230 million unique visitors per month, and over 20 percent of that is mobile. As you know, Oversee is known for our traffic and traffic acquisition tools, but we're now also focusing on creating compelling, consumer products fueled by our accelerator services.

Mobile 224
article thumbnail

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

socalTECH

We were limited to using products on the market, and we found that all of them were really designed for advertising networks and marketplaces using a traditional, affiliate model. Companies need a way to roll up all that data, and understand their cost of customer acquisition in a detailed way. It''s a problem for everyone.

article thumbnail

Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. Ultimately, your overall customer acquisition costs should calculated as an average of a variety of marketing channels. Thus, include these unattributed customers in your overall calculation of customer acquisition costs. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

Custom 164
article thumbnail

Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

socalTECH

We've built some social curation tools, which use social signaling--tweets, clickthroughs, or comments on Facebook--and take what the network is deciding are important stories, and highlighting those and moving them further up on our site, so that the important stories on any given day are being highlighted. Robert Flynn: Yes. at that time.

Startup 162
article thumbnail

Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

He presented a system where your search results would be ranked based on companies bidding for placement and where merchants would be charged on a “cost per click” basis (CPC). With all of those companies gobbled up the market is now focused on the next generation startups like TasteMade, MiTu Network, StyleHaul and so forth.