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Mardi Gras season is almost here and kicks off Saturday, January 3rd with 12th Night, an event presented in conjunction by the Krewes of Centaur and Gemini at the Bossier Civic Center!
There's new royalty in the house for the Krewe of Centaur. And you may recognize one of the duchesses.
Coronation season is almost upon us and it's a fun time to check out all Mardi Gras has to offer, as each of the area krewes' new royalty are unveiled!
In January, we took it upon ourselves to find out which Mardi Gras krewe in Shreveport-Bossier City was the most popular. In 2013, the Krewe of Harambee took top honors. So who won in 2014?
The Krewe of Highland has announced the parade will begin at 1 p.m.
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The final party weekend for Shreveport-Bossier's 2014 Mardi Gras season is here! Make sure you tag any photos you upload to Instagram with #kreweofgemini or #kreweofhighland to share them instantly in the photo gallery below.
With the Krewe of Gemini set to roll this Saturday, March 1st, there are a few things the Shreveport Police Department wants to make you aware of to ensure a fun and safe parade day for everyone.
The Krewe of Centaur parade is tomorrow and is expected to be a beautiful day for attendees.
The party animals at Shreveport-Bossier's Krewe of Barkus and Meoux have named Mr. Kippers, an English bull terrier, as their parade's Grand Marshall.
The Krewe of Centaur's parade is Saturday, Feb. 22, and thanks to our awesome Mardi Gras contest with MetroPCS, we're sending two lucky winners and their friends to experience the event in their own heated, catered VIP tent.
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Remember the heady days of Barack Obama's 2008 campaign? Remember how he promised to unify America – to reach across the aisle – to stop the oceans' rise and heal the planet? Remember these words – spoken on that history-making night in Chicago after he won election as the nation's first black president?
"There is not a liberal America and a conservative America. There is a United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America, a Latino America, an Asian America; there is a United States of America. "I don't want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be the president of the United States of America."
How distant, hollow and meaningless. Even tragic. America soon learned all too well that the lofty words of an oratorical community organizer (when reading from a teleprompter) were nothing more than that: lofty words – devoid of purpose, real meaning or intent. Barack Hussein Obama had no intentions of following through on any of them.
Instead? Unable to distinguish between effective governance and divisive political rhetoric, whenever O didn't get his way with Republicans, he instinctively reverted to the latter. He immediately began to pit wealthy Americans, Wall Street and big business against the middle and lower classes – and organized labor. During a radio interview with Univision, he admonished Latinos to "punish our enemies." He stood at the Mexican border and mocked Republicans for their support of enforcing immigration laws by saying: "Maybe they'll need a moat. Maybe they want alligators in the moat!" – as the crowd shouted, "Racists!" – unchallenged by the president.
Astonishingly, after four years of trillion dollar annual deficits, a $16 billion national debt, higher unemployment than when he took office, multiple scandals and an unraveling foreign policy, Obama was reelected last week. How could this happen? Polling analysts on both sides of the political spectrum have by and large come to the same conclusion: a negative campaign, supported by hundreds of millions of dollars of campaign ads in which he not only personally demonized Mitt Romney, but continued his four-year strategy of pitting American against American. And sadly – but predictably, given the polarization of the last four years – it worked.
And when the race was finally over last week, Barack Obama spoke again:
"I believe we can seize this future together because we are not as divided as our politics suggest. We're not as cynical as the pundits believe. We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions, and we remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America."
All of this with a straight face, mind you. Pardon my skepticism, but why the hell should anyone believe him now?
Not as divided as "our" politics suggest, Mr. President? Wouldn't that be your politics, you disingenuous hypocrite?
Do even the most ardent of Obama supporters believe this ridiculous rhetoric from a failed president who, unable to run on his record, has worked tirelessly to fan the flames of class warfare from the beginning? This is a man who has created more cynicism – on both sides of the political spectrum – than has any president in modern history. This is a man whose only hope for reelection was to pit Red America against Blue America. This is a man who made precisely the same faux-conciliatory comments following his victory in 2008. And incredibly, he behaves as if we believe him.
And so, here we are: four years of Barack Obama down – and four more to go. Where does it leave us? From Breitbart.com:
In the aftermath of the 2012 election, the vast majority of states are either entirely blue or entirely red – their entire legislatures and governors of one party or the other. As the Wall Street Journal reports, "In 46 states, the same party now controls both chambers of the legislature, creating distinct divisions between red and blue states." That's the highest number in 70 years.
