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Branded Display Ads Close Search Gap in 2011 and Beyond

According to a recent eMarketer forecast, growth in spending on online display ads will outstrip that for paid search through 2014, though search will continue to take the greater share of dollars. In 2010, both search and display will see increases greater than the rise in total US online ad spending, estimated at 13.9%. But between 2011 and 2014, the study projects online display spending will grow faster than overall online spending, while search spending will lag slightly behind.

US Online Display & Search Ad Spending Growth (% Change)
  Ad Spending Change
Type 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Online Display -3.4% 13.9 10.5 14.4 10.4 12.5
Search 1.4% 15.6 9.9 13.6 10.2 10.8
Total 4.5% 17.0 14.0 19.2 12.8 17.0
Source: eMarketer, November 2010; (Display includes banner, rich media & video; search includes paid listings, contextual links, paid inclusion & SEO)

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3 Proven Methods to Ensure Your Online Display Advertising Gets Results

It used to be that online display advertising was cumbersome and the return on investment was meager at best.  You had to craft an ad, get it into the hands of the publisher, run it, get results – rinse and repeat.  Banner ads in particular simply weren’t able to be tested without incurring huge costs and a lack of segmentation and analytics made it difficult for companies to grasp how well (or how poorly) their ads were performing.  In short, online display advertising was viewed as an expensive strategy that simply didn’t deliver the kind of returns that PPC  could guarantee.

These days, display advertising is starting to pick up momentum again, and it’s coming back in a big way. With A/B split testing, multivariate (Taguchi) testing and a whole host of tracking options, smart businesses are catching on to the wealth of online display advertising opportunities that have the potential to bring them just as much targeted traffic as PPC had in the past.  What’s more, ad networks haven’t been content to sit on the sidelines.  They’re now fully engaged as an all-in-one platform where the buyer can upload, swap, test, track and report on performance directly online.

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eBrand Interactive delivers banner advertising success!

By Tom Polanski, EVP, eBrand Media and eBrand Interactive

From its inception, eBrand Interactive has maintained a singular focus. We drive quality, targeted traffic to client web sites. That’s the bottom line of what we do. Over the years, the company has found numerous inventive ways to meet that bottom line. The key to our growth is our undistracted focus on our core areas of competency which includes our e-commerce expertise and our strategic agency relationships with all of the major portals. This focus allows us to create value propositions for our clients. The client can come to eBrand Interactive to create and manage a complete internet advertising campaign.

We understand return on investment. For most businesses, the internet has become the ultimate direct marketing tool. As a result of our ability to track and measure advertising campaigns, we can design advertising programs that consistently create a profit for our clients. That’s why we maintain a client retention rate of approximately 98%.

From its initial concept, eBrand Interactive has flourished into a full-service online marketing and advertising agency, providing clients with all the tools and advertising exposure needed to effectively use the Internet to sell their products and services.

We have significant agency relationships with most of the major portals, including MSN, and Yahoo!, as well as other high traffic sites, where we display our client’s advertising in premier placements. Because we can bring dozens of clients to a particular 3rd party from a single point of purchase, we’re often able to provide exceptional pricing and exclusive inventory deals.

Using our years of experience in buying millions of dollars in media we know which placements, publishers and networks will have the highest probability of meeting or beating mandated performance metrics.

As you know, the two main elements to success in the generation of sales that hit a targeted CPA are the quality of the advertising and the optimization of the program. We’ve spent years refining an advertising formula that produces traffic of an extremely high quality that converts while still having the ability to scale up to a high volume when successful. Next is a case study demonstrating one of the ways we’ve created custom display advertising campaigns to drive conversions for clients while building their brand equity:

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Yahoo loss toughens Bartz’s task

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz warned analysts that hard times would continue.The quarterly shortfall of $303 million is its first since 2002. New CEO offers few details about recovery plan.

Jessica Guynn reporting from San Francisco — Yahoo Inc. reported a $303-million shortfall Tuesday, its first quarterly loss since 2002, as the struggling Internet company took charges to acknowledge the shrinking value of its business.

Cutbacks by advertisers, especially on Web banners, hurt Yahoo’s revenue, which also dropped for the first time in seven years.

Eight days into her new job, Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz warned analysts during a conference call that tough times would continue. But before the presentation, as required by law, Yahoo’s head of investor relations read the list of risk factors — things that could go wrong for shareholders and depress the stock even further.

“I should have understood all those risks before I took this job,” Bartz quipped.

The moment of levity was short-lived. The continued deterioration of Yahoo’s business in the fourth quarter, the last under former CEO Jerry Yang’s watch, made Bartz’s assignment even tougher.

The Sunnyvale, Calif., company reported a net loss of $303 million, or 22 cents a share, compared with a profit of $206 million, or 15 cents, a year earlier. Revenue fell 1% to $1.81 billion.

Still, investors had braced for worse. Yahoo’s stock rose more than 5% to $11.95 in after-hours trading, after closing up 1.5% to $11.34 in regular trading before the earnings report.

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Engaged Online Viewers Receptive to Advertising

From Tom Polanski, EVP, eBrand Media and eBrand Interactive

According to a new study “Watching The Web: How Online Video Engages Audiences”  conducted by Forrester Consulting for Veoh Networks, , not all online video viewers are equal when it comes to advertising. While some online video viewers still only “snack” on short clips, there exists a large audience of young, influential, engaged viewers who watch a great deal of long-form online video and pay attention to the brand messages delivered to them in online video environments.

The study found that Engaged Viewers (viewers who watch more than an hour of online video a week) make up nearly 40% of all online video viewers and watch nearly 75% of all online video. Of these Engaged Viewers, those who spend the most time consuming and sharing long-form content:

• Are more likely to watch videos all the way through
• Pay more attention to online video more than they do TV
• Interact with and rate the videos they watch more frequently
• Are twice as likely to recall in-video ads and post-rolls than non-Engaged Viewers
• Agree more readily that advertising is fair and helps pay for their free experience
• Consider banner ads and ads that come in between videos (mid-rolls) most effective

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