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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. I believe that many social networks confused this idea.

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Twitter Networks are Different than Social Networks

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They “don’t care what people ate for lunch.&# They’re fine on their existing social networks, which these days mostly means they’re happy with Facebook. Traditional social networks are more restricted to people whom I already know and information and updates are less discoverable.

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Demand Media Buys Two Firms, Renews Google Ad Deal

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According to Demand Media, it acquired IndieClick , a Los Angeles-based online advertising company, and also acquired RSS Graffiti , another Los Angeles firm developing social media products for Facebook. IndieClick was headed by Peter Luttrell, and RSS Graffiti by Ryan Hoffman. READ MORE>>.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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Coull Entrepreneurs Get More Customers

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Coull Offers Advertisers Video Skimlinks. Apologies: an incomplete draft of this article was inadvertently sent out previously via RSS. A UK startup, Coull (pronounced “cool”), allows advertisers to create and embed such contextually revelvant ads within their existing video assets.

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Holy Viral Attribution, Batman! Why Social Gets to Win

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James’ speech carefully tracks the progress of social advertising or lack thereof through the six movies in the Batman franchise released during his lifetime. When a message is spread not only across your network but the networks of everyone who is influenced to act on the message, things get very big very fast. Share and Enjoy.

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Combustion Matters More Than Scale

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Advertising - "We will monetize our customers via online ads.". • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. Virality - "Our virality quotient will be extreme because our users will be highly inclined to share their experience with others.".

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