Hannah Kimuyu

Hannah Kimuyu

Hannah has worked in Paid Search for over 11 years and is responsible for managing and delivering the agency’s paid media strategy for all clients. Through this role she also consults for some of Greenlight’s largest international clients, including Talk Mobile, American Express and New Look. Prior to Greenlight, Hannah worked with the Energy Saving Trust and Capital.

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30 th Apr 2012

Should we bother with Facebook Advertising if 44% of us would never click on a sponsored ad?

Following on from Andreas Pouros’ blog, I take one of his closing points: “The good news for Facebook is that it could capture around 22% of that search market by barely breaking a sweat”. Although tiny when compared to Google’s 87% share [Source: Greenlight - Search and Social Survey 2011/2012], the opportunity still presents a greater share when compared to the other big players in the market (Yahoo, Bing etc).
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22 nd Jul 2008

ICANN Domain Name Ruling, Threat to Search?

The recent ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) ruling, which approved the registering of any domain suffix for websites, could prove to be disastrous for the paid search advertising industry and will no doubt impact natural search in the medium to long term.

ICANN regulate...

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29 th Aug 2007

Top 5 Most Common Paid Search Pitfalls

Search marketing has seen explosive growth since its birth, and owes its rapid adoption by marketers to the increasing volume of consumers that use search as part of their every day lives. Its main role has always been to help the consumer find relevant products, services or information via the web. With user attention almost solely focused on the results on the first page, it stands to reason that being on page one on a major search engine should produce a significant amount of qualified traffic, sales and of course a strong revenue stream.
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14 th Feb 2008

Are you tracking your search activity or struggling to see the value in it?

The findings from trade organisation European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA) indicate that advertisers are diverting spend away from TV and print into online. Much of this transition will see online ad spend rise by over 65% in 2008. A big part of this expansion includes a boost in E...

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03 rd Sep 2008

Google scraps best practice funding - end of an era or heralding a new dawn?

With the news that Google is to scrap its best practice funding programme - worth an estimated £50m a year to EMEA agencies - it seems the halcyon days of Google agency kickbacks are well and truly over.

But is there all that much to miss?

Launched by Google in 2005, Best Practice Funding (BPF) was...

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15 th Jun 2009

Google updates its US ad text trademark policy

On Friday 15 May Google announced a change to its US ad text trademark policy. In effect, this new policy will allow advertisers to use trademarks in ad copy and will take effect from the 15 June.

According to Google the change will benefit both users and advertisers by reducing the number of ge...

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