If this continues, we are watching the end of America as we know it.
As to be expected, red states are governed very differently from blue states. Of the 22 right-to-work states, which have provided 72% of the jobs under the weak Obama recovery, only Iowa (divided), Nebraska (nonpartisan unicameral legislature) and Nevada (Democrat-controlled legislature) are not solid red. Meanwhile, the bluest states – states like Michigan and California and Illinois – are totally bankrupt.
If the blue states hold true to form and the red states continue to grow, it will not be long before the red states are largely subsidizing the blue states. And when that happens, look for the bond that holds the states together to fray. If California is America's Greece, Texas will be America's Germany. Continue reading…
Like all good socialists, Barack Obama is doing his damnedest to "take from the rich and give to the poor." Moreover, his commitment to wealth redistribution doesn't stop with "asking the rich to pay a little bit more." Let's connect the dots: Obama's well-known desire to impose penalties and restrictive carbon taxes on industry – particularly oil and coal. Billions of taxpayer dollars to solar companies, wind farms, electric cars and other forms of "green energy." Redistribution from Texas to California. Texas becomes to California what Germany has become to Greece. Any questions?
And, as I've said before, the dirty little secret is this: A divided America is exactly what Barack Obama and the Democrats want. A country with a majority of its people dependent on the government is also dependent on the Democratic Party. After all, if not for the Democrats – who will "take from the rich and give to the poor"?
Barack Hussein Obama's father would be proud of his son indeed.
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if it was flex plate i would think trk would not start. i suspect trans issues
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engine wont restart after i shut it off, doesnt seem to spin fast enough to crank
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Bolts that secures torque converter to flex plate are missing or broken! Before this happened did you hear any clanging noises or other strange noise? I think what you were turning was the torque converter. Will the starter turn the engine over now?
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engine wont crank now, cant get enough rpms. there was a slight rattle, i thought something was vibrating, havent noticed any missing bolts, am going to drop tranny tommorrow.
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When it comes to Enterprise Collaboration, many organisations remain 'land-locked'; restricted by the architectures, deployment models, and functionality of solutions that were conceived in another age - an age when there was no Web 2.0, no mobile Internet, no impending pandemic, and no economic crisis. Of those organisations that are trying to move ahead in the 'new world of work', many IT departments are struggling to keep pace with the rapidly-changing world of information worker solutions and with the consumerisation of collaboration technologies in particular. Web-native collaboration solutions are continuing to grow in popularity amongst the twenty-something 'net-generation', and these Internet-born offerings are now starting to cross over into the world of enterprise IT. The challenge for IT managers is to reap the benefit of the best aspects of these new tools, whilst avoiding the pitfalls that can arise from ignoring these possibilities altogether. Moreover, this must be achieved against a backdrop of shrinking IT budgets and increased expectancy.Key Findings
CatalystWhen it comes to Enterprise Collaboration, many organisations remain 'land-locked'; restricted by the architectures, deployment models, and functionality of solutions that were conceived in another age – an age when there was no Web 2.0, no mobile Internet, no impending pandemic, and no economic crisis. Of those organisations that are trying to move ahead in the 'new world of work', many IT departments are struggling to keep pace with the rapidly-changing world of information worker solutions and with the consumerisation of collaboration technologies in particular. Web-native collaboration solutions are continuing to grow in popularity amongst the twenty-something 'net-generation', and these Internet-born offerings are now starting to cross over into the world of enterprise IT. The challenge for IT managers is to reap the benefit of the best aspects of these new tools, whilst avoiding the pitfalls that can arise from ignoring these possibilities altogether. Moreover, this must be achieved against a backdrop of shrinking IT budgets and increased expectancy. AnalysisRecognising the fact that they are now just another node in a complex mesh of business-to-business networks, supply chains, and industry ecosystems, organisations are looking at new ways to extend the reach and range of their businesses through collaborative efforts. For many this means giving serious consideration to new ways of thinking, new ways of engaging, and new ways of working. However, organisations across all industries and sectors have spent large sums of money on Enterprise Collaboration solutions in recent years, and yet in most cases these investments have failed to produce any clear competitive advantage or significant return on investment. If CEOs are to support proposals for new Enterprise Collaboration investments, then CIOs must be certain that the products, solutions, and services their organisations select will be of immediate and significant business value. Business IssuesE-mail, teleconferencing, Web conferencing, video conferencing, electronic meeting rooms, portals, and Document Management systems are all in use today, and