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Malaysiakini doubles revenue with premium ad strategies

In the past year, independent news website Malaysiakini has been able to double its revenue, from an already healthy base, through a relentless pursuit of premium advertising. Malaysiakini’s senior advertising manager, Chia Ting Ting,…

//September 28 / 2012 //read more

Schibsted finds ad success through data-driven targeting

Digital advertising revenue has risen globally by 55 percent in the last five years, but much of that increase has gone to search engines and social networks. To compete for this rising pool of revenue, news organisations need to provide…

//September 28 / 2012 //read more

Measuring and optimising Google AdSense campaigns

Google’s advertising network, AdSense, has a number of services available to help you measure how effective the ad campaigns earning revenue for your site are performing, and insights into how to make them perform better. We go through…

//August 28 / 2012 //read more

How to get started with Google AdSense

Ad networks can be an important element to building revenue for your site. In many markets, Google AdSense is the dominant ad network. This step-by-step guide shows you how to setup an AdSense account and put your first ad on your website.

//August 28 / 2012 //read more

Launching, evolving and sustaining your digital media product

In June’s Digital Briefing, we talked about developing a product mindset to help you identify audience needs so that you can set your digital priorities, and this month we look at what you’ll need to launch, evolve and sustain your digital…

//July 31 / 2012 //read more

What you can learn from Microsoft’s advertising failure

Tech giant Microsoft has been forced to write off billions from an online display ad business it bought in 2007. The digital display ad market has changed dramatically in the last five years, and you can learn a lot from Microsoft’s…

//July 11 / 2012 //read more

Advertisers and publishers look to tap rising smartphone use in India

In India, as in many other emerging markets, the explosive growth in smartphone usage is leading advertisers to seek innovative ad formats and designs tailored to this new medium. Services like real-time bidding and competitive auctions…

//June 28 / 2012 //read more

Online Advertising: What hasn’t changed

After spending 8 years out of the business, digital entrepreneur Rags Gupta highlights some of the things that haven’t changed now that he’s back with a new media publishing start-up. Things like the resilience of banner ads, the…

//June 20 / 2012 //read more

Mobile phone association launches global data portal

We often talk about the mobile revolution here on Knowledge Bridge. But just how big of an opportunity does mobile present in your country? Now you have a service to help answer that question with a new free data portal created by the GSM…

//June 15 / 2012 //read more

Clean design gives ads more impact

With online ad rates so low, the temptation for news publishers is to load pages with all the ads they can. But research shows that cluttered pages lessen the impact of ads. Clean pages enhance ad and site perception, increase dwell time…

//June 15 / 2012 //read more