It was a great year at Digiday. Our traffic was up 185 percent from 2012. Here are the stories that were the most popular this year:
1. Bank of America’s Epic Twitter Fail
2. 15 Alarming Stats About Banner Ads
3. 38 Signs You’ve Been in Advertising Agencies Too Long
4. 20 Surefire Ways to Anger Creatives
5. 5 Ways Brands Are Cutting Out Agencies
6. What a $4 Mil. Super Bowl Ad Could Buy in Digital
7. The 10 Worst People in Digital Media
8. For Politico High Traffic is ‘Overrated’
9. 30 Signs You’ve Been in Ad Sales Too Long
10. What Online Ads Really Cost
11. 15 Stats Brands Should Know About Millennials
12. 6 Creative Ad Agency Resumes
13. Zenith to Ad Sellers: Please Order Food
14. 15 Stats Brands Should Know About Online Video
15. 24 Signs You Are Definitely a Social Media Guru
16 The Winners and Losers of Publicis Omnicom
17. Is This the Worst Page on the Internet?
19. Google Takes Its Tracking Into the Real World
20. Dark Google Vexes Publishers
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