yet so many business processes are still hampered by ineffective collaboration. With competition intensifying, and windows of opportunity closing, organisations must re-examine their Enterprise Collaboration strategies as a matter of priority in order to better support business endeavours and to reduce the cost of 'information work' – an activity that now consumes around 80% of salary costs. Over the years, the notion of collaboration has been responsible for some of the most utopian and naïve visions of what IT can deliver in terms of enterprise IT, and yet organisations continue to seek new means by which that most expensive of all human corporate resources – i.e. the information worker – can become more efficient, effective, and productive. It is hardly surprising that investments in Enterprise Collaboration facilities are flattening-off, given the current level of economic uncertainly, but Butler Group contends that such investments should be maintained, as employee productivity will undeniably impact future business outcomes as global markets recover. Enterprise Collaboration systems, along with their supporting communication technologies, underpin many of the real value-add activities of an organisation, and if one looks at the Sales, General, and Administration figure of any large company, then one can instantly get a feel for the importance of information technology to this section of the workforce. Moreover, with 'outperform' now the new 'perform' in these uncertain economic times, established businesses are having to take-stock, as new start-ups, unfettered by layers of legacy IT and archaic business processes, reap the rewards of agile IT infrastructures and a highly-effective workforce.From a business-leader perspective, it would be irresponsible to ignore the prevailing economic and social conditions. As we write this Report businesses leaders are preparing contingency plans as concerns relating the 'swine flu' pandemic grow, and here Enterprise Collaboration can be part of the solution by providing the means for the organisation to work with minimal on-site staff, potentially reducing the spread of infection by ensuring that as many staff as possible work from home for the duration of the high-risk period. The business issues that are forcing IT management to re-evaluate their information worker strategies are, of course, many and varied; but the management and exploitation of business social networking and transactive information (i.e. that associated with specific communities of interest, their interactions, and their 'products' or output) is, in Butler Group's opinion, key. Within any given market or economy, business transaction costs always tend towards a fixed point, and so it then becomes the value-add that a business can bring to these transactions that makes the difference. Maybe this is better customer support, faster delivery, or more flexible working; but whatever the difference, it will undoubtedly be linked with the way an organisation marshals and focuses its people. Technology IssuesCollaboration means working with people through 'shared spaces' that may be Internet service based, enterprise server based, or connected directly by using peer-to-peer technology. Collaboration means working within and across locations, such as home(s), hotels, and offices; it also means working across and within different businesses, organisations, workgroups, and projects; and it also means working across and between different IT regimes, business processes, and corporate policies. Enterprise Collaboration systems enable the information worker to create, find, organise, and share documents and data among all of the different desktops, devices, servers, and services to which he or she has access. However, despite the availability of such a broad range of collaboration products, the vast majority of user-oriented, ad hoc business processes remain hampered and ineffective due to one thing: e-mail. Collaborating via e-mail is something we all do, every day; it has become second nature to us. There are better ways of collaborating, and the so-called 'Net Generation' is slowly but surely introducing new models of working as they shun e-mail in favour of more socially-oriented systems. Synchronous collaboration features are a fundamental component of the 'new world of work'. Whether it is Instant Messaging, video conferencing, whiteboarding or application sharing, moving to a unified communications and collaboration environment is something that all IT managers should be thinking about. It is clearly a mistake to think that Enterprise Collaboration is all about technology, but it is also a mistake to dismiss the technology altogether. Therefore, selecting and implementing enterprise social software solutions, next-generation collaboration solutions, and Rich Internet Applications requires careful thought, consideration, and planning. In particular, adapting information security and corporate governance policies to fit with the cloud/Web 2.0 delivery model will, in the opinion of Butler Group, prevent many organisations from going down this path at present. Butler Group believes that Web 2.0, and advances in collaboration models, are capable of transforming the work 'place'. Fully-featured mobile phones are now in common use, and high-speed telecommunication networks provide connectivity to a large percentage of the mobile workforce. As the cost of using these networks decreases, so more opportunities will be created for an organisation's mobile workers. As a result, Butler Group expects that Enterprise Collaboration solutions will be tuned to mobile form factors rather than the traditional desktop PC. With high-quality voice, video, and data available almost anywhere, and with input and output technologies evolving also, the pace of change in the Enterprise Collaboration