Republicans Use Obama as Weapon in House Contest in Mississippi
May 13, 2008
NYT > U.S. / By ADAM NOSSITER
Hoping to hang on to a seat in a tight special election, Republicans are trying to make the vote into a referendum on Barack Obama. ...
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Advertisers Can't Sell Hard Liquor But Google Can
May 14, 2008
Search Engine Watch Blog
Google Adwords has a strict no advertising rule for hard liquor as they call it. You will not find ads for terms like rum, gin or vodka. Well.... vodka searches now add a twist. Google has started to ...
Disturbing Playstation Ad Will Put You Off Video Games Forever ...
May 13, 2008
Gawker / Hamilton Nolan
Out of a Vienna ad agency comes this abomination of a Playstation 3 ad that, were there truly a God, would never have shone its dark light on world. Let me try to paint a verbal picture for you: it's. ...
Advertising: Yahoo and WPP in Partnership
May 16, 2008
NYT > Technology / By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD
The deal between Yahoo and WPP Group, the advertising holding company, will give WPP’s clients a broader swath of Web sites where they can aim their messages. ...
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O La La: "French Maids" Are Cleaning up with "How ...
May 16, 2008
Beet.TV / Andy_Plesser
Click to play So, we've been talking to some clever independent Hollywood Web producers about making money out of Web video by creating entertaining, sponsored content. Tim Street, producer/director/w ...
Thanks to This Week's Advertisers
May 16, 2008
SFist / tien mao
We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. Coldplay's Viva La Vida Tour, where you can enter for a chance to win tickets to their concert at Madison Square Garden. The G ...
RNC targets Barack Obama in gun ad as John McCain ...
May 16, 2008
Top of the Ticket / Scott Martelle
It's almost like they had Friday planned out as "Second Amendment Day" on the campaign trail. Barack Obama started the day in Watertown, S.D., where he wrangled with John McCain and President Bush ove ...
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Turner to Offer Marketers Way to Link Ads to Content
May 14, 2008
NYT > Arts / By STUART ELLIOTT
Turner Entertainment is offering a new system intended to pair commercials with relevant moments in the shows they interrupt. ...
Advertising: Fox Will Bring Back ‘Idol,’ and Add Sci-Fi
May 14, 2008
NYT > Arts / By JACQUES STEINBERG and BILL CARTER
Fox will introduce a science-fiction-oriented drama from J. J. Abrams of “Lost” and a comedy about life at a luxury hotel starring Jerry O’Connell. ...
Fake, Funny Poncho Ad Causes Outrage, Laughter [Controversy]
May 13, 2008
Consumerist / Meg Marco
One person's joke is someone else's insult it seems. Reader Nate sent in a photo of a fake poncho ad that ran in the LOLCats themed issue of the Boston-area free magazine Weekly Dig. He thinks the ad ...
WPP Settles on Name for Dell Shop: Synarchy Worldwide
May 14, 2008
Advertising Age - Homepage / rparekh@adage.com (Rupal Parekh)
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- The new WPP Group agency designed to handle Dell's marketing-services business is expected to be named Synarchy Worldwide, a reference to a utopian political system coined ...
Fox Plans to Run Fewer Ads in 2 New Prime-Time ...
May 16, 2008
NYT > Business / By BILL CARTER
The president of Fox Entertainment announced a plan that would allow two of its new dramas, “Fringe” and “Dollhouse,” to run as many as 50 minutes of story each episode. ...
BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find ...
May 15, 2008
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Better the Google You Know Than the Microsoft You Don’t
May 16, 2008
Digital Daily / John Paczkowski
Can a search advertising alliance between Yahoo and Google possibly pass regulatory muster? We may soon find out. Now that investor-tormentor Carl Icahn has filed a proxy slate to unseat Yahoo’s boa ...
Craigslist’s Countersuit Criticizes eBay’s Tactics
May 14, 2008
NYT > Technology / By LAURIE J. FLYNN
The online classifieds company filed a countersuit against minority owner eBay, accusing it of unfair competition, false advertising, trademark infringement and diluting the value of the Craigslist tr ...
BriefingsDirect Insights Analysts Probe the Future of Online Advertising and ...
May 15, 2008
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Interarbor Solutions' Briefings Direct: Unique B2B informational podcasts that offer the value of objective perspectives from leading industry analyst Dana Gardner. Briefings Direct delivers actionabl ...
Advertising: ABC Fall Roster Is Heavy on the Already Proven
May 13, 2008
NYT > Television / By JACQUES STEINBERG and STUART ELLIOTT
Having lost four months of its development season to the writers’ strike, the network will, at least initially, rely heavily on fan favorites. ...
Punishing the Gas Guzzlers: Brussels Plans Crackdown on Car Advertising
May 15, 2008
SPIEGEL ONLINE - International
The European Union bureaucracy is on a roll: After imposing restrictions on how tobacco, alcohol and food products can be advertised, it has set its sights on gas-guzzling cars. But German manufacture ...
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Microsoft Has Little for Advertisers
May 16, 2008
WSJ.com: What's News Technology
Microsoft will deliver some news on its online services next week when online advertisers descend on Seattle, though it is not likely to provide the real shot in the arm the business needs. ...
National Research Firm Launches Music Video Contest for Election '08
May 16, 2008
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[$$] Without Yahoo, Microsoft Has Little for Advertisers (at The ...
May 16, 2008
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Microsoft Has Little for Advertisers Microsoft will deliver some news on its online services next week when online advertisers descend on Seattle, though it is not likely to provide the real shot in t ...
Lawmakers Ask Charter to Delay Plan to Monitor Web Surfing
May 16, 2008
Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge / Mark Hefflinger
Washington - Following news this week that broadband ISP Charter Communications (NASD: CHTR) was planning to begin tracking its subscribers' Web surfing habits in order to serve them targeted ads, two ...
Intrusion to Intent: Content is the Advertising
May 16, 2008
Zoho Blogs / Sridhar
Lately, I have been thinking about advertising - no, not as a business model for Zoho, advertising and work-oriented software don’t mix, in my opinion - but from the point of view as an adverti ...
Yahoo, WPP Sign Multi-Year Digital Advertising Partnership
May 16, 2008
Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge / Mark Hefflinger
Sunnyvale, Calif. - Yahoo (NASD: YHOO) on Friday announced a multi-year strategic partnership with several units of advertising giant WPP (NASD: WPPGY), which the company said will allow the companies ...
IAB: US Net Ad Revenues Topped $21B In '07
May 16, 2008
Top News - WebProNews / David A. Utter
Full year 2007 US advertising revenues exceeded 2006 by 26 percent, hitting a mark of $21.2 billion last year. read more ...
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