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The Case for In-Stream Advertising

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I know that advertising is important to inform consumers of offers – the same reason many tech companies use SEM. John Batelle profiles this well in his book The Search. Think about this – bands and stars helped bring people by the millions to MySpace. GRP Partners invested in GoTo.com which rebranded as Overture.

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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. When we tune into any stream: Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc., Thus, we click!