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Saturday, 17-May-2008 16:06:29 BST

Glossary of common terms used in online advertising

  • Audio Banner Base: Audio technology seamlessly integrating audio in banner advertisements on a website without using plug-ins, software downloads or installations. Audio play can start while graphics are still loading and can be user-initiated.
  • CPC: Cost per click, i.e. every time a user sees your message and clicks on it.
  • CPL: Cost per lead, i.e. every time a user sees your message and clicks on it and then goes on to either sign up to your newsletter or enquires about your products.
  • CPM: Cost to display your message 1000 times, a single time is every time a page with your message on is viewed.
  • CPS: Cost per sale, i.e. every time a user sees your message and clicks on it and then goes on to purchase your products.
  • DHTM: Short for dynamic hypertext mark-up Language, a web tool referring to Web content that changes each time it is viewed. The same URL could result in a different page depending on any number of parameters, such as geographic location of the reader, time of day, previous pages viewed by the reader, profile of the reader, etc. There are many technologies for producing dynamic HTML, including cookies, Java, and JavaScript.
  • Enliven: A highly effective rich media advertising solution supporting streaming multimedia animations on the Web, using existing technologies and standards.
  • Flash: A bandwidth friendly and browser independent vector-graphic interactive animation technology. Requires specific plug-ins.
  • HTML: Short for hypertext mark-up Language, a web language used to create documents on the World Wide Web. eply that automatically sends an email to the sender alerting them to this fact.
  • Interstitials: Meaning in between, an advertisement that appears in a separate browser window while you wait for a web page to load. Interstitials are more likely to contain large graphics, streaming presentations and applets than conventional banner ads. Some users, however, have complained that interstitials slow access to destination pages.
  • Java applets: Java is a high-level programming language developed by Sun Microsystems. Small Java programs designed to be executed from within another application are called Java applets and can be downloaded from a Web server and run on a computer by a Java-compatible web browser.
  • JavaScript: A scripting language developed by Netscape to enable Web authors to design interactive sites. Javascript can interact with HTML source code, enabling Web authors to spice up their sites with dynamic content.
  • Pop-up: A browser or command menu window that appears (pops up) on a user's computer screen.
  • SPAN: An HTML formatting tool used within text blocks to alter the appearance of only a portion of content within a designated HTML tag.
  • Streaming Media: Technologies for transferring and processing data as a steady and continuous stream. Since most users do not have fast enough access to download large multimedia files quickly, their browsers or plug-ins can start displaying the data before the entire file has been transmitted.
  • Superstitials: Interactive, non-banner ads that can be any size on the computer screen and up to 100K in file size, featuring full animation, sound and graphics capable of effectively conveying integrated advertising while protecting a Web site's performance.
 
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