Above the Fold: In reference to ad placement in traditional media, such
as newspapers, this defines the top half of a page. On the web, this portion of
the page is viewed without scrolling.
Advertisement or Ad:
Digital creative that is typically interactive. Banners, buttons, interstitials
and key words are all examples of online advertisements. The digital creative
can be text, static graphic, animated graphic, video, audio or other.
Ad or Creative: This means the graphic or text file(s) provided to
Publisher to market on behalf of Advertiser.
Advertiser: Advertiser or advertising agency providing Ads to agency
for use on Publisher's Website.
Ad Network: Historically, an organization charged with the
representation of advertising space for a group of websites for the purpose of
maximizing revenue and minimizing administrative costs through aggregation. The
role of the modern Internet advertising network is to transact, serve, track
and report the distribution of creative from advertisers to publishers using an
efficient, interactive marketplace.
Ad Rotation: Different ads and different ad sources are often
rotated in the same space on a webpage. Ad rotation can be static (one ad per
page view) or dynamic (more than one ad per page view cycled based on elapsed
display time). This is usually done automatically by software on the website.
This function is related to, but different from ad serving provided by a
network.
Ad server: Name for the organization, hardware, and software that
deliver advertising creative to the user’s browser. The ad server typically is
responsible for selecting the appropriate ad to serve by frequency control and
targeting. The ad server also performs a variety of other administrative tasks
including the counting of impressions and clicks, and report generation.
Ad Space: The space on a webpage reserved to display advertising.
Ad View: Impression
on browser.
Affinity Marketing: Marketing efforts aimed at consumers on the basis of
established buying patterns.
Agency: An
organization beholden with the responsibility to design, produce and manage the
advertising for its customers. Agencies that handle digital creative and online
campaigns are typical called interactive agencies. Many agencies handle both
interactive and traditional media.
Affiliate: Typical term for a website that drives traffic to
another website in exchange for a percent of sales from users driven to the
site.
Alternate text: Text that appears while a banner is loading or when a
cursor moves over a banner.
Application Service Provider (ASP): Entities that manage and distribute
services and solutions to customers across a wide area network from a central
data center. Internet advertising networks are sometimes referred to as ASPs.
Applet: A
small application served along with or instead of an image file for the purpose
of executing a specific animation, visual or audio sequence. Some rich media
creative are served using a Java applet. Applets are typically intended to
provide an enhanced web user experience, comparable to a plug-in.
B
Business-to-Business (B2B) Targeting: The targeting of online advertising to
websites that cater to business users, or targeting the business users
directly.
Bandwidth: Digital throughput capacity. A measure of how much digital signal or information can be passed through a device or interconnect. Bandwidth is usually measured in bits per second. A 2400 baud modem can handle 2.4 kilobits per second. A T3 industrial interconnect can handle 45 megabits per second. A 100 base-T Ethernet interconnect can handle 100 mega-bits-per-seconds. Bandwidth is analogous to the size of a water pipe.
Banner: An interactive online advertisement in the form of a graphic image that typically runs across the top or bottom of a webpage, or is positioned in a margin or other space reserved for ads. Banner ads are historically GIF images. Many ads are animated GIFs since animation has been shown to be more effective. The standard banner is 468 pixels wide by 60 pixels high. The standard banner is still the mainstay of online advertising, but is quickly giving up ground to newer, potentially more effective forms of online advertising, such as email and interstitials. See Creative.
Banner Burnout: Overexposure of advertising creative that contributes to a drop in click-through rates. Frequency control reduces burnout for a particular creative or campaign.
Booked Space: Website advertising space that is already sold or otherwise unavailable to receive new campaign commitments.
Branding: A traditional advertising method used to elicit a latent response from a target based on cumulative impressions and positive reinforcement. The most successful brands are considered "trust marks" and enjoy loyal, lifelong customers.
Browser: An application used to access files from the Internet. Common browsers are Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Netscape's Navigator.
Business-to-Business (B2B): Businesses doing business with other businesses. The term is most commonly used in connection with e-commerce and advertising, when you are targeting businesses as opposed to consumers.
Button: An interactive online advertisement in the form of a small graphic image that typically resides in the margin of a webpage. Buttons are typically 88 x 31 pixels. The same button is often recurring for every page view on a particular site. Affiliate programs and sponsorships often use buttons to drive traffic.
