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30th Apr 2012

Should we bother with Facebook Advertising if 44% of us would never click on a sponsored ad?

Following on from Andreas Pouros’ blog, I take one of his closing points: “The good news for Facebook is that it could capture around 22% of that search market by barely breaking a sweat”. Although tiny when compared to Google’s 87% share [Source: Greenlight - Search and Social Survey 2011/2012], the opportunity still presents a greater share when compared to the other big players in the market (Yahoo, Bing etc).

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30th Mar 2012

Greenlight Academy Announces Search and Social Media Training Courses for 2012

Greenlight Academy, the training division of leading independent digital marketing agency Greenlight, has released its 2012 schedule of Search and Social Media courses, all of which are now open for registration online.

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Blog Blog
17th Jan 2012

Google will overtake Yahoo to become king of display advertising in 2012

2011 has been a busy year for the Search industry with Google acquiring Invite Media and Teracent. As we head into 2012, Google is about to officially launch its DoubleClick Search V3 platform - DS3 - a bid management programme which will combine Yahoo and MSN into an AdWords type interface, and significantly invest in the Double Click platform, specifically Double Click for Advertisers (DFA) and the Exchange. As advertisers will we really need to invest elsewhere when Google could potentially provide it all?

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Press Press
16th Jan 2012

Google tipped to overtake Yahoo to become king of display advertising in 2012

Greenlight, expects search giant Google to overtake Yahoo and become king of display advertising by the end of the year. Greenlight also predicts 2012 will be will be the year of social link building and that social media sites will take on a multi-faceted identity. These alongside others from Yahoo, Google and Microsoft, are some of the firm’s predictions in the latest quarterly edition of Greenlight’s monthly magazine which accompanies Greenlight’s independent research.

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Blog Blog
26th Sep 2011

Display Wars - a few battles may be over but the war for Display rages on

With the battle between the big three growing ever more intense with the news in May 2011 that Google, already dominating the Search space, had outrun Yahoo in what was the latter's final bastion, Display advertising, can the Search Alliance pick itself up, dust itself off and fight the battle now on two fronts?

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09th Feb 2011

Greenlight reveals its top 10 predictions for natural and paid search in 2011

With Google’s Instant Preview here to stay, leading search marketing specialist and technology firm Greenlight, has 2011 pegged as “web design year”. Greenlight predicts Google and Bing will offer app search before the year is out, competition between the two to hot up and dupl

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21st Dec 2010

Predictions – What 2011 holds for Paid Search

When it comes to paid search, here at Greenlight we're tipping 2011 to be the year that, display marketing starts to mirror much of what is search in practice. And that's just one of our predictions. Here's more on what we're expecting to unfold for paid search in 2011

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