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When Did Programmatic Advertising Start: A History Lesson

Rev

Remember those banner ads that you used to see when scrolling through MySpace or talking to your best friend via the antiquated AOL Instant Messenger? Those ads that we would see on our computers after school, or deep in a chat with your best friend, were actually the beginning of what we call Programmatic Advertising today.

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A Brief History of Online Advertising

Hubspot

1994: The first banner ads appear. The age of banner ads had officially begun. Wired magazine's former online off-shoot HotWired for introducing the world to the enduringly ubiquitous banner ad. AT&T paid HotWired $30,000 to place the banner ad above on their site for three months.

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26 A/B Testing Examples to Inspire Your Next Test

Convert

Vancouver 2010 Olympic Store: Single Page vs Multi-Step Checkout. The variant displayed an important product feature or USP below each image in the carousel ( source ). Result: They did that and found version B had a 433% increase in clickthrough than version “A”. Sony: Personalized Banner Ad. A” ( Source ).

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Banners Have 99 Problems And A Click Ain’t One

Marketing Insider Group

A couple of years ago, when he was still with WPP’s Mindshare, I heard Scott Sorokin explain how 99.99% of people who see a banner ad will ignore it. This has become one of my favorite content marketing quotes and I use it in almost every presentation: Banners have 99 problems and a click ain’t one! Tweet This ].

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