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Aggressive Advertising by Google
2008-09-06
It's not all about Adwords anymore
Google is trying to get advertising agencies to warm up to it after years of not
being their favorite entity. After all, think of all the marketing dollars spent
on search engine advertising (and SEO campaigns for that matter) that agencies
missed out on because of a certain search giant.
Google Shows Off
Stephanie Clifford at the New York Times writes about Google invading the
offices of advertising agency Leo Burnett back in July, setting up some kind of
mini-carnival of sorts to show off their advertising technology. It seems that
the company wants to recruit agencies to use its tools, but some of these
agencies believe Google has ulterior motives.
"As Google begins trying to sell television, radio and print advertising and
creates tools for buying and planning media campaigns, some advertising
executives and academics say that the company is working with the agencies in
order to eventually displace them," writes Clifford.
Aggressive Advertising
It's not unreasonable to suspect that Google has its own best interests in mind.
Why wouldn't it? The company does seem to be working its way further into the
advertising world more aggressively than ever. For example, they're talking
about not even waiting for Federal approval before going forward with their ad
deal with Yahoo.
That's being investigated as a possible antitrust issue. Imagine if Google was
able to phase out ad agencies. I don't anticipate that happening anytime soon,
however. Google is big, and it has a lot of pull, but it's not everything. It's
a notion that even Google itself dismisses.
"I don?t see how we would be able to actually provide a better customer
experience to an individual client than an agency can today," says Google Vice
President for North American ad sales, Penry Price. "There?s no way we could
actually line up behind one customer and offer the services and information that
an agency can today."
A Lot of Ads in Google's Future
Don't mark the extinction of agencies yet, but there is no question that Google
is getting a lot bigger in its advertising britches these days. You got YouTube
ads starting to come out, RSS ads in Feedburner, and don't forget that
DoubleClick aquisition. If that Yahoo! deal goes through unscathed, that's going
to be one big chunk of the advertising market that's going to get even bigger
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