market looks set to quicken as we approach the end of the decade. The only environment more complicated than the workplace is the 'other place'; i.e. the home, the train, the car, the plane, the hotel, the motel, the customer office, and the coffee shop. This is where consumeroriented technology comes alive, and this is why the consumerisation of corporate IT will have a big effect on the Enterprise Collaboration systems of the future. Market IssuesThe continued evolution of the consumer-oriented Internet, with its Web 2.0 architectures and models, is starting to have an effect on corporate IT. The last couple of years have seen some organisations experimenting with Web-native 'social software' (such as blogs, wikis, and communities), and so as we move towards the end of the decade Butler Group believes that we will see established Enterprise Collaboration vendors – such as IBM and Microsoft – accelerating their 'Enterprise Web 2.0' solutions, and challenging Web-native vendors such as Google. However, the question being considered by many CIOs is whether to stick with the establishment – i.e. IBM and Microsoft – or to perhaps consider something new and innovative from the likes of consumer-oriented technology companies – such as Google. Although advanced collaboration environments, such as virtual meeting spaces and the 3D Internet, are currently confined to specialised use-cases, evidence from the consumer world would suggest that this form of virtual collaboration could prove extremely useful within the enterprise. IBM and Sun Microsystems (soon to be part of Oracle) are both investing in this new area of collaboration, and Cisco and HP are also providing 'hi-resolution' collaborative environments through the use of video conferencing technology. Butler Group expects this technology will be deployed much more widely over the next two years as usability improves and equipment becomes more commodity priced. Google has finally removed the 'Beta' sticker from its Google Apps Premier Edition; the company's cloud-based collaboration software. With this offering, Google is aiming to tap into a growing market for productivity tools that allow for online collaboration. While Google may be struggling to meet its rivals in terms of functionality, those organisations seeking a 'good enough' solution could save a small fortune by moving to the cloud. Existing enterprise vendors – such as IBM, Microsoft and Adobe – are also readying cloud-based offerings, and with compatibility and familiarity important considerations for the Enterprise Collaboration market, Google's attempts to enter this particular sector will not be easy. This Report reveals:
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This Privacy Policy describes how Mail Call Couriers Pty Limited (ABN 78 002 351 939) (Mail Call, we, our or us) will treat the personal information that we collect about you.
We make every effort possible to safeguard the integrity of your personal information.
This Privacy Policy explains how we keep your personal information safe and how we collect, use or disclose it, how you can access and correct your personal information and what to do if you have a complaint.
It also complies with the requirements of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Act), including the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) and any other applicable privacy laws in Australia.
What kinds of personal information do we collect, use, hold and disclose?
The kinds of information that we collect, use, hold and disclose may include your name, contact details (including billing and pick-up addresses), date of birth, employment details, complaint details, financial details, payment information and any other criteria specific to your circumstances that allow us to provide you with a service that meets your expectations and where relevant, employment history.
We also may collect additional personal information in respect of our potential employees or sub-contractors, such as next of kin, vehicle registration numbers, other information relevant to their work, including incidents and accidents and sensitive information such as health information and criminal records.
How do we collect and use personal information?
We generally collect your personal information directly from you.
We also collect personal information from third parties, such as retailers, other individuals or any other third party, in order to provide our courier services to you.
If you are a potential employee or sub-contractor, we may also collect personal information from personal references and Australian Federal, State and Territory government agencies and bodies where relevant.
From time to time, we collect personal information through list purchases from third parties. We also collect personal information from third parties such as eWay or PayPal relating to payments made by individuals through such third party providers. However, we do not collect your financial information, such as credit card details from such third parties.
We usually collect personal information when individuals communicate with us as part of our business, such as when they:
- make inquiries about our services, book or pay for courier services, make complaints or provide feedback on our services or contact us for any other reason in person, online, by fax or phone (such calls may be recorded as advised to individuals and we may hold recordings of our phone interactions with you);
- contact, register with, post to, like or follow any of our social media websites, pages, forums or blogs;
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- make applications for prospective employment or contracting opportunities at Mail Call;
- subscribe to newsletters, fill out forms, respond to surveys, enter into or participate in any competitions or promotions.
