{"id":7235,"date":"2018-08-24T09:38:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T14:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/?p=7235"},"modified":"2020-09-04T12:06:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T17:06:14","slug":"short-history-digital-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/blog\/short-history-digital-advertising\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Advertising: A Short History of Timing Out at 56KB\/Second"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">\r\n<article class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">\r\n<section class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-style-beige has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-772205c6 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained is-style-beige--1\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\r\n<header class=\"wp-block-group c-breadcrumbs aligngrid has-global-padding is-content-justification-left is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-61973aa6 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<header class=\"wp-block-group aligngrid is-content-justification-left is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-d68226ec wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\" style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mediavine-dev.d1.moderntribe.qa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/chevron-left2.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-542\" style=\"aspect-ratio:9\/16;object-fit:contain;width:auto;height:20px\"\/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"is-style-small is-style-small--2\"><a href=\"\/blog\/\">Back to Blog<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/header>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity aligngrid\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\"\/>\r\n<\/header>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-style-default has-neutral-20-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70);padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\"><div class=\"aligncenter aligncenter wp-block-tribe-terms\"><ul class=\"wp-block-tribe-terms__list\"><li class=\"wp-block-tribe-terms__term\"><span class=\"wp-block-tribe-terms__link t-category\">Advertising<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n<h1 style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);\" class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-title\">Digital Advertising: A Short History of Timing Out at 56KB\/Second<\/h1>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-9b38c6d9 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\"><div style=\"margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;\" class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-author-name\">Brad Hagmann<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u2022<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;\" class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-date has-10-font-size\"><time datetime=\"2018-08-24T09:38:12-05:00\">August 24, 2018<\/time><\/div><\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">As I\u2019ve discussed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/what-is-an-ad-exchange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previous articles<\/a>, I\u2019ve been in digital advertising operations for over a decade. In an ever-changing industry, this feels like a lifetime.\n\nSuffice it to say, ad operations have come a long way, and I\u2019ve observed countless changes in technology, business trends and markets.\n\nMore broadly, it goes without saying that the Internet has influenced how we work, spend and live, spawning multi-billion dollar industries in the process.\n\nAs technology evolves, communications improve and the world becomes more digitized with each passing year, the advertising industry inevitably follows.\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the first half of this two-part series, let\u2019s take a look back at the History of Digital Advertising (emphasis on back \u2026 <em>way back<\/em>) and how we got to where we are today.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/back-to-the-future-zZeCRfPyXi9UI\">https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/back-to-the-future-zZeCRfPyXi9UI<\/a>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/back-to-the-future-zZeCRfPyXi9UI\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\n\n<h3>Ah, the \u201990s.<\/h3>\nIt was a simpler time. A time of windbreakers, tuck-rolled up jeans, Coolio blasting on the boombox (or Discman) and Forrest Gump and Shawshank on the big screen.\n\nAlso noteworthy from this era? Parents, kids, spouses and siblings the world over yelling at one another because the home phone line is busy with a dial-up Internet connection.\n\nWith data streaming into American homes at breakneck speeds of 56 kilobytes per second, forward-thinking businesses started contemplating the monetization possibilities.\n\nThe advent of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/mediavine-the-force-that-awakens-ad-ops-success\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ad ops<\/a> may have occurred earlier, but went mainstream after 1994 when the popular online tech magazine \u201cHotWired\u201d was looking for ways to pay its writers.\n\nAn idea was created to set aside online real estate, so to speak: Specific placements on the website for something no one had ever heard of before.\n\nTo this day we know these as banner ads.\n\nThe concept was simple: Hard code an advertisement on the page and charge a flat rate for a specific period of time to appear in this space.\n\nWho better than past, present and future tech icon AT&amp;T to test this space first, paying $30,000 to have the ad you see below appear on page for 90 days:\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_7239\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7239\" style=\"width: 722px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7239 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/you_will_banner_ad.png\" alt=\"Have you ever cliecked your mouse right here? You will.\" width=\"722\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/you_will_banner_ad.png 722w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/you_will_banner_ad-441x52.png 441w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 722px) 100vw, 722px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/digiday.com\/media\/banner-ad-creator\/\">Digiday<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nTo say this first ad campaign \u2014 leading users who clicked to online tours of famous museums around the world \u2014 was a success would be an understatement.\n\nThe AT&amp;T banner was rumored to have experienced a click through rate (CTR) of over 44%. Yes, 44 out of every 100 people who saw it clicked through to the landing page.\n\nTo put that into perspective, the average click through rate in today\u2019s banner ad world is somewhere closer to 0.1% (that\u2019s one in a thousand).\n\nObviously, word traveled fast and the year or two that followed this campaign saw a huge increase in the number of companies entering this space.\n\nTech pioneers such as AOL, Yahoo! and Microsoft threw their hat into the web advertising arena, but there was still one major piece missing from the puzzle: Data.\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7206\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/advertisers-730x460.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people speaks in a conference room.\" width=\"600\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/advertisers-730x460.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/advertisers-441x278.jpg 441w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/advertisers-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/advertisers-735x463.jpg 735w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/advertisers.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<h3>Your ads are served.<\/h3>\nBy 1996, millions of dollars in ad budgets were being poured into this nascent technology, yet measuring return on investment from campaigns left much to be desired.\n\nAdvertisers couldn\u2019t see how well ads were performing until after a campaign ended, and the process for retrieving these statistics was clunky and inefficient at best.\n\nA revolutionary new technology stemmed from this lack of campaign data, transparency and management tools: An \u201cad server\u201d was introduced by a company called DoubleClick.\n\nDoubleClick debuted its ad server as part of a platform known as D.A.R.T. or \u201cDynamic Advertising Reporting &amp; Targeting,\u201d and it was an immediate game-changer.\n\nThis new technology allowed advertisers to gauge performance of a campaign as it was running, and make changes to optimize their ad placements and spend.\n\nMost importantly, this service gave way to a standardized measure of pricing for online ad campaigns: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/cpms-ecpms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CPM<\/a>. Just like that, paying flat rates for defined time periods was obsolete.\n\nFor the advertiser, pricing by CPM allowed for more flexibility and a much more accurate gauge of ROI. For the publisher, it meant increased competition, a means of establishing minimum values for their ad inventory and pitting advertisers against each other.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/AGMvhRsZxmIgM\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/90s-pop-culture-AGMvhRsZxmIgM\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\n<strong>Stay tuned for part two of this series, in which the ad tech industry evolves and rampantly ignores the advice of TLC by chasing waterfalls, left and right.<\/strong><\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-09aec4f2 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