December 2nd, 2012

Native Ads In 2013: Scale, Headlines As Banners, Mobile, Samsung, And Yahoo

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Editor’s note: Dan Greenberg is the founder & CEO of Sharethrough, the native video advertising company.

Five months ago, I published an article on TechCrunch that provided the first framework for the emerging Native Advertising market. At the time, “native advertising” (a term coined by Fred Wilson) was a new name for an old concept — monetization models that emerge from the… → Read More

July 26th, 2012

Facebook Q2: Ad Sales Of $992M, Creeps Up To 84% Of $1.18B Revenue Total

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Facebook is making a big effort to diversify its revenue generation into areas like payments around gaming and other services, but today the game is still ads-ads-ads, and it’s growing. In its Q2 earnings which have just come out, Facebook reported advertising revenue of $992 million. That works out to 84% of  its total quarterly revenues of $1.18 billion.

Looking back to Facebook’s S-1→ Read More

July 18th, 2012

Facebook Earns 58% More Per Ad Than Last Year, Mobile Ads Clicked 4X More Than Twitter Ads

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Facebook yesterday saw a decline in share price on a report of falling user numbers in key markets like the U.S. and Europe, but in a sign of how it is firming up its business, Facebook is also making significantly more money and getting more sticky with its advertising, on the back of newer, more targeted ad formats like Sponsored Stores and mobile ads. The latest quarterly report from ad agency… → Read More