Local web advertising has proven to be a valuable market over that last few years. Their target was primarily larger businesses that helped this market grow at lightning fast speeds. That is until the recession began to set in and marketing budgets started to tighten. This has left many web advertisers looking for a new [...]
It would appear that the effects of the recession are causing some consolidation in the mobile advertising industry. One of the latest examples of this can be found in the buyout of mSnap by SmartReply. The latter company creates custom marketing campaigns for clients that can be used over the telephone and through email. There [...]
Many smaller companies find it difficult to determine what makes the most sense in terms of advertising. As these companies all have a limited marketing budget, it is important that the money is spent in the best possible way to promote the company. A new report indicates that many smaller companies are spending their marketing [...]
In an effort to better understand the impact of digital advertising, Google will be investing money to research the trend. Google will not be conducting the research alone. Instead, the Internet giant will join ranks with WPP, which is an advertising company based in the United Kingdom. Together these two companies will contribute around $4.6 [...]
Over the last year, the number of people in the US who turn to their mobile devices to search the web on a daily basis has doubled. In January nearly 22 million people were taking advantage of the mobile web. This means that companies like Google have probably not been able to fully capitalize on [...]
A developer named Christopher Soghoian at Harvard University created an add-on for web browsers that will prevent advertisers from being able to monitor a user’s web surfing activities. This includes the various searches that a browser on the web might conduct and even the sites that they might visit. For those who might be worried [...]
The State Senate in Utah killed a bill which was attempting to regulate the way in which web advertisers used trademarks. This particular bill would have made it illegal for a company to use the trademark of another company as a trigger for one of its own web advertisements. This was not the first time [...]
A new survey published by TRUSTe shows that Americans view their privacy on the internet as a primary concern. Over 90% of the people that responded to the survey commented that privacy was at least somewhat of a concern to them. One form of web advertising called behavioral targeting, which produces advertisements based on a [...]
