Introducing Bizo MyAds -- The Ad Targeting Platform for B2B Marketers of all Sizes

By Russell Glass
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Mass marketing has historically been the purview of the “big guys”— large agencies and huge brands with the budgets to afford glitzy Madison Avenue campaigns across TV, radio, and print.Their goal was simple: create a known brand so that potential customers chose their products over the competition.

Fast forward to today. Thanks to the Internet, smaller companies now have access to the same mass marketing opportunities, reaching and exposing their brands to broad audiences. In addition, the...

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Bizo enhances Analyze and Targetable Segments

By Russell Glass
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

imageWe're excited to announce that we just released the latest upgrades to our targetable B2B audience segments and Bizo Analyze product. These upgrades deliver two powerful capabilities to marketers using the Bizo products:

1. Exporting: Marketers and publishers that use Bizo Analyze can now export any query from their dashboard to a .CSV file for easy use within Microsoft Excel or other data management software. This makes it even easier to work with the B2B website traffic data that Bizo Analyze...
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Audience Segmentation in Action

By Russell Glass
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
imageHoover’s is one of the leading sources of proprietary business information with a database of information on more than 30 million corporations and organizations, and more than 35 million people. Their trade is the intelligence that business people need to get their jobs done.

Earlier this year, Hoover’s marketers went through the process of drilling down to answer just what kind of businessperson is their best target customer. It’s an exercise that marketing departments go through all the time,...

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Bizo – Supercharging B2B landing pages – BizAudience API available in beta today

By Russell Glass
Monday, February 1, 2010

Today, B2B marketing is largely a process of driving visitors to a website, and often to specific landing pages within that website. Whether a marketer is using email, search, webinars, display ads, or a combination of all of the above, the ultimate goal is to bring a visitor to their website to purchase a product or fill out a form for more information. A ton of work and budget goes into creating the campaigns that convince users to come to a landing page, not to mention the fact that roughly...

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The Next Generation of Truly Transparent Ads

By Russell Glass
Thursday, January 7, 2010
If you’ve been following this blog or if you’ve spent any time on our Web site, you know that Bizohas a deep commitment to transparency. We built this company around the idea that it was possible to target advertising without compromising anyone’s privacy. (Read more about thathere and here.)

But lately we’ve been thinking about what it might look like if we were to take transparency even further in the online ad space. What would it be like if with every ad you saw online, you knew exactly how...

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Bizo and Multi-Channel Media Attribution

By Russell Glass
Monday, December 14, 2009
One of the keys to fixing display advertising is finding an alternative to the click-through as a metric for measuring the success of online advertising campaigns.

The most promising – and most practical – form of next-gen measurement is multi-channel media attribution. Multi-channel attribution is measurement of how all marketing channels affect the actions of a prospect or customer. For example, a multi-channel attribution model would measure how adding a display ad campaign to search and email...

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B2B Across the Pond

By Russell Glass
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Today we announced our partnership with The Digital Partnership, a UK-based digital business-advertising network that boasts 6.6 million unique business users. We’ll work with TDP to introduce our bizographic-based ad targeting to the UK. Through Bizo, TDP will get access to the anonymous targeting data for the more than 45 million business professionals in our bizographic database.

We’re excited to work with TDP to extend our reach across the Atlantic and participate in a market that is ripe... Continue Reading »

Our Vision

By Russell Glass
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
At Bizo, we’re passionate about our commitment to privacy and relevancy, the precise reach we offer advertisers and the revenue streams we provide for online B2B publishers.

To share some of these ideas in a more conversational manner, we’re launching a series of videos to talk about our principles and other thoughts that may be of interest to our customers, partners and others in the industry.

To kick it off we wanted to share the Bizo vision. Please take a look at let us know what you think....Continue Reading »

Model of Excellence: Bizo

By Russell Glass
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Every year the good people at the InfoCommerce Group — the venerable consulting, research and events company in the specialized information and data publishing industry — set out to answer the question: Who’s doing it right when it comes to cutting-edge uses of data to solve complex business issues?

This year, we’re pleased to announce, Bizo was named as finalist in the process of answering that question. Bizo joined 10 other data-driven businesses to create the 2009 class of Model of Excellence...

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Bringing B-to-B Publishers a New Business Model

By Russell Glass
Thursday, October 22, 2009
In June, we hired B2B publishing veteran Bill Furlong as Bizo's Vice President of Business Development (You can read more about Bill and the rest of Bizo's team here). Here's Bill's take on the very important role Bizo plays for B2B publishers in the online world.

As someone who has spent most of his career in business-to-business publishing, I’ve been there to witness what the web has done to these outlets, how it has changed their business and how the best of them have adapted their models to... Continue Reading »

Introducing Bizo’s Premier Data Reseller Partner Program

By Russell Glass
Monday, October 5, 2009

Today I am excited to announce the launch of our Premier Data Reseller Partner Program. Even more exciting is that we’re working with the folks at interCLICK as the inaugural member of the program and we’ve agreed to give them exclusive access to the program benefits through the rest of 2009. Like Bizo, interCLICK is making a name for itself as an industry leader in the transparent use of audience targeting data and this partnership gives interCLICK access to our entire store of bizographics...

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Bizographics: Anonymous + Effective

By Russell Glass
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
At Bizo we talk a lot about bizographics as the cornerstone of our targeting technology. And while it’s true that we’re doing our part to popularize the term, bizographics have been around in some form or another for decades.

Everyone has a bizographic profile: your job function, your industry, the size of your company, etc. In the print publishing world, this information was used to support targeted trade publications who could tell their advertisers exactly who they’d be reaching and charge a... Continue Reading »

Data Drives Bizo

By Russell Glass
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
I asked Bizo's Director of Engineering, Donnie Flood, to write a post about the technology behind the Bizo ad targeting platform. He obliged and here it is: 

Bizo's technology is built around three things: data, data and data.

More specifically, we make it easy to collect, classify, target, analyze, and report on bizographic data. Whether creating drop-dead simple integration code for our publishers to gain insight into their traffic or providing deep bizographic analysis of an advertiser's... Continue Reading »

Where we stand on online privacy and transparency

By Russell Glass
Thursday, September 10, 2009
More news broke this week about lawmakers working on legislation to better protect the personal details accumulated about online users.

I take Rep. Rick Boucher at his word when he says, “Our goal is not to hinder online advertising.”Many in the industry don’t, however, and worry that rigid laws will hamper a still-evolving advertising model and mire the online experience in a web of opt-outs that will hinder both advertisers and publishers.

But the bottom line is, whether it comes from...

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Looking back at the last two years, and looking ahead at what's to come.

By Russell Glass
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
It’s been almost two years since my last blog post. It’s amazing how much we’ve accomplished since I wrote about the “new ad targeting platform” that we were working on inside of Zoom. At the time, I was in the middle of cobbling together a crazy itinerary from San Francisco to New York to announce the launch of the bizographic targeting platform for ZoomInfo. Since then, we’ve transformed a seed of an idea into the world’s first bizographic targeting company, Bizo. Amazingly, other than... Continue Reading »