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Some Clever Advertising

This little kid knows how to get things done… I’m no United fan but fair play to the ad agency, its a good un. Check it out at Creative Commercials…. *tip, if you’re having trouble blogging any of their videos, wrap a set of < object > tags around their embed html.

Getting Paid To Review In A Nice Way

Not that you are “reviewing things in a nice way” but its a nice way to get paid to review – ReviewMe. Yesterday evening after mentioning earlier in the week that TLA were getting picked up by Mediawhiz, an email arrives in from TLA alerting me to Reviewme.com, mentioning that I had been preapproved for…

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Mediawhiz Acquire Text Link Ads

Excerpt from a mail this afternoon… Text Link Ads Inc will be joining forces with MediaWhiz. This will bring some exciting changes to our platform. Here is how this will benefit you in the coming months… Publishers: by leveraging MediaWhiz’s agency relationships and sales staff we will be able to sell more ad space on…

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Creative Imagination In Advertising

I guess “Creative Imagination” would have been a good name if I was a marketer as much as someone with a love for design but for those people into advertising… here’s the “Top 5 Most Creative Ads” as posted on TechEBlog today. Here’s a sampler (from Honda UK)…

Google Video Ads – I’m Impressed

Just a quick note on Google’s video ads through AdSense – I’m impressed. After posting this morning (Probability = 0.0000001%), the blog refreshed, and low-and-behold the AdSense block to the right of the top post (top of column two) was now playing a video. Short and snappy, a self-promotion video for Google on some of…

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Making Sure Your TV Ad Is Seen (On Digital)

Niche men’s channel FX plans to show what it calls the first UK advert specially designed to combat viewers using digital recorders to avoid commercials. The advert for its new drama “Brotherhood” will show a single image on the screen for the entire 30-second slot, and therefore retain its “sales message” when viewed even at…

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Unique Visitors Don’t Like, Or See, Ads

World Cup Access. The World Cup is over, starting to become a distant memory to those who followed it even religiously. So this morning I notice there’s something funny with the stats. A jump from 200 uniques on Sunday to over 1700 on Monday. The value of that increase…. 38 cent 🙂 Of course its…

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Dell And The World Cup

I’m gripped by World Cup fever, but you’ve got to hand it to Dell for their nice World Cup marketing. Any of you who subscribe to their newsletter will be aware this morning of their World Cup game… and if not, then you can pick it up here. Nice flash based application where the more…

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Nikon Climb Aboard The Flickr Train

Via Steve Rubel’s blog it seems that Nikon have struck up a partnership with Flickr which will see the introduction (for the first time ever) of graphical contextual ads on Flickr by a third party company in relation to their photographs. What it means for users is that they’re going to wind up with a…

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Text Link Ads Calculator

Text Link Ads (affiliate link) have added a calculator to their service, detailing what you can expect to get from them finance-wise if your ad space sells. Interesting to see the combination of pagerank and content category (e.g. gambling earns more than real estate which earns more than technology). Check it out here (not an…

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