Digital Advertising

We published a brief on this topic back in 2004 and decided it was time to run a new series of tests to find out what kind of ROI you can expect to achieve with the smaller PPC engines. That is to say, not Google, Yahoo Search Marketing or…

During a preliminary study of the use of video as a marketing tool, we have found that the use of video to market a product or service may actually help increase conversion. In addition, we are finding that using short video clips to…

NOTES: These are the notes for our interactive July 26 clinic on The ROI on PPC vs. Affiliate MArketing. The recording of the event will be posted here in a few days. Which gives the best return on your investment - Pay per Click…

A recent article in AdWeek shows just how slow most online marketers are to catch up with the potential of emerging media. Here, in part, is what the article says: While in-game advertising and advergaming has received much attention, 72…

What are eco-ads? They spring from marketing strategies, often within large corporations, which address the need to present companies as being friendly towards the environment. Companies recognize that many of their customers are concerned…

According to an article on CNET today, the current boom in online ad spending is well protected from the kind of bust we saw back in 2001. The author argues that the presence and commitment of mainstream advertisers like Ford and Procter…

At Marketing Experiments we have done plenty of research on the topic of click fraud. Companies hire low-wage surfers to click on competitive ads, thereby spending the competition’s budgets on useless clicks. Software is developed to do…

Benjamin Edelman, a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Economics at Harvard University, has been doing some interesting work on detecting click fraud. For a while he has been tracking the obvious frauds...clicks by competitors and clicks…

NOTES: These are the notes from our interactive March 29 teleclinic on Click Fraud. If you missed it, the recording will be posted here a few days after the event. Specifics of these first three tested campaigns included: All three…

This Wednesday at 4:00pm, EST, we'll be conducting our 60-minutes call on how to fight click fraud. You'll learn how to identify click fraud, and how to minimize the chances of being targeted. Reserve you place on our click fraud call…

How can one combat click fraud when running PPC campaigns? How can you minimize the chance of being targeted? And how can you find out if you have already been paying for fraudulent clicks? Suspecting we had been a victim of click fraud…

One of the frustrations of launching a new web site, or blog, is the time it takes to attract serious organic search traffic. When you launch with a new domain, you know it’s going to take a while before the search engines start indexing…

In today’s Washington Post there is another article on click fraud, pointing to both Google and Yahoo! This quote gets to the heart of it: ”After analyzing where and when each click came from, auditing firm ClickFacts Inc. estimated that…

This morning we received an email with a number of questions on PPC tracking. Our resident PPC expert, Aaron Rosenthal, wrote a lengthy reply which you'll see below. Question: I have read many of your research reports on PPC. It seems to…

This week the media seems to have been alive with articles and posts about click fraud. I can’t recall when the topic was so much “in the news”. Perhaps the high point of the week was when tempers flared and voices were raised at a session…