Archive for November, 2009
New Chart: How Merchants Manage the Affiliate Search Marketing Dilemma
SUMMARY: Competition between companies and their affiliates is natural. Affiliates can be very effective at creating revenue-generating traffic through search so there’s an inherent tension in the system. See the main attitudes/policies with which merchants attempt to deal with this issue.
With the advent of search marketing came the problem of competition between companies and the affiliates with whom they have, hopefully, symbiotic relationships. It’s in an affiliate’s best interests to generate search traffic using the most alluring keyword terms, and these are often branded, including the company name itself. Merchants for their part generally want to take full advantage of those same terms and to avoid ‘paying twice’ for affiliate search-driven clicks that they feel would have come to them anyway based on the keyword.
At the same time, affiliates can be very effective at creating revenue-generating traffic through search (some merchants simply cede paid search to their affiliates) so there’s an inherent tension in the system.
Below we see the main attitudes/policies with which merchants attempt to deal with this issue. Interestingly, the number of them who completely reserves brand/trademarked terms has dropped in favor of more nuanced approaches:
Posted by eBrand Media Research Department in Affiliate Marketing, Marketing on November 25th, 2009
Microsoft may pay News Corporation to pull news content from Google listings
According to Michael Wolff, writing at Newser, on November 10, 2009:
”Rupert Murdoch continues his war with the Internet. Over the weekend, he told an interviewer (the interviewer, on Sky News Australia, works for him) that as part of his campaign to charge users for reading his content, what he plans to do is to block Google from indexing his newspapers.
As of a year ago, Murdoch had never used Google—never once, unassisted, has he run an Internet search—and so it might be reasonable to assume he doesn’t know what’s involved here.
It is quite possible he doesn’t realize—and can’t fathom—that removing News Corp.’s newspapers from Google means that, in the largest part of the information market, they would cease to count, cease to be a factor, that their absence would not register as a hole.
Nor, it is possible, does he realize that as much as 90% of his traffic comes from Google and other search engines, that even if his goal is to sell content, there is really no other way to direct people to it than through search engines.”
But Mr. Murdoch didn’t accidentally become one of the wealthiest and powerful men in the world. He wants to get paid.
It was reported today that Microsoft is the early stages of discussing a deal with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation where Microsoft will pay News Corp to provide its news content to Bing while pulling its content from Google.
To learn more please visit “For Search, Murdoch Looks to a Deal With Microsoft”
Posted by eBrand Media Research Department in Trend Tracker on November 23rd, 2009
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Posted by eBrand Media Public Relations Department in Facebook, Marketing, Social Media, Twitter, eBrand Media on November 19th, 2009
Cross-Channel Attribution Model On Track To Replace The Last Click
Say bye-bye to the last click as the de facto measurement tool. Tools are being developed that Forrester Research analysts believe will have an impact on the way that advertising allocates ad budgets across media channels, from online to offline.
Forrester Research recently published a report titled “The Forrester Wave: Interactive Attribution, Q4 2009,” focusing on what Analyst Emily Riley calls “the bleeding edge of an industry change.”
Online advertising has always held the promise of being the most accountable medium, but execs in the industry now realize models need to measure much more across many advertising channels. Riley says cross-channel attribution is so new that companies offering the metrics model and the technology comprise a “motley crew” from across the industry.
Most of the “solutions” are not “fully baked and few of the companies offer a full service media buy, where the company does the measurement, analysis and reallocates the media buy,” she says.
Posted by eBrand Media Research Department in Trend Tracker on November 18th, 2009