Bandwidth: Digital throughput capacity. A measure of how much digital signal or information can be passed through a device or interconnect. Bandwidth is usually measured in bits per second. A 2400 baud modem can handle 2.4 kilobits per second. A T3 industrial interconnect can handle 45 megabits per second. A 100 base-T Ethernet interconnect can handle 100 mega-bits-per-seconds. Bandwidth is analogous to the size of a water pipe.
Banner: An interactive online advertisement in the form of a graphic image that typically runs across the top or bottom of a webpage, or is positioned in a margin or other space reserved for ads. Banner ads are historically GIF images. Many ads are animated GIFs since animation has been shown to be more effective. The standard banner is 468 pixels wide by 60 pixels high. The standard banner is still the mainstay of online advertising, but is quickly giving up ground to newer, potentially more effective forms of online advertising, such as email and interstitials. See Creative.
Banner Burnout: Overexposure of advertising creative that contributes to a drop in click-through rates. Frequency control reduces burnout for a particular creative or campaign.
Booked Space: Website advertising space that is already sold or otherwise unavailable to receive new campaign commitments.
Branding: A traditional advertising method used to elicit a latent response from a target based on cumulative impressions and positive reinforcement. The most successful brands are considered "trust marks" and enjoy loyal, lifelong customers.
Browser: An application used to access files from the Internet. Common browsers are Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Netscape's Navigator.
Business-to-Business (B2B): Businesses doing business with other businesses. The term is most commonly used in connection with e-commerce and advertising, when you are targeting businesses as opposed to consumers.
Button: An interactive online advertisement in the form of a small graphic image that typically resides in the margin of a webpage. Buttons are typically 88 x 31 pixels. The same button is often recurring for every page view on a particular site. Affiliate programs and sponsorships often use buttons to drive traffic.
C
Cache: To
store pages, images, or other items, on a local server or user's computer to speed
the rate at which webpages load. Ads, like other images, are cached unless some
sort of cache-busting technique is used. When ads are cached, they will be
served but will not be counted by an ad server. This can lead ad servers to
under count the number of times a page is viewed, and this can in turn skew
monitoring techniques.
Cache Busting: The process of blocking the caching of certain files to guarantee new delivery from the external server for each page view. Cache busting is necessary for the successful execution on online advertising.
Campaign: A contracted agreement between an advertiser or advertising agency and either a publisher or a representative of a publisher. The campaign is specific to the creative to be published and the issue, or duration of the publication. Online advertising campaigns are defined by a number of variables, including the digital creative, the duration or flight dates, the pricing program, the publishers to be used and any user targeting applied.
Category Targeting: The controlled delivery of creative to categorized websites. Categories focus a campaign to those users most likely to be interested in the products or services being offered, thus increasing the effectiveness of the campaign.
Click, Click-Thru or Click-Through: The activation of a hyperlink using a mouse or other input device. The click-through is essential to the interactivity of online advertising.
Click-Through Rate (or Ratio) (CTR): The rate of activated ads to total ads displayed. A typical CTR is 0.5% (1 in 200). Also called Click-Through Percent (CTP). The click-through rate of advertising creative is one measure of its effectiveness.
Click-through URL: When users click on a banner or text link, the click-through URL is the new destination to which they are directed.
Click Tracking: The process of counting and auditing the clicks for a campaign. Click tracking can be done by a different entity than that which serves the creative.
Commission: The percentage of the advertising fee paid to the Publisher for hosting the creative on their website Typical commissions range from 50 to 75 percent.
Common Gateway Interface (CGI): Interface-creation scripting programs that create webpages in real-time based on dynamic end user interactive data.
Cookie: A cookie is a file used to record and store a variety of information on a user's computer. Cookies are placed by an external source during a certain event, such as the display of an ad. A cookie can be read only by the server in the domain that stored it. Cookies placed by ValueClick Media on user's computers as part of the ad serving process do not collect, store or transmit personally identifiable information. Users can accept or deny cookies, by changing a setting in their browser preferences. The denial of cookies severely limits the customization and interactivity of a user's online experience.
