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Programmatic Advertising Glossary & Brief History

Digilant

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. Hotwired.com made a deal with AT&T to display a banner ad on their site for three months. At this time, ads were first-come, first-served (literally).

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What is Programmatic Digital Advertising?

Digilant

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. Right before the turn of the millennium, competition arose for DoubleClick as they couldn’t keep up with the demand.

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Custom Reports: Measuring Lead Generation Conversions with Google Analytics

NuSpark Consulting

This post is not a primer on basic Google analytics, but a look at some key custom reports and metrics that can help you strategize, with a focus on b2b lead generation websites that focus on conversions. Again, all of these conversion goals are what brings leads into your funnel, where further marketing and lead nurturing can begin.

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24 Favorite Inbound Marketing & Digital Media Buying Tools That Don’t Include Google

NuSpark Consulting

As a digital marketing lead generation strategist and online media buyer, you just can’t have enough tools to help manage my clients’ online activities. Acquisio has robust automated bid management tools, and does include integrations with Google Analytics, Trade Desk (for display), and Doubleclick. Doubleclick. Online Display.

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Media Buying 101: What It Is and How It Works [+15 Platforms to Use]

Hubspot

Ever wonder who is behind those banner ads on the sites you visit the most? Or the Super Bowl ads we talk about for weeks after they've aired? It doesn't get much buzz in the marketing industry, but this process is responsible for the targeted ads we see today. This leads us to key progress indicators (KPIs).

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Inside The Washington Post’s Quest to Fix Ad Tech

Contently

. “Right now, the way advertising works isn’t as efficient as it could possibly be, and the mentality has been, ‘Well, that’s just how it is,'” he said, “If advertising is slow, you go to the DoubleClicks and other big-hitters and say, ‘You guys are slow, you need to be faster.’

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The Top 10 Marketing Attribution Software Solutions

Oktopost

Especially, for lead generation. digital companies now have a veritable plethora of viable and effective marketing channels available for lead generation. In 2015, the average B2B nurture funnel was 12 months long with the full marketing and sales funnel taking about 512 days from lead to sale on average!