Digital Chameleon Blog

Digital media can play many roles

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

While online media’s heritage was in direct response, the medium can play a variety of roles far beyond simple response. More

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Optimising online advertising campaigns

Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Assuming you're optimising and analysing your campaigns you’ll be able to establish a track record of averages or estimates around metrics such as average CPM, average CTR, and conversion rates based on similar campaigns over similar sites with similar objectives. More

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Develop a reporting scorecard

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Advertisers new to online will often ask how much traffic a campaign should drive to their site. Once you get beyond looking at CTR’s and focus on the “right” measurements, you’ll see that site traffic is irrelevant (unless, of course, the campaign objective is simply to drive traffic!). More

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What's adserving?

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Adservers are used by both online publishers/sellers as well as by agencies/buyers. It may all sound and look complicated, but adservers actually simplify the process of delivering ad campaigns in a couple of basic ways: More

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Online advertising tracking tools

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

When planning an online advertising campaign, there is a great variety of anticipated actions that we can measure - and we need to make sure everyone involved is in agreement as to the measure of “success” in each campaign. Only by doing this can we ensure we’re keeping our eye on the ball during campaign implementation and tracking.  More

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Do you know what you're buying online?

Thursday, August 05, 2010


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Online audience measurement - it's apples and oranges

Wednesday, August 04, 2010

As accountable as the online medium is - there is currently no industry standard for measuring size of audience or “reach” or the online equivalent of a “TARP,” “GRP,” “circulation,” etc. While most will agree that all media measurement systems are flawed in some way, the traditional media have at least agreed on what their mode of measurement is.  While there are some who believe the online/digital medium shouldn’t try to retrofit itself into a comparison with existing (flawed) offline metrics, others believe online/digital won’t see its full potential as an advertising medium until advertisers can compare it alongside other channels they’re familiar with. More

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Figuring out ROI on Social Media

Thursday, April 29, 2010

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"The real impact of auto-page inflation"

Monday, January 18, 2010

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Nielsen launches upgraded NetView panel

Thursday, August 27, 2009

In its first step toward a standard currency for online, Nielsen has unveiled a new and improved Netview panel in Australia.  The process started two years ago when the IAB started the conversation and since then Nielsen has responded to the industry and has been working with the IAB and MFA on the road to a standard currency that has wide industry support.   More

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