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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

It first became obvious with social media: recommended posts and amplification of addictive, divisive content in order to keep users scrolling, creating additional surface area for advertising. Amazon was late to the party, but once it discovered advertising, it went all in. The market was maturing.

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Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value

Occam's Razor

We've seen explosive growth in brand pages, types of advertising and other fun ways to monetize this audience. Based on results of value identified for Facebook, optimize their advertising mix strategy for future product launches. Our sections are: #1: Facebook Advertising/Marketing ROI Challenge: You're Thinking Wrong. #2:

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The Role of Cookies in Analytics and Privacy Issues they Raise

Smart Data Collective

Cookies are commonly used on the Internet since 1994; of course, they are used for different purposes, such as retargeted advertising. In general words, cookies were developed to personalize the user, provide the user the most exciting information upon his preferences, and track the overall user experience to give him target advertisements.

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AI Technology Helps App Marketplaces Compete with App Store

Smart Data Collective

However, if you want to make money from your app, you’ll need to pay for advertising, in-app purchases, and subscriptions. The platform has been around since 2011 and offers access to more than 250,000 apps that have been downloaded over 1 billion times. The app marketplace also helps generate revenue via advertising.

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Excellent Analytics Tips #20: Measuring Digital "Brand Strength"

Occam's Razor

." You increase unaided brand recall by creating great products (its not called a tablet, they are all called iPads), delivering fantastic service ("their return process is as good as Zappos"), and of course online and offline advertising. Clever Amazon tying its online advertising with a competitor's offline advertising.

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Google Analytics Custom Reports: Paid Search Campaigns Analysis

Occam's Razor

Paid Search is in a silo under Advertising (where nothing else exists, all other advertising you do is conveniently hidden away under, get this, Traffic Sources > Sources > Campaigns!). Some if it has to do with company organization structure and incentives. But there is also a tool reason.

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Experiment design and modeling for long-term studies in ads

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

For example in ads, experiments using cookies (users) as experimental units are not suited to capture the impact of a treatment on advertisers or publishers nor their reaction to it. For instance, in 2011 we altered the AdWords auction ranking function to account for the long-term impact of showing a given ad.