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Programmatic Advertising Glossary & Brief History

Digilant

Their primary purpose is to buy and sell digital media, including display, video, and mobile, on behalf of agency clients. A brief history of programmatic digital advertising To understand programmatic advertising, we have to travel back to 1994 when the first banner ad was displayed. And what did Google do to combat this?

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What is Programmatic Digital Advertising?

Digilant

Their primary purpose is to buy and sell digital media, including display, video, and mobile, on behalf of agency clients. . To understand programmatic advertising, we have to travel back to 1994 when the first banner ad was displayed. Hotwired.com made a deal with AT&T to display a banner ad on their site for three months.

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Quick Ways to Make Your Google Ads Stand Out from the Competition

Unbounce

Google introduced the first extension—sitelinks—way back in 2009. There are now ten different types of manual extensions and six automated extensions that advertisers can use to compel more clicks: Google ad exensions are free to implement and often improve your ad’s CTR. Remarketing isn’t just for display ads anymore!

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How to Save Up to 50% on Your PPC With Quality Score

Hubspot

In 2009, Craig Danuloff crunched some numbers to show that a Quality Score of 10 could save you 30% on cost per click, or CPC. In 2009, a Quality Score of 7 (out of 10) was average. A Quality Score of 9 is twice as valuable as it was in 2009, saving you 44.4% How much lower? Let’s take a look. compared to 22.2%.

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Social Media Marketing Terms You Need to Know

ClearVoice

Click-Through Rate – A click-through rate (CTR) tracks how many times your audience clicks your ad on a platform. The network launched in 2009, and its growth was by word of mouth, and the platform become open to all in 2012. It’s now ranked the third largest social platform in the U.S. .

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Best AdWords Tips and Tactics of 2009, Part 2

Webbiquity

Click-through rate (CTR) is the single most important factor in determining Quality Score, which is as important as bid level in determining how highly an ad will appear in search results. Rich Media and Video templates in display ad builder by Inside AdWords. What are two of the simplest ways to optimize AdWords campaigns?

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How to Create CTAs that Actually Cause Action

Single Grain

They display the default texts “Submit,” “Buy” or “Purchase,” none of which compel the user to actually take the action. Back in 2009, there was a lot of talk about the big orange button and how it was “the future of marketing.”. Have a clear benefit for the user. Continue the conversion momentum. How’s that for irony?)