Cost per 1,000 Impressions (CPM): An advertising campaign pricing model based on an estimate of the number of impressions of a particular creative in a particular media at a particular time (TV) or issue (printed media). The vast majority of online banner advertising is priced using the CPM model. The "M" is the Roman numeral for 1,000. The cost is aggregated per thousand for convenience; the cost for individual impressions would be very small. CPM is strongly associated with the "branding" school of marketing.
Cost per Action or Acquisition (CPA): An advertising campaign pricing model based on paying for direct results. The direct correlation between the action taken and the payment for the advertising that led to the action is desirable to advertisers. This model takes many forms (leads, sales, etc.) and is increasing in popularity online due to the ease of implementation and accounting compared to traditional media. CPA is strongly associated with the "direct response" school of marketing. Also called Cost per Transaction
Cost per Click-through (CPC): An advertising campaign pricing model base on paying only for those ads that experience a click-through CPC can be considered a measure of direct response, but is not a measure of true action taken by a user.
Cost per Lead (CPL): A CPA pricing method that typically pays a fixed fee for the acquisition of a customer lead, such as a filled out form or an opt-in email address.
Cache Busting: The process of blocking the caching of certain files to guarantee new delivery from the external server for each page view. Cache busting is necessary for the successful execution on online advertising.
Campaign: A contracted agreement between an advertiser or advertising agency and either a publisher or a representative of a publisher. The campaign is specific to the creative to be published and the issue, or duration of the publication. Online advertising campaigns are defined by a number of variables, including the digital creative, the duration or flight dates, the pricing program, the publishers to be used and any user targeting applied.
Category Targeting: The controlled delivery of creative to categorized websites. Categories focus a campaign to those users most likely to be interested in the products or services being offered, thus increasing the effectiveness of the campaign.
Click, Click-Thru or Click-Through: The activation of a hyperlink using a mouse or other input device. The click-through is essential to the interactivity of online advertising.
Click-Through Rate (or Ratio) (CTR): The rate of activated ads to total ads displayed. A typical CTR is 0.5% (1 in 200). Also called Click-Through Percent (CTP). The click-through rate of advertising creative is one measure of its effectiveness.
Click-through URL: When users click on a banner or text link, the click-through URL is the new destination to which they are directed.
Click Tracking: The process of counting and auditing the clicks for a campaign. Click tracking can be done by a different entity than that which serves the creative.
Commission: The percentage of the advertising fee paid to the Publisher for hosting the creative on their website Typical commissions range from 50 to 75 percent.
Common Gateway Interface (CGI): Interface-creation scripting programs that create webpages in real-time based on dynamic end user interactive data.
Cookie: A cookie is a file used to record and store a variety of information on a user's computer. Cookies are placed by an external source during a certain event, such as the display of an ad. A cookie can be read only by the server in the domain that stored it. Cookies placed by ValueClick Media on user's computers as part of the ad serving process do not collect, store or transmit personally identifiable information. Users can accept or deny cookies, by changing a setting in their browser preferences. The denial of cookies severely limits the customization and interactivity of a user's online experience.
Cost per 1,000 Impressions (CPM): An advertising campaign pricing model based on an estimate of the number of impressions of a particular creative in a particular media at a particular time (TV) or issue (printed media). The vast majority of online banner advertising is priced using the CPM model. The "M" is the Roman numeral for 1,000. The cost is aggregated per thousand for convenience; the cost for individual impressions would be very small. CPM is strongly associated with the "branding" school of marketing.
Cost per Action or Acquisition (CPA): An advertising campaign pricing model based on paying for direct results. The direct correlation between the action taken and the payment for the advertising that led to the action is desirable to advertisers. This model takes many forms (leads, sales, etc.) and is increasing in popularity online due to the ease of implementation and accounting compared to traditional media. CPA is strongly associated with the "direct response" school of marketing. Also called Cost per Transaction
Cost per Click-through (CPC): An advertising campaign pricing model base on paying only for those ads that experience a click-through CPC can be considered a measure of direct response, but is not a measure of true action taken by a user.
Cost per Lead (CPL): A CPA pricing method that typically pays a fixed fee for the acquisition of a customer lead, such as a filled out form or an opt-in email address.
Cost per Action (CPA).
Cost per Sale (CPS): A CPA pricing method that typically pays a transaction percentage for the acquisition of a customer that makes a purchase. See Cost per Action (CPA).
Creative: The materials used in advertising to convey a message. Digital creative can be text, static graphic, animated graphic, video, audio or other. See Banner.
