Incentive Targeting was founded in February 2007, by Ben Sprecher and Joshua Herzig-Marx. Google has acquired retail coupon marketing platform Incentive Targeting for an undisclosed sum. In an announcement on their homepage, Incentive Targeting...
Up and coming search engine DuckDuckGo raised a round of funding lead by Brad Burnham of Union Square Ventures along with Scott Banister, Jim Young, Jeff Miller, Joshua Schachter, Kal Vepuri, Joshua Stylman and Peter Hershberg.
Contributors come from all over the globe and reflect different specialism within SEO and closely related disciplines and are Alan Bleiweiss, Andrea Scarpetta, Andrew Bleakley, Anthony Verre, Barry Adams, Dana Lookadoo, Danny Sullivan, Dean...
Joshua Siegel, YouTube's Product Manager, Upload and Video Management, encouraged users to tag their video with "yt15minutes," upload it by Wednesday, August 4, and a select handful of people would truly gain their 15 minutes of fame by by being...
Joshua Siegel, Product Manager, Upload and Video Management, said in a blog post that the decision came in response to users' requests and was made possible by the use of Content ID. Bits and bobs to keep up with search engine product updates...
Joshua Siegel, Product Manager, Upload and Video Management, today announced on the Official YouTube Blog "We've increased the upload limit to 15 minutes. Andy Warhol said in 1968 that "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.
Joshua Palau is off this week. Remember, it's OK to teach your clients how to do your job if it's in their best interest. However, agencies must understand how SEO plays into the overall search strategy, even if you're handing over the keys to the...
I ended last year by swiftly showing 2009 the door. Regardless of client or industry, no one seemed sad to see 2009 retire into the sunset. So here we are in 2010, and I get to make a bunch of predictions that I won't be held accountable for, which...
The economy, unemployment, war, H1N1, Jon and Kate, Tiger Woods and Michael Jackson dominated the headlines this year. It was a year that mixed pop cultural minutiae with the harsh realities of our political and economic landscapes.
Joshua Palau is off this week. Meet Joshua at SES Chicago on December 7-11, 2009. When I started working in the search space, it boggled my mind that companies and agencies had such a hard time understanding and leveraging the synergies of paid and...
It seems as though you can't pick up a magazine or listen to a news report without someone chiming in on how there are "signs of hope" for the economy. And these economic conversations seemingly break into two camps.
"Integrating Search, Part 1" focused on why search is sometimes separated in an agency and how to begin addressing it. The goal was to convey that, while search is a specialty like media and creative, there are organizational and client benefits to...
What are the pros and cons of specialty agencies versus integrated ones? Some believe that, while they may deliver subject matter expertise, specialty agencies may be less focused on the bigger strategic picture.
This past weekend, I introduced my oldest to her first official game of Monopoly. We've played other children's versions before, but this was a full on, old school battle down Ventnor Avenue complete with Luxury Tax and Free Parking.
The "O" means a lot of things to a lot of people. For some, it's a veiled double entendre that is the basis of the Overstock.com commercials. To others, it's more straightforward. In the agency world it's.wait for it.offshoring.
During a recent conversation with a few clients, they surprised me by remarking, "Well, search really isn't all that innovative. Their rationale: for the better part of the last 10 years, there have been only three engines (and depending on your...
SEMs from around the world descended upon San Jose this week for the Search Engine Strategies 2009 Conference & Expo. SES San Jose, in its 11th year, featured 70 sessions and boasted a whopping 150 speakers discussing topics including PPC, keyword...
Ben Parr over at Mashable dugg up the news (no pun intended) on Delicious founder Joshua Schachter regretting ever selling Delicious to Yahoo! He said: I wish I had not sold it to them. The cash and freedom do not even come close; I would rather...
I've seen some pretty interesting things in 13 years of online marketing. This industry is at once rewarding, innovative, and frustrating. But the current recession has taught me more about people, work, and this industry than I've learned at any...
Joshua Palau, vice president of the search engine marketing office at Razorfish (an interactive ad agency acquired by Microsoft in 2007) sees an opportunity ripe with potential for Microsoft now. Not surprisingly, marketers, search engine...
