Rob looks at the sudden rise of group buying sites, and hopes someone will get him something from one of these for his birthday.
Rob looks at online international traffic and wonders whether much has changed about how we can make money from it…
Well it’s sort of goodbye from Rob, as he moves to take up a new job. He promises (or is that threatens) to keep the blog going though.
Rob apologises for the gap between blogs, and argues that looking at performance marketing in isolation from other parts of the promotional and branding jigsaw is a mistake that can skew understanding of effectiveness.
Mobile monetization hits fever pitch. Does this herald a paradim shift or just unwarrented excitement over the new new thing
Rob’s take on reputation management, whether it’s online or offline, bad news travels fast
A rant on social media, and how difficult it is to measure the success of engagement
Will the predict overall rise in marketing spend herald a boom time for online advertising? Will Rob write something interesting…
The Google cashback April fool. How I was taken in and how foolish I feel
Rob Kelly’s take on the announcement of the proposed sale or closure of Bebo. Was this inevitable, or is it another example of AOL’s hubris
Does managing the longtail need a big network, discuss…
Is the current mania for paywalls, simply a reaction to the ongoing revenue falls in display advertising?
The age of mobile monetization has probably finally dawned. How it will develop though is still far from certain.
Snipped on recent figures stating the weekly US Facebook traffic exceeded that for US Google traffoc for the first time ever.
Well I’ve been writing this blog for quite a few months now, and to be honest I’m not sure for how much longer I’m going to continue. One things I’ve noticed about online monetization is that there’s an awful lot of noise generated on the subject, which has had precious little impact on how business [...]
Will keeping payments on site rather than redirecting through merchants increase the amount that sites can make from their audience
Short commentary on the two differing views of paywalls been shown by the rival chief executives from Trinity Mirror and FT.com
Now with new Newsroom style backdrop
A very quick commentary on the news that Buy.at is to be spun out of AOL and purchased by Axel Spinger, owner of Affiliate Window
What does the inexorable rise of video through the web actually mean?
Wordy video blog about the different valuations for online traffic.
Will Andy Andreou help Quidco achieve on it’s ambitions
A quick blog on the recent NMA article about the increasing interest in social media for performance marketing
Urban Gillstrom new CEO at TradeDoubler