This week, my colleague Kevin Lee sits down with comScore’s Gian Fulgoni to discuss trends in online ad metrics. There’s some interesting back-and-forth in this onine video interview, especially in regards to whether Paid Search gets too much credit for the proverbial last click. You can watch these videos here or on KevinLee.Net; Kevin’s site also includes prior interview with HARO’s Peter Shankman and Yahoo’s Joanne Bradford.
Another series of segments from my colleague Kevin Lee’s new video series, Marketing Obsessions. Here, Joanne Bradford, Yahoo’s new Senior Vice President, discusses mistakes made by today’s CMOs when approaching the online medium, her attitude toward performance marketing, Yahoo’s new branding campaign, and other issues.
Good blog post from Didit’s Mark Simon on why big agencies rarely do search correctly. My favorite quote: “would you ever get on a plane if you knew that air traffic controllers checked the flight status of all their planes “twelve times a day?” I sure wouldn’t.”
An article from Didit’s Kevin Lee arguing that improved relevance, improved ad campaigns, and other factors will make search advertising more expensive in the coming 12 months.
Didit’s Steve Baldwin poses the question: “Is the interactive advertising business on the brink of the same kind of meltdown that Wall Street just went through?”
