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18 Dec 2014

Bionic Doubles Down on Old School Media Planning

By |2023-03-04T14:26:33-05:00December 18th, 2014|Categories: Bionic for Agencies News, News|Tags: , , |

To fully prepare you for final episodes of Mad Men coming this spring, Bionic has doubled down on tools for old school media planning. Back in April, you got a bunch of features to enable media planning in traditional media channels like TV, radio, magazine, newspaper, billboards, and more. Now, [...]

14 Nov 2014

True Story: Banner Advertising that Actually Works!

By |2017-12-26T15:35:02-05:00November 14th, 2014|Categories: Thoughts|

Like most of you in digital advertising, I read stories of dismal statistics in online display advertising, reports that you are more likely to survive a plane crash than click a banner ad, and the steady drumbeat of "banner advertising is dead." The reports of its death have been greatly [...]

5 Nov 2014

The Revolt Against the “Inefficiency Tax” in Digital Advertising

By |2023-03-04T14:21:51-05:00November 5th, 2014|Categories: Thoughts|Tags: |

Advertisers are revolting against wasting huge portions of their digital advertising budgets on “non-working media.” The process of buying digital advertising is notoriously inefficient; Google estimates we are wasting $3.6 million per hour using our current methods. On Monday, I had the privilege of kicking off the "Breaking Down Data" [...]

25 Sep 2014

Fraud and the Programmatic Direct Pivot

By |2023-03-04T14:59:40-05:00September 25th, 2014|Categories: Thoughts|Tags: , |

There has been a lot of talk about the pervasive amount of click fraud and bot traffic happening in digital. Marketers are reportedly spending anywhere from 30% to 70% of their digital budgets on fake impressions and clicks, and an entire cottage industry is cropping up to help marketers combat [...]