The Oncoming Rush of Online Advertising

With Yahoo replacing its CEO today, there's lots of talk about the ways that company makes money.

Arguably, the most important part of Yahoo's business plan is the way that it utilizes online advertising to make their bucks.

Today's Wall Street Journal looks at ways that marketers are using online advertising to hit just the target audiences they want and a fraction of the cost. The shift is important.

Moving from traditional advertising vehicles to more innovative ones allows for greater targeting and more flexible creative messaging. As technology advances, say with a certain pocket phone / computer, the ability to reach people using online means grows far larger than your ability to touch them using traditional mass media. Targeting geographically as well as demographically and psychographically will not only be necessary but made easier by the opportunities presented by online advertising.

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What to Worry About When Advertising Online

As if online advertising weren't difficult enough to deal with on its own, here's a whole new set of worries to contemplate.

Click fraud, Keyword Spamming and False Advertising, or so says this article from Entrepreneur Magazine.

The legal issues surrounding online advertising are still being defined. The more you know about your ads, the more protection you'll have. And alongside the legal questions are the core-business questions of how well your dollars are being spent. That side of the equation is where we come in.

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What the Big Boys in Online Advertising are Thinking.

You buy your music online, you reserve a table for dinner online, you probably even get directions to dinner, why not advertise online?

In the past few weeks, major players in the online advertising field have been gobbled up by even more major players in the online services field. Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have absorbed Doubleclick, Right Media and aQuantive respectively.

What's all this mean for the advertiser? The Wall Street Journal sat down for a few answers with David Moore, the chairman and CEO of 24/7 Media, an online advertising company that was itself recently purchased by WPP Group.

While the advertising landscape changes, remember that the best way for you to know how to spend your advertising dollar is to measure the value of every ad you place. And the easiest way to do that measurement is by using AdSymetrix. Simply Tag Your Ad and let AdSymetrix track and monitor the responses.

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