Google to start selling Radio Ads

In January 06 Google bought DMarc Broadcasting to help jumpstart themselves into the radio advertisement game. Since then there has not been much news from this side of the business. Today, I received a Google survey for some free adwords dollars. The entire survey was about radio advertisement. I think this is pretty good evidence that they are ramping up on this. Don’t be surprised to see Google selling radio ad spots thru their adwords center in the not to distant future. The last time I got a Google survey, it was about print advertisement, 2 weeks later they revealed it in beta form.

One of the more interesting and revealing questions was that Google was planning on putting advertisers directly in touch with production talent for creating radio advertisments. I am betting they have some sort of GUI interface were you put in copy, type of voice to be used, pause points, emphasied points etc… and Google pushes it to a production house.

Here are a few screen shots of the survey and the questions they are asking advertisers.

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Google is starting to dominate more forms of advertising, and now you may need a radio switch to hear their latest venture. They’re really reaching into the cash drawer on this one. Before you know it, they’ll be integrating into all fields and devices, like televisions, music players…even barcode scanners!

Written by Tim on July 12th, 2006 with 46 comments.
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Robert
#1. July 12th, 2006, at 1:33 PM.

I could see this coming. Google wants their hand in everything.

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#2. July 12th, 2006, at 4:53 PM.

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#3. July 13th, 2006, at 3:00 PM.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Journal » Blog Archive » Adwords to unlease radio ads: It appears that Adwords is selling Radio AdsAdwords Radio Ads

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#4. July 13th, 2006, at 3:15 PM.

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#5. July 13th, 2006, at 4:06 PM.

Google Ramping Up Radio Ads for Adwords– Frog Blog Search Marketing Guru: According to the TechTool Blog, Google is in the process of conducting online surveys with a number of Adwords ...

PSZach
#6. July 13th, 2006, at 5:25 PM.

http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=11933

This story was writen up a few weeks ago about the back end of this system.

PSZach
#7. July 13th, 2006, at 5:26 PM.

http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=1193

There we go…

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#8. July 13th, 2006, at 5:38 PM.

I wasn’t breaking the story of them going into Radio, rather pointing out how soon they might be going into production with it.

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#23. December 20th, 2006, at 7:33 PM.

I dont think this is the right way to enlarge the business in next time, but we will see

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#24. May 23rd, 2007, at 8:35 PM.

Yet another time-proven way to get the word out about your product or service. I’m confident that radio advertising by Google will allow them to remain the dominate marketing company that will encompassed everything related to marketing.

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#35. October 14th, 2008, at 6:46 AM.

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#37. October 23rd, 2008, at 12:53 PM.

The entire survey was about radio advertisement. I think this is pretty good evidence that they are ramping up on this.

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#38. October 30th, 2008, at 4:17 PM.

It was a very informative. Since then there has not been much news from this side of the business.

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#39. November 4th, 2008, at 6:23 PM.

I think this is pretty good evidence that they are ramping up on this. Don’t be surprised to see Google selling radio ad spots thru their adwords center in the not to distant future.

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