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  • Lead Quality:

    A few months ago, I was talking about the state of online lead quality with the head of performance marketing for one of the top interactive agencies. I asked him to sum up his view on the type of relationship that lead sellers and buyers…

  • Evolution of the Quality Score – Part 1

    A little more than a week ago, beginning November 6, 2006, Google unveiled its fourth Quality Score announcement. If you don’t advertise on Google, this might not mean to much to you, but if you do advertise on Google, especially if…

  • Evolution of the Quality Score – Part 2

    With the Quality Score, Google has found a masterful way to make more money from its advertisers in the name of more relevant ads. As an advertiser, it comes down to one thing, the higher the Quality Score, the lower the actual…

  • What’s in a Follow-Up?

    Now that Ad:Tech New York is over, the fun begins. We’re now one week past the show, and if you attended, it’s well past time for all of those dreadful follow-ups. It’s time to kick it in gear (especially if you haven’t yet) and really explore…

  • Cheerios Puts Books in 5 Million Boxes

    General Mills said today that it is repeating its Spoonful of Stories campaign for the fifth year, putting 5 million kids’ books inside boxes of Cheerios cereal.

  • P&I Postcripts

    WYNDHAM HOTEL GROUP: is rewarding members of its…THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: has debuted a…COMDATA CORP.: a company that offers…LOYALTY LAB: San Francisco, has hired…

  • Court TV Brings Murder to Viewers in New Campaign

    Court TV is invoking a bit of murder mayhem under a new marketing campaign that seeds mysterious messages to unsuspecting consumers.

  • Huge Popularity of MyCoke Rewards Pushes Extension of Program

    MyCoke Rewards has extended the expiration date for the program due to its overwhelming popularity.

  • Assessing Ad:Tech

    When Experian purchased LowerMyBills creating Experian Interactive, the lead generation company had reached a size and scale that seemed tough to increase. Yet, both companies will most likely share the fact that LMB, as it’s…

  • Wikipedia Gets Bad Press

    Antivirus vendor Sophos published a notice last Friday indicating that malicious code was being spread by way of the German version of Wikipedia. The code was found in links to a fix on the page for the “Lovesan/MSBlast…