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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. further down the sales funnel from CPC advertising where you pay for a click but still need to convert on your own).

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Interview with Tim Cadogan, OpenX

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Tim is the former head of Yahoo's Global Advertising Marketplaces unit, overseeing Display, Search and Video, and was VP of Search at Overture. They can sell those ads on a CPM, CPC, or CPA basis. We run it through our exchange, OpenX Market, which is in simple terms a stock market for online media.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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He presented a system where your search results would be ranked based on companies bidding for placement and where merchants would be charged on a “cost per click” basis (CPC). He built & IPOd Demand Media. The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here.