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Category Archives: Advertising

Medialets: Changing the mobile ad space

What is one device that everyone has? It’s not a TV, not a computer, or not even a laundry machine (me). But we all got cellphones. More and more of us are getting iPhones too, and with the development of open-source Android, the possibilities are endless.
Enter Eric Litman and Rana Sobhany, rockstars and media [...]

“January 1 TCP/IP” scam

When you visit google.com today, there is a new doodle:

When you click the link, it queries “January 1 tcp/ip“, which links to a Digg story about today being the 25th birthday of TCP/IP.
The funny thing is, under this story is a flurry of Adsense scams.

As soon as the doodle went up, people created content [...]

Facebook quietly launches Page-only apps

When I went to create a Facebook “Page” for Planet Blacksburg, I noticed that you can add apps to them. I clicked on the More Applications and then the “by Facebook” tab. There are a few really cool apps that I have never seen before.

My favorite is the Flash player app. Looks like you can [...]

iPhone ads: TV versus reality

From the CNETTV Blog, by Rich DeMuro
When I saw that first iPhone ad pop up on TV a few weeks ago, I stopped in my tracks. While I had seen lots of pictures and read lots of write-ups about the phone and its features, this was the first time I had seen fingers on [...]

And then there were eight

25 years of media mergers, from GE-NBC to Google-YouTube.
This image shows how only a few big corporations control the media.
Source: Columbia Journalism Review, Free Press

DoubleClick to Google

The search giant willl shell out $3.1 billion in cash for the Internet’s largest advertising group DoubleClick, according to a press release today.

“It has been our vision to make Internet advertising better–less intrusive, more effective and more useful,” said Sergey Brin, one of Google’s co-founders.
According to CNET, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and AOL were also in talks [...]