CUME: A broadcast (radio/TV) term that is shorthand for 'net cumulative audience' over a 4-week timespan, based on the total number of unduplicated people reached.
Cost per Sale (CPS): A CPA pricing method that typically pays a transaction percentage for the acquisition of a customer that makes a purchase. See Cost per Action (CPA).
Creative: The materials used in advertising to convey a message. Digital creative can be text, static graphic, animated graphic, video, audio or other. See Banner.
CUME: A broadcast (radio/TV) term that is shorthand for 'net cumulative audience' over a 4-week timespan, based on the total number of unduplicated people reached.
Channel: Categorizes a publisher's content by subject
or market, such as Entertainment, Real Estate, Gaming, or Search. Categories
apply to publisher sites and sections, and both can have multiple channels
assigned.
D
Data Reporting: The
presentation and delivery of publisher website and advertiser campaign data.
Data reporting is typically a combination of tabular and graphic presentation.
Demographics: Statistical data that describes the makeup of a given user base, and includes information such as age range, gender, education levels, and average household income. Demographic data is one of the tools used to match ad space with an advertising campaign.
Digital Creative: Advertising creative that is in digital format. Digital creative is easily stored, retrieved and delivered online. Common forms of digital creative include hypertext, HTML files, GIF image files, MPEG video files and AVI audio files.
Direct Response: A traditional advertising method used to elicit a direct response from a target by providing immediate access to the means to make a purchase. The interactivity of the Internet is ideal for the implementation of direct response advertising campaigns.
Demographics: Statistical data that describes the makeup of a given user base, and includes information such as age range, gender, education levels, and average household income. Demographic data is one of the tools used to match ad space with an advertising campaign.
Digital Creative: Advertising creative that is in digital format. Digital creative is easily stored, retrieved and delivered online. Common forms of digital creative include hypertext, HTML files, GIF image files, MPEG video files and AVI audio files.
Direct Response: A traditional advertising method used to elicit a direct response from a target by providing immediate access to the means to make a purchase. The interactivity of the Internet is ideal for the implementation of direct response advertising campaigns.
Debug log:The debug log shows how the Ad server decides which
creative will win the impression for a given ad call.
Effective CPM (eCPM): A way to calculate publisher earnings across various
pricing models. eCPM is calculated by dividing the total earnings by the number
of page impressions, multiplied by 1000. For example, when a publisher
earns $225 from 75,000 impressions, their eCPM is $3.00.
Even Delivery: The uniform distribution of advertising creative across designated websites and over the flight of the campaign given targeting parameters, if any. Reputable ad serving systems have a variety of methods to maximize even delivery.
Exclusive: A contract that forces a Publisher to sell all specified inventory through a certain channel for a specified period of time. Advertisers can also be bound to purchase media only through a certain channel for a specified period of time. ValueClick Media does not use exclusive contracts.
Exit Transfer: The automatic launch of a browser window containing the advertiser's content triggered by the visitor exiting a particular webpage or website.
Even Delivery: The uniform distribution of advertising creative across designated websites and over the flight of the campaign given targeting parameters, if any. Reputable ad serving systems have a variety of methods to maximize even delivery.
Exclusive: A contract that forces a Publisher to sell all specified inventory through a certain channel for a specified period of time. Advertisers can also be bound to purchase media only through a certain channel for a specified period of time. ValueClick Media does not use exclusive contracts.
Exit Transfer: The automatic launch of a browser window containing the advertiser's content triggered by the visitor exiting a particular webpage or website.
F
Flight/Flight Dates: The time period, and associated start and end dates,
over which an advertising campaign runs.
Frequency: The rate a particular user is exposed to a
particular creative or a particular campaign during a single session or period
of time.
Frequency capping: Is essential to the success of online advertising
campaigns to maximize creative effectiveness.
G
Graphic Interchange
Format (GIF):A common
graphics format that can be displayed on almost all web browsers. GIFs
typically display in 256 colors and have built-in compression. Static or
animated GIF images are the most common form of banner creative.
Geo-targeting: Serving of ads to a particular geographical area or
population segment.
H
Hang: When
a webpage is prevented from loading completely or at all due to a technical
difficulty at the server end or at the user end. Online advertising that is
poorly served may have the tendency to hang pages, thus irritating the user and
publisher alike.
