2. Hello, I’m Jonathan Mendez, Founder & CEO of Yieldbot Twitter: @jonathanmendez Company: Yieldbot (www.yieldbot.com) Location: New York City Blog: Optimize & Prophesize (search “jonathan mendez”) 2006-2008 2008-2010+
3. History Lesson # 1 “People don’t read ads. People read what interests them. Sometimes that an ad.” - Howard Gossage
4. History Lesson # 2 “I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form but as a medium of information” - David Ogilvy
5. History Lesson # 3 “What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention ...and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.” Herb Simon: Computers, Communications and the Public Interest. 1971!!!
29. 2008-2009 Efficiency & Performance “The gap is widening between spending on simple search ads and display ads. Search ad spending is on track to reach $10.4 billion this year, double what will be spent on display ads.” - eMarketer, 2008
72. The Wave is Crashing on Pubs Market Results: More inventory, lower prices Strategic Result: Cookie users to serve impression in lower cost inventory