Advertising: Marketing on Google: ItÂs Not Just Text Anymore
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Google is turning to Madison Avenue to help convince marketers to buy its more elaborate types of online ads, like click-to-play video.
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Psychiatric help and vegetables included Google owes its success to putting advertising into parts of our lives where no one has ever put adverts before. Now a new patent illustrates the extent of its ambitions.â¦
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Google is the focus of mounting paranoia over the scope of its powers as it expands into new advertising formats.
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InfoWorld - Google lost ground in the U.S. Internet advertising market for the first time in two years during 2007 due toÂ slower growth in the fourth quarter, market researcher IDC said Monday.
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Looking back on a year of advertising innovation
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Who says newspaper media is dying? For Google, newspaper might still be a profitable advertising niche. Thus, it launches an Adwords extension program where advertisers can easily put up campaign ads on newspapers included in the Google newspaper advertising program. The new ad program would benefit both newspaper publishers and advertisers by streamlining the process of [...]
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Google undeservedly has gotten all the credit for many clicks on the&#160;online ads&#160;it delivers via its search engine, but Microsoft wants to put a stop to that.So said Brian McAndrews, senior vice president of Microsoft&#39;s Advertiser Publisher Solutions Group during a panel discussion at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco Thursday.Currently, systems for tracking ad conversions and analyzing online marketing campaigns focus on the last ad a user viewed or clicked on, he said. This gives all credit to that last publisher and not to others the user may have been at before and influenced the user to seek more information about the advertiser, McAndrews said.In particular, this situation has unfairly benefitted Google because many times someone will see a display ad on a site and go to Google, search for the vendor&#39;s name, and then click on the vendor&#39;s text ad served by Google, he said.But Microsoft is developing a technology called &quot;conversion attribution&quot; that will track the trail of ads seen by a user, so that advertisers get a more complete understanding of how effective their marketing campaigns are, he said.Along the way, advertisers will get a more balanced view of the value of their ads across a wider trail of Web sites and via a variety of ad formats, not just the last ad displayed by the last publisher, which is often Google, he said.&quot;We&#39;ll introduce conversion attribution to give [more publishers] credit and it will devalue search [advertising],&quot; McAndrews said.Search advertising is the largest online ad format, accounting for about 40 percent of total ad spend. Google has built its empire on these pay-per-click ads, which the company matches to the content of queries on its search engine and to the content of third-party Web sites on its ad network.While search has been the main driver of the blistering growth of online advertising in the past five years, that won&#39;t be the case in the coming five years, McAndrews said.In addition to the &quot;conversion attribution&quot; technology, the shift away from search ads will be fueled by the increased spending in online ads from large companies which prefer display and rich media advertising designed to boost their brands, and for which pay-per-click text ads are less effective, he said.Google didn&#39;t have any representatives participating in the panel. The company didn&#39;t immediately respond to a request for comment.Microsoft didn&#39;t immediately respond to a request for clarification on the availability of the &quot;conversion attribution&quot; technology.McAndrews, who&#160;came to Microsoft recently via its $6 billion purchase of aQuantive, of which he was the CEO, shared the stage with other ad executives in a panel titled &quot;Edge: The Advertising Model&quot; moderated by conference chair John Battelle.
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(InfoWorld) - GoogleÂ is testing a new advertising format that it hopes will make people spend more time looking at ads online, and even embed them in their own Web sites. Called Gadget ads, the service has already been in testing with a small handful of clients. On Wednesday Google announced that it was widening the tests considerably, which means more of the ads will start appearing on Web sites. The format allows companies to build ads that include audio, video, games, and live data feeds, and to spruce them up with the Flash and JavaScript programming languages. The ads wind up looking like small Web pages within a Web page, and people can save them to a blog or to their iGoogle home page. Google posted several examples of the Gadget ads on its Web site. An ad for a Nissan car lets people type a U.S. postal code in the advertisement to get a map showing traffic conditions where they live. Another for the Six Flags theme park includes a simple game and a link to "add to your Google home page." The ads give advertisers detailed metrics about who uses them, according to Google. The Six Flags ad delivered 94.5 million impressions to 17.1 million unique users, and was interacted with about 200,000 times, Google said. 0.3 percent of those exposed to the Gadget ads interacted with them, Google said. In comparison, direct mail generates a response rate of 2.18 percent, according to figures for 2006 from the Direct Marketing Association. The Gadget ads run onÂ Google's Adsense advertising networkÂ and are priced by number of clicks or number of impressions. Google didn't say when the testing period would end, but the it said Gadget ads will eventually be available in 20 languages and 100 countries. Microsoft and other companies also let advertisers put video and interactive features in Web sites, but Google claims that its ads offer more ways to keep people engaged. The ads can also appear on YouTube and sellers can include part of a checkout process in the advertisement.
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Ad agencies are in the brand-building business, but sometimes their efforts transcend the kind of process automation that intermediaries such as Google and MSN introduce to Web advertising. How can online creativity be bottled and distributed?
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Even the most seasoned optimization experts hit roadblocks when it comes to marketing their web sites. When these issues arise, the most common way to deal with them is through the use of pay per click advertising. It is important to understand that search engine optimization has its limitations. With the introduction of Google&#8217;s Universal Search [...]
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(InfoWorld) - Google has begun inviting mobile Web site developers to display Google ads on their sites as part of a limited beta test. The offer extends to the mobile environment Google's AdSense program, which lets Web developers earn revenue by placing advertisements on their sites. Google runs the back-end network that places ads on the sites relevant to content. Site owners earn revenue when visitors click on the ads. Sites must be written in one of three mobile markup languages: WML, XHTML, and cHTML (compact HTML) in order to use AdSense for mobile, according to a Google AdSense for mobile help page. That's because Google's crawlers must be able to read the page in those languages to determine page content and serve up relevant ads. A blogger at Self Made Minds said that he received an e-mail invitation from Google on Thursday night to test AdSense for mobile. In a statement, Google confirmed that it is conducting a limited beta to test AdSense for mobile. The company plans to evaluate the beta and refine the product based on feedback from users, it said. Late last year, Google began delivering advertisements along with its mobile search results. Online giantsÂ such asÂ Google are increasingly interested in the potential revenue stream from mobile users. "Mobile advertising is a huge opportunity for us, starting with the basic premise that there are something like 3 billion or so handsets in the world," said Dilip Venkatachari, director of product management responsible for mobile monetization efforts at Google, in a recent interview. That compares to just around 1 billion PC users on the planet, making for an even larger target market.
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In theory, advertising agencies should love mobile telephones. What better way to reach consumers on the go?
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The recently concluded IPO by Google, the Internetâs most popular search engine, generated more buzz than usual for several reasons.
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Googleâs efforts to promote Android, an open and free platform for cellphones, is provoking rivals.
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Google, which dominates the market for advertising on the Internet, seems to be hoping to do the same thing on television.
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When it comes to advertising on the mobile Web, online retailers are treading carefully. But some say they have found enticing success from early marketing efforts.
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Google's AdSense is in the clear, but two patents related to the AutoLink piece of the Google toolbar are to be re-examined.