Hit: The
sending of a single file from a web server to a user's computer. Most webpages
contain several files, including all HTML, graphics, audio, etc. Hit is not the
same as impression, page view, or number of unique visitors. Information about
hits is valuable to the provider for server loading and bandwidth predictions,
but used alone, it is of little value as a metric of online advertising, or
online use in general.
Host: The
individual or website that displays online advertising. See Publisher.
Hybrid Campaign: An advertising campaign pricing model base on combining
different individual pricing models into one. A CPM/CPA hybrid campaign
combines the benefits of branding and direct response into the same campaign.
The relative weighting of each individual model is adjustable within the hybrid
campaign, and can be modified during the campaign run to maximize ROI.
Hyperlink: The foundation of online interactivity. This is the
clickable link in text or graphics on a webpage that takes you to another place
on the same page, another page, or another website.
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML): A coding language used to make hypertext
documents for use online.
Hypertext: The text version of the hyperlink.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP): The networking protocol that allows
hyperlinks to work.
I
Impression: The display of a single creative to a consumer on a
website, also called an ad or page impression. A single page view can have more
than one impression if there is more than one advertising location on the page,
or if dynamic ad rotation is used.
Incentivized Traffic: Website where Ads are placed where Users have some sort
of incentive to click through on Ads.
Interactive Agency: An advertising agency, or division of an advertising
agency dedicated to interactive advertising, primarily published online.
Interactive Media: The online, Internet, or web environment is the primary
interactive media for advertising. It is dubbed interactive because the user,
or advertising target, can typically interact with the content and advertising.
Interactive Creative: A digital creative that uses a hyperlink to transfer
the user to another website or open a separate interactive window.
Interstitial: Advertising creative placed in-between the origin
website and the destination website, either physically or in time - also called
a pop-up window. The interstitial is analogous to the advertising inserts in
the Sunday paper that usually go straight to the trash. Newer concepts called
superstitials or metastitials attempt to be more acceptable to consumers by
being less intrusive, subtle and more interesting with the use of rich media
components such as video.
Inventory: The ad space available for sale on a website. Ad
inventory is determined by the number of ads on a page, the number of pages
containing ad space and an estimate of future page views. Also called ad avail.
Internet Protocol Address (IP Address): The numerical system used to identify the
components of the Internet. Every system connected to the Internet has a unique
IP address. In the current system (IPv4), there are only 4.3 billion unique IP
addresses.
J
Jump Page: See Splash Page.
Java: An
object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems, Java
supports animation and real-time information transfer. Web pages that have Java
applets embedded are recognized by Java supported web browsers.
Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG): Easily compressed graphics format that
displays photographic as well as graphic images. JPEG is a newer format than
GIF.
K
Keyword: A word or phrase used to focus an online search and to
target advertising. Advertisers can purchase keywords on search engines to
guarantee that their website information is displayed prominently and/or
display an associated creative.
L
Lag Time: The amount of time between making an online request or
command and receiving a response. A primary goal of advertising network efficiency
is to minimize lag time.
Last Call: An opportunity for buyers to find broad penetration at
low prices through last-minute, wide-ranging Run-of-Network buys.
M
Make-Good: Impressions not delivered. If 500,000 impressions are
bought and only 400,000 are delivered, the make-good is 100,000. Make-good
impressions typically run in the month following the end of flight date or are
removed from the campaign invoice (credited).
Media: The
forms of publication. Traditional advertising media include newspapers,
magazines, billboards, radio and television. Digital interactive advertising
media started with the Internet, accessed at an indoor computer, but is quickly
spreading to television, cellular devices and outdoor locations.
Media Broker: An individual or organization that represents and is
authorized to sell the advertising space of one or more publishers. Advertising
networks can act as brokers for online publishers.
Media Buyer / Media Planner: An individual working directly for an
advertiser, or for an advertising agency, charged with the responsibility of
purchasing advertising space. An interactive media buyer makes online ad space
purchases, sometimes through an ad network.
Metric: Any
standardized measurement used for comparison purposes. Online advertising
metrics include Click-through Ratio and Unique Page Views.
Macro: A small bit of HTML code that results in one or more
lines of program coding in the target programming language.
N
Net Dollars: The total amount a publisher receives for inventory.
