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Feb 2013
Google has announced significant changes to its AdWords digital advertising platform adding functionality it calls “Enhanced Campaigns”. Put simply, it centralises controls for mobile and desktop advertising campaigns in one place and offers advertisers more data to show the real value of their campaigns. Previously businesses have had to submit individual advertising campaigns for different devices, locations and times - a labour-intensive process which most times results in their running hundreds of similar campaigns simultaneously.
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Blog
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Feb 2013
Google‘s “Enhanced Campaigns”, will prove a challenge to advertisers, the biggest being that of how third party tracking solutions can integrate into it. As it currently stands, advertisers could be forgiven for thinking Google is upping its game against third party tracking solutions and trying to create a system whereby any solution outside of Google’s is rendered less useful, says Angela Knibb, campaign manager at the agency.
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Jan 2013
Facebook has shown strong performance in Q4 with revenues up 40%. Its mobile ad sales have more than doubled on the previous quarter to total $306m, and now account for 23% of the Social Network’s overall ad revenues. The challenge now is in how it can increase monetisable engagement between users and advertisers whilst maintaining quality in terms of both targeting and also user experience. Graph Search is capable of doing this at the local business level, but getting increasingly more from big brands is the big challenge.
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Press
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Jan 2013
Further to speculation that has been building up over week, Facebook has today announced an addition to its social network - a smart search engine it has called ‘‘Graph Search ’. It will allow people using Facebook to more quickly find answers to questions about friends in their Social Graph. Andreas Pouros, COO at Greenlight, says today’s announcement is a story of ‘three’ halves.
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Nov 2012
Google recently launched a new beta ‘Remarketing in Search’, that could have a substantial impact on the way we traditionally use remarketing. It aims to take the benefits of remarketing and leverage them within the search engine results pages (SERPs).
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Press
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Aug 2012
A combination of the availability of technology, data and liquidity of inventory via exchanges has meant that the process of buying digital advertising has been completely democratised. Anyone with the will to buy their own display, mobile and video can do it today.
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24
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Aug 2012
60 seconds with Biren Kalaria, Head of Invite Media UK, Google, on Demand-side platform (DSP) technology and why online advertisers should be thinking of including this relatively new and evolving technology in their digital strategy
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