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Uncovering Ad Fraud at Financial Times: $1.3 Million PER MONTH

by David | Sep 27, 2017 | adsense clickfraud, advertising

Investigation reveals “organized crime” at one paper – how many more are undiscovered? I know that I sound like a broken record on this subject, but for God’s sake, it’s been 3 years now since pretty much everybody in the digital ad...

Just What Is a Digital Native Anyway?

by David | Jun 28, 2017 | advertising, Digital Migration

Not to get all existential on your or anything, but it’s the difference between “Being” and “Doing” Recently, while putting the finishing touches on a Great Big Important Research Project For A Huge Client, I got into a discussion with...

Whither Digital Advertising, Mid-2017 Edition: NYTimes Take; Analytics to the Rescue!

by David | Jun 21, 2017 | adsense clickfraud, advertising, newspaper crisis, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers

Are we about to see advertisers “flee to quality”? And would a complete overhaul of digital advertising be good for journalists and netizens who produce honest, high-quality content (and more importantly, bad for Fake News)? Mark Thompson, the CEO of the...

Solutions to Fake News 1: Deny Lie Merchants Access to Premium Ad Revenue

by David | Dec 1, 2016 | adsense clickfraud, advertising, Digital Migration, journalism, new media, Politics & New Media

Is a market-based solution the best way to solve the fake news problem? There’s been a sudden realization outside the cozy confines of digital business model nerds, that the open nature of the web has allowed an entire class of scammers to establish themselves,...

What is “native advertising” anyway?

by David | Apr 8, 2015 | advertising, Digital Migration

The IAB has published their view. I have my own opinion. One of the biggest problems with “native advertising” is that it is such a new, made-up term of digital art, that it’s taken on an Alice in Wonderland-esque quality, in which the phrase means...

Turning “Likes” into Schwag: American Airlines and Klout

by David | May 8, 2013 | advertising

One in an occasional, erratic and occasionally erratic series Time is money. Image is everything. Manners maketh man. Your reputation precedes you. And now, having a high (enough) Klout score wins you entry into the American Airlines first-class lounge, where you can...
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