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The state of Online Advertising 2.0 - part 1: Microhoo?

February 2nd, 2008 SkyHorse

Microhoo!So after Yahoo stocks hit an almost all time low, Microsoft did what they do best: snap the competition up. And what a catch they had this time! Yahoo, founded in the very early 90s (saw its first million page views in 1994) by two Stanford grads, is now one of the top contenders in the “new media advertising industry” heavyweight championship, industry which is estimated to be worth £1.3 Billion ($2.5 Billion USD) at present in the UK alone with an additional £8 billion ($17 billion) in the US in the end of 2006.

So what is Microsoft really buying into?

Yahoo has survived and strived by being able to keep up with the Joneses (aka Google) even if they didn’t really innovate. Microsoft on the other hand right now is simply an “also-ran” on Web 2.0. What Yahoo enjoyed simplyfing (web mail, directory index, online games) Microsoft enjoyed ‘businessfying’ (remember HoTMaiL before Microsoft?). And with their platform-agnostic approach it’s no surprise Mac users have much higher affinity to Yahoo products and services than anyone else’s. Yahoo is the Apple of web 2.0, lifestyle included. Just look at their acquisitions: Photo-sharing with Flickr, del.icio.us social bookmarking, blogging site MyBlogLog, BuzzTracker, Rivals.com, Upcoming.org, video editing JumpCut, Blo.gs, Bix.com.

But Yahoo isn’t just a lifestyle brand. It was also gearing up to online advertising in a big way, and has been doing so for a while with even more acquisitions that started with Overture in 2003 and followed by TeRespondo (brazilian ad network), AdInterax and more recently RightMedia and BlueLithium.

So, who’s left?

There’s Google, AOL and possibly WPP. Really that’s it. Everyone else left in the online advertising space is a horde of small and medium size players either filling a niche spot or waiting to become the “next big thing”. But some other contenders may have not emerged yet. If say an E-bay or Amazon decided to buy some of these small fish, they could certainly come into the game. One interesting ‘fish’ that hasn’t made any significant move in this space is Apple. Apple cannot be sleeping, but what are they waiting for?

Apple Ads?

They have been selling iPods and iPhones like hotcakes and now have significant cash reserves ($15.4 billion). With analysts predicting they will grow 23% a year for the next five years everyone is saying they must take it out of Reno and invest it somewhere in the next 12 months. Where exactly is leaving people divided.

To be continued… “The state of Online Advertising - part 2″

Tags: amazon, aol, apple, ebay, microsoft, online media, online-advertising, wpp, yahoo

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Yet another BT company bites the hook: Yahoo! Acquires BlueLithium

September 5th, 2007 SkyHorse

So, another Behavioural Targeting company bites the hook. Yahoo! announced yesterday that it reached an agreement to buy BlueLithium for roughly $300 Million in cash (£150 Million), apparently making Gurbaksh Chahal, BlueLithium’s Chairman and CEO, a very happy man at 25. But despite his young age this is not all new to him, as his previous company ClickAgents founded when he was only 18 followed the same steps and eventually got merged with ValueClick, making it the largest ad network at the time. Good for you mate, keep us posted on what you’re up to next, as no one believes you’ll stick around BL for very long.

Yahoo! Announces Agreement to Acquire BlueLithium: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

Tags: behavioural-targeting, bluelithium, online media, web-marketing, yahoo

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Advertisers pulling out of Facebook: Reaction reaction reaction

August 18th, 2007 SkyHorse

It was going to happen sooner or later. After BBC’s Panorama report on the people, sites and advertisers behind some of the worst ‘user-generated’ content on the UK web space it took just a few days for the fire to spread to the marketing director’s desk and for him to call off any ads placed next to questionable content. I can imagine the 7 year old kids (that’s how young on-line media buyers start working these days, according to industry veterans) frantically searching for all the ‘bad’ pages before the journalists or competitors had the chance to find them.
They missed the BNP group page on Facebook. So, advertisers pulled out of the entire site. I remember that day, the day I opened several pages on Facebook and I managed to not have a single ad being displayed. I immediately shouted “overreaction”, to which Mr. T. who I was next to me retorted that marketing directors couldn’t care less and all they probably did was pick up the phone and hail “STOP” out loud. That’s how it works in media, reaction reaction reaction.

But I don’t think online media is the same as regular media. A web page is not an outdoor, in the sense that it does not exist per se, it is only ‘created’ when someone visits it. When you say ‘RBS ads were seen on the BNP page on Facebook’ its not like someone happened to walk nearby and saw that ad next to BNP supporting material. What you really mean is ’someone opened the BNP group page on Facebook and they got an RBS ad at the same time’. The small difference is that someone went to that page, on purpose. We could criticize the BNP itself, or defend it, but that is not the point here, as it seems to be in the general discussion about this topic. The point is RBS was advertising a service, not to benefit the BNP financially (no one gets financial gains from the advertising on Facebook but Facebook themselves, at least for now) but to reach an audience that could be -or not- supportive of that political viewpoint. Is this wrong? I don’t think so. To me it is analogous to putting up an outdoor near a community that support the BNP: would you even think twice about it? Since the ads do not benefit the political group but only Facebook I honestly don’t know what the whole fuss is about. But maybe that’s because I’m a techie…

Tags: ads, advertisers, BNP, facebook, marketing, online media, page, politics, RBS, social-networking, user-generated-content, Web Design, web-2.0, web-marketing

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