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Affinity marketing

Affinity marketing: This is an umbrella term for any marketing approach that extrapolates possible future purchases from past ones, e.g. Amazon’s customers who bought items like this also bought…’ recommendations.  

Affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing: An advertising system based on the CPA (Cost Per Action) payment method, where websites display advertisers’ banners for free but receive payment when registrations or sales result from click throughs.

Advertorial

Advertorial: An advertisement designed to blend in with the appearance and tone of the editorial content it runs alongside. Advertorials are designed to appear as articles to a person viewing the

Ad units

Ad units: These refer to the different types of ads which appear online, including banners, interstitials, pop-ups, skyscrapers and text links.                    

Ad space

Ad space: The area on a web page set aside for the display of ads. Google, Yahoo and Bing offer ad space services. The ads are usually set up to correspond

Ad server

Ad server: Normally operated by a third party, an ad server delivers and tracks ads on websites. Ad servers perform a useful role in building trust between advertisers and publishers since

Ad network

Ad network: An advertising company that brokers deals between online publishers and advertisers. Bigger ad networks aggregate sites into general categories so that they can offer advertisers targeted markets. Ad networks

Ad flight

Ad flight: The total length of an advertising campaign. There is no standard time frame for how long a certain ad can run. Generally speaking, however, the same ad tends to

Acquisition Cost

Acquisition Cost – The cost of gaining a new customer. Advertisers consider the amount of revenue potential from a potential customer over a life time to determine maximum acquisition cost. This

Above the fold

Above the fold: Any area of a web page that can be viewed without visitors having to scroll. Ad space in this area tends to have a higher value than that

Affinity marketing

Affinity marketing: This is an umbrella term for any marketing approach that extrapolates possible future purchases from past ones, e.g. Amazon’s customers who bought items like

Affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing: An advertising system based on the CPA (Cost Per Action) payment method, where websites display advertisers’ banners for free but receive payment when registrations

Advertorial

Advertorial: An advertisement designed to blend in with the appearance and tone of the editorial content it runs alongside. Advertorials are designed to appear as articles

Ad units

Ad units: These refer to the different types of ads which appear online, including banners, interstitials, pop-ups, skyscrapers and text links.          

Ad space

Ad space: The area on a web page set aside for the display of ads. Google, Yahoo and Bing offer ad space services. The ads are

Ad server

Ad server: Normally operated by a third party, an ad server delivers and tracks ads on websites. Ad servers perform a useful role in building trust

Ad network

Ad network: An advertising company that brokers deals between online publishers and advertisers. Bigger ad networks aggregate sites into general categories so that they can offer

Ad flight

Ad flight: The total length of an advertising campaign. There is no standard time frame for how long a certain ad can run. Generally speaking, however,

Acquisition Cost

Acquisition Cost – The cost of gaining a new customer. Advertisers consider the amount of revenue potential from a potential customer over a life time to

Above the fold

Above the fold: Any area of a web page that can be viewed without visitors having to scroll. Ad space in this area tends to have