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Internet Reach in India

Recently, I was in mumbai, where I came across an interesting road side juice shop.What’s interesting was their creativity, which was someway related to our field.Their shop name is “Gogola” logo exactly reflects Google. Also their Menu card was designed like a webpage which was very catchy, So I immediately  picked up my mobile took some photos, enjoy The ...

Google Ad Planner

Google Ad Planner, a new tool from Google. I am in the Beta Test program.I have worked on the Tool for a couple of weeks now and here’s my thoughts about the tool.     The tool lets you search inventory across different countries.It allows you to searh page views, unique visitors, % reach You have the option ...

Booming Vertical Ad networks

Vertical Ad network Online market is moving towards performance based delivery and better reach, which witnesses varied verticals to cater to every Marketer needs. I have consolidated some of the networks, which I came across   Quattro Wireless ...

Interstitial Ad-the Ambush

Penned down lines would find its usefulness for those, who’s wanting to know what an Interstitial ad is. Interstitial ad, is one of the most popular Rich Media ad type.Also, commonly known as Metastitial ads or transition ads.Interstitial ads are those, which would appear when an user navigates from one page to another ...

Relevancy of Online advertising, a disaster?

In our industry, throwing up advert much relevant to the content and to the Targeted Audience is the prominent factors which determines a good advert.But sometimes, it might leads to disaster.One such case which, I came across today when, I happened to check my email on my 30gigs account.When I opened up the ‘Inbox”, I ...

Trafficking Text Ads containing Special Characters

Trafficking Text ads, ain’t simple as they appear.One have to be utmost cautious while dealing with such ads.Important point is, when you Traffick a Text ad, which contains special characters or any Double byte characters such as “$,#,..” would be truncated on the web site.Because web browser might not properly interpret the special ...

Ad Serving on YouTube

You Tube has started to ad serve.Mainly after much speculations among advertisers and YouTube fans, the GoogleTube now officially started their adverts. So far on the site, below were the ad units, I have noticed 300×35 gif/jpeg banner 300×250 gif/jpeg banner In line video along with a 300×250 companion gif/jpeg banner All the adverts are pushed through Doubleclick’s DFP.I have ...

Facebook’s New Profile based Ad Targeting System

Facebook, the most popular social networking site has revealed its plans, to monetize through online advertisements which would be targeted based upon it’s user’s profile. Technically this targeting is known as Profile Targeting. Facebook works on this profile based ad targeting system with full priority.According to sources, the ads would be Text based and not ...

Cache Busting -a closer look

Cache busting It is nothing but a technique to override caching of online advertisements. Cache busting is done primarily to stop caching of online advertisements in local system because when a previously visited page is requested again, the browser would retrieve the webpage content along with online advertisements from the cookies(refer to my earlier article on ...