The move echoes a similar confirmed-click format on text ads instituted several years ago.
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But search advertising--the small text ads placed beside search results--show signs of relative health.
Look up "puppies" on Google and you'll see text ads for kennel clubs and pet-adoption services.
In return, users agree to allow small text ads to be placed in their e-mails.
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Now, Google text ads are almost ubiquitous and for some people, they have even become a nuisance.
"Unlike text ads, you can't read the text and then click afterwards to get more information, " he says.
CMOs now have more creative options online beyond text ads, including image, video and interactive ads, Kallayil says.
These pages generate related text ads that monetize the traffic visiting the sites, but they are usually low value to end users.
Then, everything I learned in the cost-effective medium of text ads, we carried over into our display, video and eventually offline channels.
Bing Network Contextual Ads, will allow websites to run text ads (like those pictured on the top right) from the Yahoo!
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He tried out banner ads, text ads, a search box and taglines.
The most prevalent ads throughout the company's beta test were short video spots from Esurance, but the network will also provide contextual and text ads.
At the time, Google had four people working on AdWords, a program for selling the small text ads that appear next to related search results.
Google has historically attracted "higher quality"--or better written--text ads than Yahoo!
But search engines have proved since 2004 that targeted text ads are a far more effective method of wringing dollars from the Web than display advertising.
For us, one of the most important aspects was how Facebook is not simply relying on banner or text ads that appear on the side of the page.
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Blinkx released a tool Wednesday that lets online publishers place targeted text ads in any video embedded on a Web site based on the actual content of the video.
Another eMarketer study in October found that video spending grew 47.2% in 2007, more than either pictorial display ads or the text ads that appear next to search results.
More recently, ads have worked their way into the content itself, with in-text ads from networks like Vibrant and Kontera and transparent in-video ads on services like YouTube.
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Google could use the company to expand its advertising service from small text ads to multimedia display ads and offer more advertising options to a larger network of Web pages.
By giving away its site's traffic in exchange for more video views, Google is likely betting on the future of "in-stream" advertising--video ad clips or pictorial ads overlaid on videos--rather than the display ads or text ads that typically appear on Google's sites.
The phone might be able to list the locations of several nearby and the service provider might charge a certain gas station a few dollars to put it at the head of the line in that list in the same way Google.com charges for its search-based text ads.
On the registration page, you supply the link to your AdWords account and permission to access it, and in about a minute, the tool analyzes your data and runs a report comparing your behavior (such as, do you have multiple text ads running) and results to that of others in your spending bracket.
Its software allows video creators to embed instructions for the player to show several kinds of advertising in videos, including pre-roll video ads, text ticker ads that run along the bottom of the image, and small clips displayed in the corner of a video.
Blinkx software "listens to" and "watches" the video, then inserts text overlay ads based on the spoken words and to some extent, the images in the clip.
Text-heavy magazine ads from Omnicom ad agency BBDO Detroit will explain how small diesels work.
Phonevalley's Alexandre Mars says that both mobile banner ads and text-based campaigns have the advantage of being easy to scale.
For the time being, most of the ads on its network are still text messages, although it has begun displaying ads on Vodafone live!
The firm has also offered free video games punctuated with ads to customers in Greece, and free text messages to Czech students who agree to accept ads in the same format.
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