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Yahoo unveils ad-tracking service

Elinor Mills CNET News.com

Published: 19 Dec 2005 16:20 GMT

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Yahoo has launched a service that will let companies advertising on its sites see how well their online ads are faring — and compare those numbers with their radio, television and print advertising campaigns.

Yahoo is partnering with Marketing Management Analytics (MMA) to provide the new service. A Yahoo spokeswoman said a fee will be charged for the service, but declined to reveal the cost beyond saying the service would be "competitively priced".

Unlike offerings from Microsoft and Google that allow advertisers to see how well their online campaigns are going, Yahoo's service will let customers compare the effectiveness of online ads side-by-side with the effectiveness of their ad spending offline, said John Nardone, chief client officer at MMA, a unit of London-based Aegis Group.

The new service is based on econometric analysis that uses statistics to create a mathematical model of marketing situations. Thrown into the mix, ideally, are several years' worth of data points for all the factors that are likely to influence sales of a brand or product — including different types of ads and seasonality of items and competition — that can be used to create a predictive model of sales, Nardone said.

Being able to do an apples-to-apples comparison of ad-spending effectiveness across the various media channels will allow companies to better determine how much money they want to spend in each, he said. This is particularly important as Internet advertising has become the fastest-growing segment of the market.

"As we are looking into 2006 we are seeing many of our clients planning to make very substantial increases in online ad spending," Nardone said. "The demand for more insight into Internet advertising is there."

Online display and search ad spending is projected to grow at an annual rate of 10 percent over the next five years, according to a study released Thursday by JupiterResearch. The research firm also predicts that the US online advertising market will grow 28 percent this year to $11.9bn (£6.7bn) in 2005 and rise to $13.6bn in 2006 and $15.1bn in 2007.

A study released last month by trade group Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers found that Internet ad sales reached an all-time high of $3.1bn in September and predicted they would exceed $12bn for the year, up from $9.6bn in 2004.

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