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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:21:49 -0700

What If You Ran an Ad, and Nobody Saw It?

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:27:43 -0700

Jacob Jakob Nielsen knows web users. The Nielsen/Norman Group, which he co-founded, has tested thousands of sites. It’s watched more than 3,000 users try to perform tasks online, even following their eyes to see where they look. And he has some frightening news:

Nobody looks at picture advertising.

Nielsen, in a keynote address at the inaugural Web Experience Forum in Boston, Mass., said web design is doomed to failure unless we learn from end users. And one major lesson is that other than paid search, ads don’t work.

“We call this banner blindness — people won’t see ads at all,” said Nielsen. “Ads might as well not exist as far as users are concerned, except for search ads.” The number of web users that so much as glance at banner ads, he added, is too small to even quantify.

The findings are no secret to web usability professionals gathered here, who obsess over how consumers use the web. But they’re often ignored by ad buyers.

“For the longest time, the web has been in collective denial of this phenomenon,” said Nielsen. “People still have this old media thinking: They think of the web being similar to TV because it’s on the screen and visual. The main distinction is whether it’s active or passive, not whether it’s on a screen or not.”

Advertising revenues, which pay for much of the web, are having a rough year, with some analysts cutting their estimates for the entire sector.

Nielsen pointed out that paid search still works — partly because it’s relevant, and partly because users aren’t tuning ads out. “We thought we’d find [paid search] box blindness the way we did banner blindness, but that’s not the case. Users are interested in search ads and actually look at them.”

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I run a premium WordPress themes club at ElegantThemes.com, and have just released a new version of one of my themes: StudioBlue. The idea behind this re-release is to expand on the theme's options, and give users more control over their blog. Here is a list of things that I have added:

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2. Optional Blog-style Post Layout

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Google Readies iPhone Ad Options

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:00:12 -0700

Google has presented a new option to show different ads in response to searches made from iPhones. The change, expected to be implemented shortly, means advertisers will be able to create an iPhone ad group as part of their regular search campaign, according to agency executives briefed about the modification.

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Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:54:41 -0700

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Ad industry eyes the iPhone - Oct. 9, 2008

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:04:38 -0700

It's a long time coming, but advertising companies are finally starting to figure out how to serve ads to iPhones; the mobile personal computer finally allows for truly personalized ads.

Obama Campaigning on Xbox 360?

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:06:57 -0700

This is either a brilliant Photoshop job, some canny viral political campaigning, or both: An Xbox 360 gamer playing Burnout Paradise spotted an Obama campaign billboard with a “Paid for by Obama for President” caption as he whizzed by in his turbocharged sports car, Game Politics is reporting. The site was unable to confirm the ad’s authenticity with Burnout publisher Electronic Arts; I’ve left messages with both EA and the Obama campaign and will update this post if we get confirmation either way.

Its veracity aside, the virtual billboard raises an interesting question: Are political ads in video games a good idea? In terms of eyeballs, I’d have to say yes. Roughly one-third of American households own an Xbox 360, Sony PS3 or Nintendo Wii. In terms of effectiveness, Brandweek recently detailed a survey undertaken by its fellow Nielsen Games division in which 11 percent of gamers said they bought a brand after seeing it advertised in a game.

Of course, buying a brand of shoes or soda is a totally different prospect than buying a politician’s brand in the polling booth. And young voters — the kind most likely to notice an in-game ad — are also the least likely to show up on Election Day.

At the very least, however, several gamer sites are now excitedly talking about the Obama billboard, which translates into some level of viral messaging success. It’s certainly a better idea than John McCain’s Pork Invaders, a knock-off of a video game that was popular when Sen. McCain was already in his 40s.

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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:04:49 -0700

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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:05:40 -0700

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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:02:41 -0700

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UBS Turns Sour on Advertising, Even Online

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:00:38 -0700

It has been a summer of discontent for publicly traded Internet companies, whose shares have nosedived in tandem with the broader market. And the group — led by Google and Yahoo, both of which saw double-digit declines in the last month — is not going to be dancing in the streets any time soon.

Or at least that is what Ben Schachter, Internet analyst with UBS, thinks. In an astoundingly sobering note to his clients this morning, he cut his estimates on his entire portfolio of coverage:

we are also lowering our estimates and price targets across the board to reflect a deteriorating macro-economic environment that we expect will inevitably impact the online advertising market and consumer spending, likely continued unfavorable foreign currency fluctuations (at least in the near-term), as well as other company-specific factors.

In a rather brutal assessment, he wrote, “[W]e see no business model based on advertising or consumer spending that will be immune to a downturn. Specifically for the advertising names, as corporate profit forecasts come down, we expect planned advertising spending will be delayed and/or cut.”

UBS also had the following thoughts on the third quarter of 2008:

September was difficult.
Google held up better than others, though Schachter still thinks that results might be below expectations.
Stronger dollar is going to cause issues for guys like Google.
More cautious on 3Q results from Yahoo and ValueClick

Looking beyond to the fourth quarter of 2008 and 2009, UBS noted more optimistically, “[W]e think that the continuing shift to online will be somewhat accelerated by the macro weakness.”

Now here we are talking long term, and even as I trust Ben’s analysis, I am one of those folks who is assuming the absolute worse. Why? Because these are irrational times. Guys, General Motors has a market valuation that is lower than its value in 1930. Yahoo is a company that is likely to hit a massive air pocket, because it is highly exposed to financial- and automobile-related advertising.

Regardless, Schachter sees no near-term bottom in sight for the Internet stocks and is advising that people don’t try and catch a falling knife. In particular he was sour on ValueClick, an online advertising network. I think this is a bad sign for all advertising networks out there, especially the startups that are trying to get traction in this market. He did point out that Google will get beefier and bigger in these lean times.

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Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:53:52 -0700

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Coors sued for $12.5 million over iPhone app | Creativity Online

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What If You Ran an Ad, and Nobody Saw It?

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Logo Designs for $10-$100

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Obama Campaigning on Xbox 360?

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