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We collect, use and disclose your personal information, as necessary, for purposes relating to our functions and activities, including to:
- provide our goods and services to you for which you provided your personal information or for related purposes that you would reasonably expect;
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- process and deal with inquiries from individuals about Mail Call and our goods and services and to respond to inquiries;
- contact you regarding administrative issues;
- provide you with direct marketing to inform you of new product offerings, and communications relevant to your use of our services. If you do not wish to receive these communications, you can opt out of receiving such communications, by email, fax, or letter. Please see the access section below for our contact details;
- improve our business processes and our services;
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- maintain, repair and develop our IT infrastructure and systems; and
- receive and process applications for prospective employment or contracting opportunities at Mail Call.
We do not sell, rent or distribute your information to any third party or contractor, or use this information for any other reason than as a means for us to identify you to provide an efficient courier service and invoicing.
We maintain a history of your courier job details and relevant commentary from you, our couriers or our operation's staff pertaining to any aspect, either good or bad, that impacts a particular courier job or our services in general. We use this information and other information we obtain from your current and past activities at Mail Call, to resolve disputes, trouble-shoot problems and enforce our commitment to provide a consistent courier service to you and your organisation.
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We usually disclose your personal information as follows:
- to our clients, such as retailers, in order to courier their products to you;
- to our sub-contracted couriers (your pick-up address details and other pertinent information);
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- for prospective employees and contractors, to third parties to complete background and reference checks;
- insurers and medical and rehabilitation service providers, where relevant, for incidents and accidents which need to be notified by us;
- to our other third party service providers which provide goods and services to us, such as providers of email services to our clients or newsletter subscribers; or
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If you do not wish to use cookies, we suggest that you use the telephone booking facility on 136331 instead, as there is no provision to provide a viable Internet booking facility that does not incorporate cookies. Alternatively, if you do not select the "Remember Me" option, we do not use persistent cookies to track your activity or record any information about you.
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At Mail Call, we take such steps as are reasonable to protect your information from misuse, interference and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
To further protect you while utilising our Internet booking facility, we use an encryption mechanism (SSL - Secure Socket Layer) so that all information on our website and Internet bookings facility is automatically encrypted, providing a level of security to our clients.
We keep hard copies of materials containing personal information securely at our premises and also at secure offsite premises.
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Viewability is on the top of every digital marketer's wish list for 2013. The emerging metric seeks to measure how frequently an ad is actually seen by a user, and not merely the number of times it's served by a site's ad server. It's safe to say that all people (except maybe our cookie bombing friends) agree that viewability is a good thing for the industry and a step toward pulling real TV dollars into our space. Ad networks in particular built their optimization strategies around making sure their cookie was last in line to receive view through credit. Bringing viewability into the mix offers the opportunity to legitimize this often (and rightly) criticized attribution model.
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Unfortunately, these articles – and the industry dialogue as a whole – miss a significant point: viewability is a metric that must be evaluated relative to cost in an eCPM, and not just as a percentage of impressions in view. The time has come to add another acronym to our vocabulary: vCPM.
What marketers can learn by vCPM vs. number or percent in-view
Let's walk through a sample scenario. Say you have $100K to invest in one of three digital campaigns, and your goal is to purchase viewable impressions for your brand. Your options all cost exactly $100K, and they're behind three doors:
Door #1: 25MM confirmed views
Door #2: 20MM confirmed views
Door #3: 9.3MM confirmed views
Which campaign option would you choose? If you're measuring the number of confirmed views, Door #1 seems like a no-brainer, right?
Now let's say you plan on making your selection based on the percentage of in-view impressions, and that these campaigns offer the following scores:
Door #1: 25% in-view
Door #2: 50% in-view
Door #3: 75% in-view
Still want to proceed with Door #1? A 25% in-view score feels rather abysmal, and I doubt any marketer would happily sign up for a campaign in which 75% of the impressions are served out of view.
But here's the kicker: percentage of impressions in view doesn't tell the whole story. Let's add more campaign details to see how this all comes together. As in real life, each door charges a different CPM, which drastically affects the number of impressions you can buy for your $100K, and that in turn affects the percent of impressions in view:
This table should give any marketer pause. Simply selecting an inventory source based on the percentage of in-view impressions can lead you down the wrong path, causing you to spend your way to an inferior ROI. The upshot? Rather than worry about how many impressions are 'wasted' by being out of view, focus on how much you pay for impressions that are confirmed in-view. Door #1 is looking pretty good once again!
