Google VP of ad products Susan Wojcicki told IAB’s Leadership Meeting yesterday in Carlsbad,CA that “the display industry is one of the most innovative parts of the Web right now,” and “will be one of the largest ad markets, if not the largest. It has to be,” she added. “Everything is moving online.”
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Google’s Wojcicki at IAB: Display ‘Has to Be’ One of Largest Ad Markets
ILM:09: Keynote from NBC Local’s Brian Buchwald
NBC has redefined its “core” to fully leverage key forms of online and offline media, and has consequently seen its reach boosted astronomically, even as individual elements such as the TV stations decline in overall figures, noted ILM:09 Keynoter Brian Buchwald, Executive VP, Local Integrated Media and NBC Everywhere.
While media companies (and their [...]
ILM:09: SMBs Benefit from More Competition to Google, Search Preferences
Yodle CEO Court Cunningham says that a major shift is occurring in SMB marketing as Google starts to give preference in rankings to merchant sites rather than to directory listings. “There are many, many more merchant sites” than there were a year ago, he noted on a panel at ILM:09 that also featured WebVisible CEO [...]
Local Thunder Targets Local Ad ‘Click Thru Experience’
Small businesses often buy online advertising or email campaigns and then don’t know what else to do to capitalize on the effort. Maximizing online advertising for SMBs is the new orientation of Portland,ME-based Local Thunder, a four-year old services company that we last wrote about in April 2007.
Local Thunder originally was focused on [...]
Kuni BMW Leverages Local/Social: 4,690 Facebook ‘Fans’
For those that doubt that social media can play an effective role in local business marketing, check out Kuni BMW, which is based in Beaverton, OR. The dealership has a headstart with its nameplate – BMW owners are well known for their sense of community. Many still flash each other’s headlights when they [...]










