Video Burst
Campaign Types: Direct vs. Non-Guaranteed
What is Affiliate advertising?
Affiliate advertising is basically an online marketing channel. An advertiser pays a blogger to promote the advertiser s products or services on the blogger's site. There are three main types of affiliate ads: pay-per-click, pay-per-lead and pay-per-sale. Each of these affiliate ad types has one thing in common. They are all performance based meaning you don t earn money until your readers perform an action such as clicking on a link or clicking on a link then purchasing the product on the page to which the link brings them.
Content Targeting
Content targeting is a different form of paid inclusion than the normal keyword based search queries. The difference between content targeting and other forms of paid inclusion is that content targeting involves matching not just keywords that are used in a search query with advertisements, but with matching the actual contents of web pages with search queries.
Ad attribution – DE-Duplication
View-through rate
Viewthrough rate (VTR aka VCR-Video Completion Rate) measures the number of post-impression response or viewthrough from display media impressions viewed during and following an online advertising campaign. Such post-exposure behavior can be expressed in site visits, on-site events, conversions occurring at one or more Web sites or potentially offline:
What PPC Impression Share Really Tells You
Facebook oCPM Bidding
oCPM, or Optimized Cost Per Mille - Allows for bidding based on your desired end goal (objective type). It's used to drive website conversions, specific engagement actions, or app installs. Based on your oCPM bid settings, Facebook will use their algorithm to adjust the ad placement, frequency, and reach that best complements your objective type. This often results in the lowest cost per action (the action being your objective type) compared to CPC & CPM bid types, in many cases.
Defining Behavioral Analytics 2.0
Truview ads
TrueView Video Ads are a family of formats that give viewers choice and control over which advertisers' messages they want to see and when. We charge you only when a viewer has chosen to watch your ad, not when an impression is served. Since you pay only when viewers watch your video ad, you can easily increase or decrease your budget depending on objectives.
Active GRP (Gross Rating Point)
Programmatic and automation – The publishers perspective
Great description by IAB on programmatic variation and methods of buying. Here is an excerpt - "The terms "programmatic", "automation" and "RTB" evoke mean different things to different people. This paper aims to provide clarity, from the publishers' perspective, by outlining four main ways of transacting "programmatically" today. It provides a clear framework for distinguishing between them and highlights other factors commonly associated with each "programmatic"transaction.
Can AOL’s ‘Barbell’ Ad Strategy Save Digital Publishing?
Native advertising
Native advertising is a web advertising method in which the advertiser attempts to attract attention by providing valuable content in the context of the user's experience. Similar conceptually to an advertorial, which is a paid placement attempting to look like an article, a native ad tends to be more obviously an ad while still providing interesting or useful information.[1] The advertiser's intent is to make the paid advertising feel less intrusive and, therefore, increase the likelihood users will click on it
What is the Difference between an Ad Exchange and RTB?
At a high level, one key difference is that an Ad Exchange is a type of business or platform in digital advertising where RTB is a protocol for two digital advertising companies to transact. RTB was created as a protocol to connect the many different platforms of digital advertising namely Ad Exchange, DSP and SSP platforms
Safe Frame
What is Brand Lift?
Ad Networks
An online advertising network or ad network is a company that connects advertisers to web sites that want to host advertisements. The key function of an ad network is aggregation of ad space supply from publishers and matching it with advertiser demand. Also read about the different types of ad networks here
Beginner’s Guide to Google AdSense for Publishers
Trading Desk
Advertising business has used a wall street business model to create a fairer market place for advertisers to find the best value for their ads and exercise more power over where they place their ads. Treading desks were created as a response to the unsuccessful use of online ad networks, which resulted in huge advertising expenses with limited results. Trading desks offer more competitive pricing than the common ad network.
RPM
What is an Agency Trading Desk
This is a great paper defining trading desks, telling you who the big players are and what are the pros and cons of working with a trading desk --- A centralized, service-based organization that serves as a managed service layer, typically on top of a licensed demand-side platform (DSP) and other audience buying technologies; manages programmatic, bid-based media and audience buying. Works as an agency's internal "center of excellence," supporting agency teams wishing to tap into this new buying model on behalf of agency clients.
Impression share
Impression share (IS) is the number of impressions you've received divided by the estimated number of impressions you were eligible to receive. Eligibility is based on your current ads' targeting settings, approval statuses, bids, and Quality Scores. Data is available at the campaign and ad group levels.
Non-guaranteed line item
Understanding the Cost-Per-Engagement Ad Model
Demand Side Platforms
A demand-side platform (DSP) is a system that allows digital advertisers to manage multiple ad exchange and data exchange accounts through one interface. Real time bidding for displaying online ads takes place within the ad exchanges, and by utilizing a DSP, marketers can manage their bids for the banners and the pricing for the data that they are layering on to target their audiences.
Remnant advertising
Remainder advertising (also known as remnant or last minute advertising) refers to the advertising space that a media company has been unable to sell. Depending on the medium, it could be ad space or time. Often it can be bought at a steep discount. Advertising time and space is a perishable commodity. If it is not sold, it is lost, used for a "house ad", or given away for public service announcements or some other non-revenue producing filler.
Sell Side Platform
A Sell-Side Platform (SSP) is a technology platform with the single mission of enabling publishers to manage their ad impression inventory and maximize revenue from digital media. As such they offer an efficient, automated and secure way to tap into the different sources of advertising income that are available, and provide insight into the various revenue streams and audiences. Many of the larger web publishers of the world use a Sell Side Platform to automate and optimize the selling of their online media space.
Advertising network
Direct Response Advertising and Marketing
What is leaderboard
What’s A DMP — And Do I Need One
Advertising media selection
Media buying
Media Buyers are the individuals responsible for purchasing time and advertising space for the purpose of advertising.[1] When planning what to buy, they must evaluate factors based on but not limited to station formats, pricing rates, demographics, geographic, and psychographics relating to the advertiser's particular product or service objectives.
Media planning
Media planning is generally the task of a media agency and entails finding the most appropriate media platforms for a client's brand or product. The job of media planning involves several areas of expertise that the media planner uses to determine what the best combination of media is to achieve the given marketing campaign objectives.
What’s the Difference Between Self-Service and Full-Service?
With a self-serve provider, you manage your campaign in its entirety. You are responsible for creating your banner ads, choosing the appropriate spend, and optimizing that spend across the various networks your ads may appear on. While a full-service provider will require a higher minimum, it isn t for naught. A truly full-service provider will manage your account for you and will provide you with access to reports and analytics. You should be able to trust that you re receiving the optimal return on your spend.
Ad serving
Ad serving describes the technology and service that places advertisements on web sites. Ad serving technology companies provide software to web sites and advertisers to serve ads, count them, choose the ads that will make the website or advertiser most money, and monitor progress of different advertising campaigns.
mid-roll
The name of an online video commercial that appears during an online video, it is typically :10 - :15 seconds in length. Once you click on certain online video links, you may be forced to watch a short commercial either before the video content (known as a pre-roll) during the video content (known as a mid-roll) or after the video content (known as a post-roll).
Attribution Management: The New Frontier In Search
Attribution management is the science of calculating the contribution that each marketing touch point experienced by a consumer has on generating a "conversion action" - such as a purchase. Once the true attribution of each touch point is calculated, more intelligent decisions can be made by marketers about investments in the specific channels, campaigns and advertisement attributes that produce the best return on investment.