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According to the recently released results of the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers – Q1 saw the highest revenue ever for internet advertising.

Looks like retail made the lion’s share but CPG saw a 6% growth over last year. What’s interesting to me is that we’re still seeing performance based going up over CPM. Still waiting to see CPM go away altogether.

Good argument for having better and better analytics/tracking in-house.

View the full report here.

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We created Tweet Promo Builder so that anyone could create a customized twitter promotion without writing a single line of code.

Lets say you’re a website owner who often gives away white papers and presentations or you’re an online store owner who likes to offer your customers discount codes. Well rather than just giving those away, or just asking for an email address now you can require your users to send a tweet in order to get what you’re offering. So now instead of just one person getting your promo you are reaching that users followers and enticing them to come to your site, where in turn they will have the same opportunity to send a tweet to gain access to your offer, effectively sending your promotion viral.

How it basically works on a site:

1. A user visits a page or site with your Tweet Promo.
2. They opt-In for your offer and send the tweet you’ve required
3. Automatically, a tweet featuring your promo is posted on their Twitter feed seen by all their followers. Then, using Twitter’s own API, the system immediately confirms that their tweet was sent
4. User instantly gets access to your promo code, a website, or file to download

Normally to create something like this you’d have to hire a programmer familiar with Twitter’s API every time you wanted to run a promotion.

Instead, subscribers to Tweet Promo Builder can simply customize a new promotion from the options available through their control panel. They can offer their viewers a promo code, a web page, or if they’re a premium subscriber- a file.

Our Tweet Promo Builder system instantly generates the necessary code – Then they simply copy and paste the code to their site or blog.

I also created a video walk-through to help illustrate the features and how the whole thing works on any site.

Available exclusively to Vertiyo Creative clients, VertiyoView constantly monitors the relevant conversations happening about your brand or topic of interest on social networking sites, twitter, Blogs and Web sites.