Network:An individual that facilitates the buying and selling of
media between a group of publishers and advertisers
O
Opt-In Email: Email received based on a user's choice to opt-in, or
rather their choice to be on a digital mailing list that (theoretically) is
only used to send messages which will be of interest to them. Most opt-in email
is advertising. Opt-in email continues to build market share in the online
advertising world. More often than not, opt-in is the default and user action, such
as a check box, is required to opt-out.
Optimized:Describes a creative that has enough
historical performance data to bid accurately for an impression.
P
Page View: The loading of a webpage by a browser. A single User
Session may result in multiple page views and numerous Impressions. Reload of
the same page is another page view.
Pay-per-Click: See Cost per Click.
Pay-per-Impression: See Cost per 1,000 Impressions.
Pay-per-Lead: See Cost per Lead.
Pay-per-Sale: See Cost per Sale.
Pixel: A
pixel is a bit of HTML code, known as the pixel tag. You generate the pixel tag
in your account for an advertiser to insert in the source code of one of their
web pages.
Plug-in: A
modification to a browser that allows the execution of a certain type of custom
file, such as Macromedia's Flash™. Plug-ins are typically designed to enhance
the web user experience by providing animation, video or audio content.
Pop-Under: A window that pops (launches automatically) behind the
current browser window. Also known as a pop-behind or go-behind.
Prohibited Conduct: Conduct, during the course of performance of this
Agreement that is listed or related to the proscribed conduct listed in Section
2.
Publisher: An individual or entity selling online advertising
space, including portal media planners, Webmasters and other ad networks.
Publisher, web publisher, Webmaster and host are synonymous with respect to
online advertising.
Publisher Acceptance Email: An email by Ad server clearly communicating
acceptance to Publisher’s Affiliate Network Application which also contains
further instructions for Publisher regarding participation in the Ad serverNetwork.
Publisher Media: The Website, search engine or other electronic media on
which Publisher places Ads.
Psychographics: Behavioral characteristics of a target audience, such
as online shopping habits.
Pacing:Establishes
how quickly a campaign delivers and spends its budget. There are multiple
pacing options, all variations of "as soon as possible" (ASAP) or
spread evenly over a period. Budget caps can be used to establish periods such
as hourly, daily, or monthly.
Q
Rate Card: A presentation of the current rates to buy and sell
advertising space on an ad network.
R
Reach: A
metric that estimates, for a given reporting period, the Unique Visitors to a
website or network of websites, as a percentage of all Unique Visitors
considered accessible to that website or network of sites. Percent of the
audience "reached".
Redirect: The process of forwarding a call for a creative to
another server based on availability and frequency capping, among other
criteria.
Referral: A new publisher whose Website is accepted into the
network as a result of being referred directly by a current member through a
button, link or other accepted means.
Refresh: To
reload the same webpage.
Remnant Space: Website ad space that is relatively undesirable and is
often resold to a third party to be filled with low dollar advertising. Online
remnant space is analogous to 3 AM television air time.
Rep Firm: Company that represents advertising sold on a website,
often exclusively.
Request for Proposal (RFP): A request to provide a competitive proposal
to handle a particular campaign for publication. The best proposal is typically
awarded a contract to perform the service.
Return on Investment (ROI): The actual or perceived future value of an
expense or investment. Ad campaign ROI is a metric that attempts to determine
what the advertiser receives in return for the cost of the advertising, usually
in terms of new sales. The difficulty in determining ad campaign ROI is tied to
the type of online campaign used.
Rich Media: A general term used to describe advances in online
creative that take advantage of enhanced sensory features such as animation,
audio and video. Rich media takes many different digital file forms. The
serving of rich media creative can require more bandwidth and software
modifications for older systems. Rich media creative will become more useful as
user bandwidth increases.
Run-of-Network (RON): A campaign buy that distributes creative to all or most
of a network of publisher websites with no targeting or other filtering
applied, other than standard frequency capping. Run-of-Network campaigns
provide Advertisers with the greatest reach at the lowest cost.
S
Serving: The
real-time, controlled distribution of advertising creative to publisher websites.
Site Function Targeting: A simple way to target advertising by the primary use
of a website (to buy or sell, to get information, to be entertained). Site
function targeting is complementary to traditional category targeting.
