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ICO Advertising On Google

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Google just banned ICO and cryptocurrency-related advertising. I never understood why ICO advertising has been allowed. Forbes covered this extensively and by the time firms collapsed and people went to jail I had a healthy skepticism about broad-based advertising and promotion scheme around any financial instrument.

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Pantheon for Agencies

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Every time a marketing team works with a web design firm, there is the usual painful and broken handoff between the outside agency and the technical operations of the client which culminate on launch day. Websites are a huge industry that is now bigger than digital advertising business, much of which is serviced by digital agencies (e.g.

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The Price of Free is Actually Too High

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“We cannot afford the advertising business model. ” The article ends with a parallel quote from Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web. The web that many connected to years ago is not what new users will find today. The idea of advertisers targeting users of free services based on data is, well, not new.

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Facebook As The Ultimate Surveillance Machine

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“What this means is that even more than it is in the advertising business, Facebook is in the surveillance business. “Ultimately, the difference in Google and Facebook’s approaches to the web — and in the case of the latter, to user data — suggest how the duopolists will ultimately be regulated.

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Books I Read On My Q214 Vacation

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On day three, when I’m not looking at email, anything on the web, or checking my phone, I just breathe deeply and say “wow I needed this vacation.” Amy reminds me that I say that on day three of each of our quarterly weeks off the grid. ” Oh – and I decided to get over my fear of horses.

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How To Predict The Future

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By day he works on web and social media for HP. Who will sell the advertising space in our brains? I also like to calculate these figures myself, even though you can research similar data on the web. Apocalypse , near-term science-fiction novels about realistic ways strong AI might emerge. What OS will they run?

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Introducing BigDoor’s New Cost Per Quest Ad Format

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The BigDoor team believes strongly that gamification should be a profit-center for web publishers and app developers, not a cost-center. Any solution that gives advertisers traffic, publishers money, and users rewards has the promise of being a big win. As a result, they don’t charge for the usage of their API or their widgets.

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