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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.

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Search Engine Ranking Can Make Or Break Your Business

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Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is just buying advertising for your business. In this context, there are many parameters and concepts you need to understand before you buy advertising: Cost per impression (CPI). Cost per click (CPC). Advertising is all about getting the most results for the least cost.

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Burstly Opens Up Mobile Ad Service

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Los Angeles-based Burstly , the mobile advertising tools firm run by Evan Rifkin, said this week that it has opened up a new way for mobile application developers to sell their own advertising space. Tags: burstly mobile advertising rifkin. Rifkin is the former founder of Tagworld, which he sold to MTVN in 2008. READ MORE>>.

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Hydra Acquired By Adknowledge

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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. Adknowledge said the acquisition will make it the largest affiliate network measured by its CPC and CPA offers. READ MORE>>.

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Nami Media Acquired By TV Broadcaster

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Los Angeles-based Nami Media , a provider of online advertising technology, has been acquired by Providence, Rhode Island-based LIN TV Corp. , Financial terms of the investment and acquisition were not disclosed. a publicly traded operator of 32 broadcast television systems. Nami Media is headed by Alex B. READ MORE>>.

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

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I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). Naturally I’m excited about this investment or I wouldn’t have done it.

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

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Domeyer recently told us how mobile visitors to the web are dramatically changing how Oversee looks at the market, and are pushing the firm to invest more in technology to adapt to mobile users. We're doing targeted advertising, including ads hypertargeted based on geolocation, and also doing local search on specific devices.

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