Spend on online advertising by Irish marketeers grew to €53.9m in the first half of 2010 (H1) with display and search engine marketing the main drivers, according to a study by PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) and the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) Ireland. In
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Following the introduction of paid search engine marketing formats to Google Image Search this July, the company has announced that it is trialling a new display ad format in both the UK and the US markets. As stated on the
A new brand promotion initiative has been launched by Google on a test basis, allowing users to add videos to their AdWords search listings, reports Marketing Week. Aptly named “video extensions”, the multimedia files will play underneath a brands’ text ads,
Google’s flagship search engine marketing and online advertising program is approaching its 10th anniversary, after nearly a decade of fuelling the company’s meteoric rise to dominance in the search market. Even though Google has expanded far beyond its core search-based
Call metrics for mobile-targeted search engine marketing via Google’s AdWords are slowly progressing towards general release, as the company has announced it has expanded its limited trials in the US. According to a blog post by Surojit Chatterjee, senior product manager, the
The launch of Google Instant has been linked to a 9% rise in search engine marketing impressions for Google’s AdWords platform, reports the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB). According to research by Marin Software, the two weeks since the launch of
The search alliance has announced that the transition of Yahoo’s paid search engine marketing platform to Microsoft’s adCentre is now “100%” complete in the U.S and Canada markets. In a joint message to Web Pro News the “Search Alliance” announced
New functions have been added to Search Funnels for AdWords: the Top Paths (Query Paths) report. Search Funnels were introduced fairly recently to AdWords and were upgraded with new, longer conversion history windows at the beginning of October this year. They are a set
With the recent completion of the Yahoo!/Bing alliance, and their affiliation with Microsoft adCenter, much has been said about the collaboration’s capability to stand up to Google Adwords and achieve an equal market share. Search engine optimisation has long since been dominated by
Whilst search engine marketing revenue is still a core part of Google’s business, its inarguable that the company has grown far beyond its original functions. Today Google products are used throughout the online world, from digital infrastructure such as “captcha” recognition software

