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Innovative Ad Behavior

At the beginning of the summer, Hop Studios set up an new type of ad placement with our client Noozhawk. Their timely, seasonal Summer Fun section merged news stories about summer activities for kids, with a browsable directory of activities, camps, teams, and workshops. Traditionally…

Are Visitors Blocking Your Site’s Ads? Find Out, and Do Something About It

If you’re web user that uses ad-blocking software, you’re in good company. And by good, of course, I mean there are a lot of you.

For website visitors, there are lot of upsides to turning on ad-blocking software: more privacy, faster page loads, and most of all, relief from…

How to Defend Your Site from Intrusions, Threats and Really Annoying Punks

Hop Studios has been up and running for 13 years, and every year, one or more of our client’s websites has been hacked in some way. Some of these have spectacularly obvious—home pages overwritten with strange content—but most have been relatively hard to spot immediately, regardless of…