I love mobile devices. I bought my first PDA, a Cassiopeia, back in the late ’90s. It was a Windows CE device, had a large, color touch screen, and ran scaled-down versions of Microsoft Office applications. I worked for Windows IT Pro at the time, and believe it or not, we actually launched a mobile version of our website specifically designed for mobile devices using a platform called AvantGo. That was 12 years ago, and we were able to aggregate enough of an audience to actually sell sponsorships. Obviously mobile devices and mobile publishing have evolved significantly since then. I now own a...

I’ll be doing a webinar tomorrow, Thursday June 10, at 1:00 PM Eastern for Media Life Magazine on “The Future of Online Measurement.” Among the topics I’ll be covering are: How online media continues to fragment / converge online and what that means to media buyers (and media companies). Which metrics to use and what data you can trust. What current tools you can use to evaluate online media buys and what they can and can’t do today. How GRP can be applied to online media buys. What the future holds for online evaluation tools designed to help you as a media buyer /...

Two steps forward, one step back … gotta love the web and online advertising! There is a proliferation of new computers that run 64-bit processors and 64-bit versions of operating systems (Linux and Windows). Along with that comes all of the wonderful new 64-bit applications … like Internet Explorer. But Adobe Flash does not yet support 64-bit browsers so all those beautiful Flash ads don’t even show up. So, let’s count the places where Flash ads (or Flash in general) don’t show up now: Any 64-bit browser on any operating system (not huge numbers, but growing). Any...

Just did a webinar this morning with Media Life and BPA on the challenges of web traffic measurement from an advertiser perspective. Key points: Total traffic to a web site can be impacted three different ways: unique visitors per month, visits per unique per month, and page views per visit. Most important metrics to an advertiser: page views per month, page views per visit, uniques per month, visits per month. A site with high page views per visit isn’t necessarily a good thing. I expose seven games publishers can play with metrics to look bigger to advertisers. The positives/negatives of the...

I answer Catalyst Investor’s Ryan McNally’s question about whether content is a tool to drive people to your web site or whether it is directly monetized. My answer? It depends on your business model and the kind of...