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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. The affiliate networking market alone is about a $2 billion industry now.

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Startups Stick with Organic vs Paid Search Results

Startup Professionals Musings

This cost model is the most like traditional newspaper and television advertising, where advertisers pay for each ad appearance or page-view (impression) on a search result page, even if the user pays no attention. Cost per click (CPC). For Google, this is pay per impression (PPI), or pay per mille (PPM) per thousand impressions.