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  • Campaign ID

    A campaign ID is a unique tracking code that is added to published URLs for the purpose of determining the relative effectiveness of different tactics and publisher scenarios.

  • Campaign

    The process of planning, creating, buying and tracking an advertising project from start to finish.

  • Cache Bursting

    This process, also known as “defeating cache”, is accomplished by adding a random number to the banner HTML each time the page is reloaded. This causes a separate banner request to be sent to the server, thus insuring the banner is not cached and banner advertisement impressions are not undercounted.

  • Cache

    A type of computer memory that stores previously accessed documents so that they can be accessed faster should they be needed again. If you go back to a web page that you have previously visited, much of the pages content may be able to be accessed from a local cache or gateway proxy instead of…

  • Button

    A type of advertising unit that is smaller than a banner and usually placed in parts of a web page where space is limited such as in narrow columns on the left or right side of a page.

  • BTL

    Below the line (BTL) is a type of sales promotion focusing on short-term incentives, usually targeted towards consumers.

  • Boutique

    An agency that provides a limited service, such as one that does creative work but does not provide media planning, research, etc. Usually, this refers to a relatively small company.

  • Bounce Rate

    Used in web site traffic analysis. This represents the percentage of initial visitors to a site who “bounce” away to a different site, rather than continue on to other pages within the same site. With regards to mass e-mail sends this is the ratio of the number of e-mail messages rejected by recipient servers to…

  • Blind Traffic

    Web visitor traffic that is generated using blind links.

  • Blind Link

    A text or graphical hyperlink which does not clearly indicate where the hyperlink leads to.

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