Regardless of the methodology your publisher or partner uses to measure its viewability, you can still calculate vCPM using this formula:
Total Spend / ((Total impressions * % in-view) / 1000) = vCPM
Going forward, marketers need to hold publishers and partners with whom they work, and the tactics they use, accountable to both viewability performance as well as performance relative to cost. The vCPM is the best way to get a truly apples-to-apples comparison of viewability effectiveness.
VCPM is hardly 'spray and pray'
Now, if you're wondering whether the vCPM approach is nothing more than "spray and pay" – where marketers go to the ad exchanges in an effort to buy as many cheap impressions as they can and hope for the best – the answer is unequivocally no.
Writing off vCPM as spray and pay implies that higher-priced inventory performs better than cheap inventory as a rule. But is that the case? It is for certain activities, such as credit card signups or consumer electronics purchases. After all, those consumers who are identified as more likely to complete those actions become attractive prospects to more marketers. Over time, competition for the impressions served to those consumers heats up, leading to an escalation in price. That's why In-Market or Remarketing tactics earn comparatively high CPMs.
But, we don't have a third-party data segment called 'In-Market for Viewable Impressions.' Viewability is a performance activity that can be found across the entire digital sphere, in impressions delivered to all kinds of consumers visiting all kinds of sites. As a result, "viewable" impressions aren't inherently more expensive, just as expensive inventory doesn't have an inherent vCPM advantage (as will be discussed below).
What's more, because the measurement is still evolving, deciding at bid time whether an impression will be in-view remains an inexact science. In this light, one could even argue that the cheap spray and pray approach offers a better path to vCPM success than its more expensive alternative, "pay and pray."
Why expensive inventory doesn't always have a vCPM advantage
The viewability metric is different from other performance activities in another key way: those activities are limitless, whereas viewability is capped at 100%. To use a sports comparison, think of bowling: no matter how skilled your opponent, he or she can only score a 300. Likewise, the most expensive, premium inventory on the web can only achieve a maximum 100% in-view.
Using our campaign option examples above, let's pretend that Door #3 was actually 100% in-view and therefore delivered an $8.00 vCPM. Even with perfect in-view performance, the burden of Door #3's significantly higher cost allows both Door #1 ($4.00 vCPM) and Door #2 ($5.00 vCPM) to be significantly more cost effective. More simply put: the marketer who bought Door #3 is paying more for each viewed impression, and getting fewer of them.
Viewability performance, like all performance metrics, should be evaluated relative to cost
Without including cost in your performance equation, there is no way to fully understand and optimize the viewability of your media plan. Furthermore, smart marketers will recognize that this metric is but one of many metrics that matter. The task of optimizing advertising ROI is a multivariate problem, and the modern marketer needs an approach and supporting tools that enable them to not only isolate and test variables, but also to pull it all back together in an automated way that weighs the various sensitivities and trade-offs for the best result for their brand. Marketers who get this, and jump up the learning curve quickly to solve for multivariate advertising ROI will be the biggest winners in 2013, and the years to come..
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Moreover, it would be interesting to link it to post-view within the attribution models
A "viewable-CPM" metric is definitely a step in the right direction, and hopefully we'll be able to tie view's to conversions (and conversion funnels) in the near future. One issue your article didn't address is the reliability of the technology that measures viewability. Not too long ago adexchanger reported the MRC was not fully satisfied with the way viewability worked:
I understand that there are many stakeholders in this conversation, and that each has different agendas. With that said, I would be wary of adopting a technology like this until I was fairly certain that it worked, particularly across exchanges where impressions get bounced around so much.
Great! I have explained this for several years to our clients... Glad to get your support on this point!
Isnt it still impossible to track viewability in a scalable way across adexchanges because of adexchange tags being implemented in iframes? Adsense tags are all in iframes per standard I believe, so unless theres a way to measure viewability of iframes I dont think theres a scalable solution? Correct me if I'm wrong, but all the solutions proposed so far involve custom changes on the publisher side, which wont happen in a quick and scalable fashion (no incentives for pubishers to make these changed).
