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Ben Gilbert: belief

11 Nov 2016 Acquired The Facebook IPO

“I think Nissan Leaf was one of three advertisers that actually bought– Anyway, so banner ads didn’t work very well.”

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
Attribution
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
11 Nov 2016
Publisher
Acquired

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…What a crappy ad format. We had ridiculous CPMs and Apple featured us. I think Nissan Leaf was one of three advertisers that actually bought– Anyway, so banner ads didn’t work very well. Apple since iAd, a lot of publishers are moving to just putting their square desktop ads in the middle of articles. People are getting closer with these sort of like native ads embedded into publisher formats. But what really works on mobile is Facebook ads.…

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