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Online advertising is a form of promotional advertising that uses the Internet and World Wide Web for the expressed purpose of delivering marketing messages to attract customers. Examples of online advertising include contextual ads on search engine results pages, banner ads, Rich Media Ads, Social network advertising, interstitial ads, online classified advertising, advertising networks and e-mail marketing.
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Display advertising is a type of advertising that typically contains text (i.e., copy), logos, photographs or other images, location maps, and similar items. In periodicals, display advertising can appear on the same page as, or on the page adjacent to, general editorial content. In contrast, classified advertising generally appears in a distinct section, was traditionally text-only, and was available in a limited selection of typefaces.
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A web banner or banner ad is a form of advertising on the World Wide Web. This form of online advertising entails embedding an advertisement into a web page. It is intended to attract traffic to a website by linking to the website of the advertiser.
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Contextual advertising is a form of targeted advertising for advertisements appearing on websites or other media, such as content displayed in mobile browsers. The advertisements themselves are selected and served by automated systems based on the content displayed to the user.
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E-mail marketing is a form of direct marketing which uses electronic mail as a means of communicating commercial or fundraising messages to an audience. In its broadest sense, every e-mail sent to a potential or current customer could be considered e-mail marketing. However, the term is usually used to refer to:
- sending e-mails with the purpose of enhancing the relationship of a merchant with its current or previous customers and to encourage customer loyalty and repeat business,
- sending e-mails with the purpose of acquiring new customers or convincing current customers to purchase something immediately,
- adding advertisements to e-mails sent by other companies to their customers, and
- sending e-mails over the Internet
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CPM is frequently used in advertising to represent cost per mille (thousand). When used in online advertising it relates to the Cost per (thousand) impressions.
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Ad sizes have been standardised to some extent by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB); they are:
Sky: 120x600
Wide Sky: 160x600
Leaderboard: 728x90
Medium Rectangle: 300x250
Banner: 468x60
Half Page: 300x600
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The Interactive Advertising Bureau (or IAB) is an advertising business organization that develops industry standards, conducts research, and provides legal support for the online advertising industry.
www.iabaustralia.com.au
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A Share of Voice is a brand's or group of brands' advertising weight expressed as a percentage of a defined total market or market segment in a given time period. Percentage of advertising for one brand in a particular product category as compared to other brands in the same category. If five different brand names advertise in one product category and the percentage of advertising for one of them is 60% of the total volume of advertising in that product category, that brand will have the greatest share of voice (in that product category).
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The Click Through URL on any oneline advertising campaign is the web page link or website domain name where the advertising campaign links to when teh user clicks on the display ad.