Splash page: A highly expressive page between an advertisement and
an advertiser's website that often provides product information. Some splash
pages automatically jump to another page on the advertiser's website after a
certain amount of time has elapsed.
Sponsorship: A "long term" advertising relationship that
typically involves the payment of a fixed fee to display a banner or other
graphic on a website, or be included in an email newsletter.
Stats: Data
about the use of a website or the effectiveness of an ad campaign. The depth
and breadth of stats is unlimited.
Stickiness: A performance metric based on the ability of a website
to hold a visitor's attention. A website's stickiness is average duration per
user session or per unique visitor.
Surplus Inventory: Website ad space available for purchase. Surplus
inventory is often Remnant Space.
T
Tag: HTML
fragment that enables a website to serve an impression.
Targeting: The control of the distribution of ad creative to only
those websites or those users that fit within the particular targeting
parameters. The depth and breadth of potential targeting parameters is
unlimited. Targeting has the potential to dramatically improve the advertiser's
ROI. Typical targeting parameters are: local user time of day, website category,
user country, user age, etc.
Third Party Auditing: The use of an "independent" serving authority
to provide the definitive accounting of the execution of an ad campaign. The
campaign contract is usually written so that the auditor's numbers are final, rather
than those of either the advertiser or publisher. Third party auditing is
sometimes performed by a separate enterprise than third party serving, thus
involving a total of four parties. If third party remnant space or affiliates
are involved, the total number of entities involved in a single interactive
advertising event can be five or more.
Third Party Serving: The task of managing the frequency capping, redirection
and accounting of advertising events between publishers and advertisers.
Tracking: The collection and automated analysis of data
associated with the serving of digital creative. Tracking provides the
frequency control, accounting, stats data and anti-fraud components of a
campaign.
Traffic: The
volume of visitors to a website. Traffic is the currency of online success, but
is not the only factor. Massive, low grade traffic to a website with poor
content will inevitably result in failure. To an ad network Traffic Management
is the ongoing effort to balance Publisher inventory with booked campaigns.
Tracking Pixel: The method used by Ad server to track post-click
actions. A small piece of HTML code is placed in the advertiser's action page.
This causes a clear, single pixel GIF image (1X1) to be loaded by our servers
and count the action if a corresponding tracking cookie exists on the visitor’s
computer.
Transfer Click: Another term for the automatic loading (pop) of a new
browser window containing the advertiser's content.
U
Uniform Resource Locator (URL): an HTTP address used by the World Wide Web
to specify a certain site. This is the unique identifier, or address, of a
webpage on the Internet. For example,
http://www.theoreminc.net is the URL of this site.
Unique Page Views: The total number of unique pages on a website by a
unique visitor.
Unique Click: The number of times, as recorded Ad server, a User
viewing Publisher's Media, as identified by a cookie or IP address, clicks on a
Creative, provided however, that a click on a specific Creative by a particular
User shall only be counted as a Unique Click once every 24-hour period.
User: Any
person accessing Publisher Media.
Unique Visitor and User Session: A unique IP address visiting a website for
the first time in a specified period. Unique visitor is more often associated
with long periods of time, such as a month. User session is more often
associated with shorter periods of time, such as 30 minutes. Both are valuable
traffic metrics for many websites. Frequency control in ad campaigns is a
function of unique visitor and user session definitions.
Volume : A
measure of how much traffic a website receives. Typically expressed as a number
of impressions, such as 100,000 impressions per month.
Viral Marketing: The use of a self-perpetuation mechanism, such as a
referral or affiliate program, to grow a user base in a manner similar to the
spread of a virus. Good viral marketing campaigns have extraordinary ROI.
W
Web Page: The traditional presentation of information online.
Websites are made up of webpages, analogous to the pages in a book. If frames
are used, multiple pages can be displayed at the same time, resulting in
multiple Page Views.
Webmaster: The individual responsible for the management of a
website. See Publisher.
Website: A
virtual location online designated by a unique URL. A website is made up of one
or more webpages.
Website Categories: System of grouping based on content or demographic
interests. These may include women’s interests, automotive, and financial
sites, etc.
Website Profile: Details that may include historical demographic and
psychographic information about visitors to the website, or a portion thereof.
X Y Z
Zip Code Targeting:
Real-time geographic targeting of advertisements based on the zip code of the
user.
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