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  • Comic: Ad-ception

    Instacart’s Ads Biz Sets It Up For An IPO; Food Delivery Apps Are Checking Out AI

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Add To CART Instacart filed for its initial public offering (IPO) on Friday. Shares should start trading next month (under the stock ticker CART, of course). Call it a thawing of the tech IPO market, which has been frozen for a year and […]

  • Comic: A Brief History of Search

    The Brand Search Squeeze That’s Throttling The Internet

    A legendary anecdote by Restoration Hardware CEO Gary Friedman recounts how, almost 10 years ago, Restoration’s marketing team pushed to double its budget because search ads were converting customers at unbelievably low costs. Friedman asked which of Restoration Hardware’s 3,200 keywords drove sales. “Restoration Hardware” was the top performer – followed by 21 common misspellings of […]