I agree that vCPM is a useful metric for brand marketers, and you provide some insightful examples, Adrian. However, I think you are wrong that "It's safe to say that all people (except maybe our cookie bombing friends) agree that viewability is a good thing for the industry" - I was on a panel last week with decidedly mixed opinions, and not just from cookie-bombers.
Also, I don't think "deciding at bid time whether an impression will be in-view remains an inexact science" - it's actually impossible to know. By definition, you can't measure viewability at bid time, you have to wait a second and see if the user scrolls or clicks away. So vCPM belongs in the same post-delivery metric bucket as CPE or CPA, and while useful metrics like they are, should not be seen as replacing CPM as the primary currency of display advertising.
Thanks for your comments, Tom. And agreed - given the definition of viewability, it is impossible to know before you bid on an impression whether or not it will be viewed. This is an important point to make as marketers get familiar with a new metric.
More generally, from my perspective, viewability is the newest parameter (of perhaps a never ending string) to come to market this year. On the one hand, I agree with you, this is nothing more than another cost per fill in the blank here.
On the other hand, the big 'a hah' is about cobbling all of these different (and sometimes competing!) metrics together to pop up a level and take more of a universal & holistic view. One that enables not only the analytics to help marketers understand this new world, but also to provide the 'fuel' for multi-variate optimization in order to deliver real marketing effectiveness.
Barry, you are correct in that viewability measurement across the exchanges remains a complex problem. Article referenced by Alejandro is a great place to start.
That said, end of the day, digital media is always measured view 'sampling', whether you are measuring your CPA or validating the audience your impressions were served to on a given campaign. Imperfect measurement is almost always better than no measurement, provided you understand the underlying methodology and can interpret the results given known limitations.
@Adrian - Great piece. It's nice to see the focus placed on the immense benefits of viewability measurement as opposed to the few flaws. The good outweighs the bad heavily.
@Tom - Actually there is no reason, save the lack of technical resources committed by ad server owners (proprietary, third party, et al), why viewability cannot be actionable in-delivery. At AdXpose we built an ad server that decided to deliver the ad based on whether or not the placement had been scrolled into view.
As for RTB - bidding engines could be tweaked to allow for vCPM "hold" bids, which would override lower non-vCPM bids in the event an ad became viewable, while simply not triggering (and serving the lower priced ad) should an ad not become viewable.
Of course, that would inherently require RTB entities to transparently show the percentage of inventory that is never viewable - or put another way, to admit they knowingly serve ads that are never viewable - so let's not hold our collective breath.
"Of course, that would inherently require RTB entities to transparently show the percentage of inventory that is never viewable"
true, but that also assumes that said RTB entities are charging their advertisers on CPM or on a post-view basis right (e.g. post-view CPA)?
RTB entities/DSPs that charge on CPC or CPA targets, post-click, should benefit in the long run here if viewability becomes a huge issue for advertisers. In these cases viewability is more an issue that DSPs should raise with Ad Exchanges to solve as they are buying off them on a CPM basis.
Always look at the actual delivery numbers and/or proposed delivery numbers. The percentages don't matter. Same goes for publisher revenue share - 70% of $1CPM is less than 50% of $2CPM.
It's very surprising that this still needs to be explained. Nice explanation Adrian.
In the end, a buyer will evaluate the "effectiveness" of the campaign based on how much they paid vs. how many valuable outcomes (however they define those) it delivered.
So what if "Door 3" in your example delivered 3x the value of the other campaigns? Wouldn't that make it the most cost effective?
It all comes down to how you measure your "R" in ROI. You can really put anything you want in the denominator, but a smart buyer will realize that the denominator has to be the thing you are trying to maximize. For a branding campaign, you are probably trying to maximize a delta in some "brand awareness" metric, and if you have a DR campaign you are probably maximizing clicks and/or post click actions.
In your examples, you have defined "view ability" as your "R". I just question how that fits into a marketers goals. Intuitively, this debate can be framed as a step forward, but to me it seems backwards. It feels like vCPM fans are proposing to regress into measuring a proxy when the real thing is already available. I think most marketers get this and that explains the sluggish and spotty adoption of the metric.
Alejandro raises an important point about post in-view response. Viewthrough.org seeks to address this by pushing for standardization of this metric's definition, scorecarding vendors and methodology best practices.
Thinking about ad viewability and see-through without also thinking through viewthrough leaves the door open for clickthrough rate inflation.


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