MediaPost has found some “eyeopeners” regarding online advertising, after a survey of .5 million unique domains. Among their findings:
- About 10% of domains selling ad impressions in scale-buying environments (networks, SSPs and exchanges) are non-English language sites. There is always chaff among the wheat in scale buying (e.g., porn sites, sites with hate speech), but non-English sites topped that chaff by percentage.
- About 21% of the sites MediaPost surveyed in late 2010 no longer exist, but, are still on whitelists; media buyers are paying for exposure on non-existent venues.
- “There’s a serious quality issue out there, folks,” MediaPost’s Andrew Lerner observed, which is a challenge to brands and marketers. About 58% available in real-time bidding (RTB) and large networks are what Lerner called “sub-standard environments for advertisers,” which use sub-standard publishing or editorial principles. Thus, nearly six of 10 domains are ones an ad buyer might actually choose to avoid.
Despite those findings, MediaPost observes that the higher-quality sites are more likely to deliver click-throughs, CPA and brand metrics. And while MediaPost did not reveal the names of any of the hate speech or substandard properties, a quick check of several “White Pride” sites (including kkk.com) revealed no advertisements.
Google +1 Adds Publishing Partners | Some Ask ICANN .why? | Microsoft-Nielsen Target Web-to-TV
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Google has 19 new media partners worldwide who are implementing Google’s +1 button their news articles and pages, including The Telegraph, Independent.co.uk, NME and Last.fm, reports Paid Content. Google has been working with publishers to introduce the button, many of whom expressed concern about how much access they would have to data collected by Google from readers who “+1” content.
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ICANN’s recently unveiled plans to sell new .brand domain names for about $185,000 apiece has some considering the what-for, according to BtoB Online. Esther Dyson, a digital entrepreneur and former chairwoman of ICANN, expressed doubts: “I think it's kind of a useless market; and, if I had $185,000, I'd spend it on something else.”
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Microsoft's advertising division is collaborating with Nielsen to measure how effectively online advertising for TV programming leads desired viewers to actually watch the program. The Television Online Effect pilot program will begin some time in July, and use aggregate profile data from Nielsen's TV/Internet Fusion panel, an integrated database of more than 250,000 people. From that data, Microsoft will create a target audience, and then run a campaign across multiple Microsoft properties, reports MultiChannel News.
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Monster Worldwide, the parent company of job search site, Monster, has launched BeKnown, a professional networking Facebook app designed to enable users to establish a professional network and search for jobs, writes BtoB Online. BeKnown is available in 19 different languages, and aims to give Facebook users a separate, more professional place to collect work-related content.
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Vancouver, B.C.-based gaming studio Silicon Sisters, female creators of content targeting the girl-gamer audience, is gearing up to release their second girl game. The studio released its well-received first game, School 26, in April, and the next School 26 game -- Summer of Secrets – is due in July, writes Media Shift.
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