Remember my post on picking my brain for free? Today is one of those days when someone is doing it, and, hopefully, for the benefit of others, as his questions are pretty broad and answers to them should address not only in this particular case, but help many others in the future too. I have [...]

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In July 2009 leading advertising industry organizations introduced a cross-industry Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising [PDF here]. The essence of the Program was to bring about “consumer-friendly standards to online behavioral advertising across the Internet” — ones that would correspond with the “Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising” [PDF here] proposed by the Federal [...]

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I have recently noticed a banner on a blog run by a fellow marketer. You can see it on your left now. Each word on the banner carries an enormous power, and all of them together — a powerful emotional message. We are told that this will happen — “4,500 kids will die today.” We [...]

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Geno on November 25th, 2009

A few days ago a Toronto-based affiliate marketer, Lorne Fade, has published an ad spending infograph based on Nielsen AdRelevance data. Among other things the infograph reflected the distribution of the top advertisers (by impressions and spend) on Facebook: A day earlier IKEA published a video on how they are using Facebook by kidnapping the [...]

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Geno on November 9th, 2009

Earlier this morning my friend and famous online marketer, Bryan Eisenberg, tweeted that Razorfish has released its 2009 Digital Brand Experience Report. I closely follow everything that Bryan says and posts (on Twitter, Facebook, or his blogs), and sure enough, this was another gem. Browsing through this report I have found it absolutely fascinating! Richly [...]

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Geno on September 21st, 2009

Ben Edelman, a Harvard Business School assistant professor, well-known in the affiliate marketing circles for exposing parasitic affiliate behavior, click fraud and affiliate commission fraud, has posted an online advertising Bill of Rights proposition. He proposes 5 rights to help safeguard advertisers “from increasingly powerful ad networks”, from “wasting advertisers’ budgets, slowing transition to online [...]

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Geno on September 21st, 2009

Ben Edelman, a Harvard Business School assistant professor, well-known in the affiliate marketing circles for exposing parasitic affiliate behavior, click fraud and affiliate commission fraud, has posted an online advertising Bill of Rights proposition. He proposes 5 rights to help safeguard advertisers “from increasingly powerful ad networks”, from “wasting advertisers’ budgets, slowing transition to online [...]

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