In general, you could say that there are two types of advertising: brand advertising and performance advertising.

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Performance advertising, on the other hand, is measured and paid based on some metric of success: a click, a purchase, etc.

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This trend is readily evident in the IAB Internet spending reports for the last three years, where performance based advertising has gained share at the expense of impression based advertising models.

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