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Amazon’s ‘secret ad pricing scheme’ revealed in previously redacted documents

Search Engine Land

New documents detail the alleged deceptive practices used to boost consumer prices by more than $1 billion including deliberately making Amazon search worse – a strategy reportedly approved by chairman Jeff Bezos. Raising prices for consumers. Consumers pay the price. Why we care. The impact of Junks Ads.

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Deflation comes to ecommerce as online prices fall 2% in July

Martech

Online prices were down 2% in July compared to June and 1% compared to last year, according to the Adobe Digital Price Index. This is the first decrease since January 2020, just before the pandemic and follows three consecutive months of slowing price increases. YoY between 2015 and 2019. Last month prices fell only 0.1%

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Our New Transparent Pricing Dashboard: Where Your Money Goes When You Buy a Buffer Subscription

Buffer Marketing

We’re also happy to share a more sustainable way of providing this information — our new transparent pricing dashboard. Another important detail to note is how Average Sales Price (ASP) and Expenses have changed over time. Our Average Sale Price (ASP) in 2014 was $13, while our total Operating Costs were $3,575,897.

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Google denies manipulating ad auctions in resurfaced SMX Advanced clip

Search Engine Land

Google denied manipulating ad auctions at SMX Advanced 2015 – eight years before admitting it actually does. The SMX Advanced 2015 clip was resurfaced by Tinuiti’s VP of Research, Andy Taylor, who claims Dischler made the denial in response to a presentation he had just given. Why has Google been tweaking search ad prices?

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End It on a High Note! Savvy Marketing Tips to Finish 2015 Strong

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Aseem Badshah We’re more than halfway through 2015. (It There’s still 4+ months remaining in 2015, so don’t waste it. With this in mind, let’s analyze how we can leverage the first half of 2015 in order to close the year out strong. Facebook changed its video ad pricing after many complaints.

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Has Google Ads lost all credibility? Why one advertiser says it’s time to leave

Search Engine Land

Google stunned the PPC community after openly admitting to quietly adjusting ad prices to meet targets. The confession comes eight years after Google Ad executive Jerry Dischler denied the search engine manipulates ad auctions at SMX Advanced in 2015. ” “That terminology is increasingly misleading at best.”

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This day in search marketing history: February 10

Search Engine Land

How to use Google’s new price competitiveness report in Merchant Center 2020: You could see how your product pricing compared to your Google Shopping competitors. Google Introduces Rich Medical Content Into Knowledge Graph 2015: Users would soon see deeper health information for more than 400 conditions.