Likewise, this helps the company compete more effectively with other ad-thirsty rivals such as Google, Yahoo and to a lesser extent Microsoft.

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Likewise, smart marketers can tap very sophisticated tools to optimize their ad spending so that the actual place ads run can be radically different than what an ad director may have thought initally.

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