Is it art or is it advertising or is it art?

这是艺术呢，还是广告呢，还是艺术呢？

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If you're in need of a website with a clear commercial focus-be it advertising-supported or sales-driven-put your focus on the majority of your site visitors.

如果你需要的是一个有着清晰的商务目标的网站-一个广告网站或促销网站，将注意力集中在网站的主要访客吧。

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You may not like it but advertising sells.

你可以不喜欢广告，但它能促销。

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It was that companies talked about their products through advertisements on radio instead of buying advertising space in newspapers.

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So, we should use that, but people in finance resist using that because it's a lower number and when you're advertising your return you want to make it look as big as possible.

所以我们应该用这个指标,但金融界反感使用几何平均,因为它比其他平均数都来得小,他们为自己的收益率做广告时,当然希望数字越大越好

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but as far as I understand it, they, a large share of their operating budget goes to advertising,

但是照我的理解，它们，很大一部分经营预算都给了广告，

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And more recently, we have seen people-focused advertising (be it through advertising on social networks or signup ads) grow as marketers look to engage people in ways that are relevant to them.

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Advertisers do this because it makes advertising more relevant and all data show that for people that know how to use it, data-driven targeting is a lot more accurate and gets users clicking on advertisements way more.

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Meanwhile, Moore jibed at Microsoft (and implicitly, Google), by noting that the company, while running Facebook's ads, has a conflict of interest in the advertising business because it has purchased advertising agencies.

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