Archive for April, 2008

Monday, April 28th, 2008

CPM

CPM. The cost of 1,000 of just about anything…in our world the cost of 1,000 viewers/listeners/readers/experiencers… and a monetary metric that has been in use since the first thousand cave dwellers trooped by to look at the paintings…

  • An affiliate system doesn’t need incentive pricing. It’s inherent in the system. A properly aligned affiliate website will simply bring in more clicks, leads or sales, resulting in higher payouts. A misaligned affiliate website will get little or nothing. That's already more or less how we do things here when we run targeted campaign (still CPM based). It seemed kind ...
  • That you can rich out of Cts is clear -- look at Yahoo -- As you get closer to teh deal and teh CPM goes up it again begs teh question if you have teh right allowable -- Id pay way more to by-pass all the crap and get right to a customer -- No?
  • Stephen quotes some rates (clickthru at 0.3%, conversion at 1%), and then some better rates (2% and 2%). This is where management of the front end (acquisition?) comes in. Clearly some affiliates are working much better than others. Time for incentive pricing? Any idea whether sales after the first one (of a typical 3, at $250 each) come via clickthrus, ...
Monday, April 21st, 2008

Here is a Question

Here is a question – what do leaders do?

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Escalators

Where are you in the debate?

How do you watch video content?