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Advertising Lab 22 hours ago:

A Cheat Code in Halo 4 Box Art Puzzle -

Microsoft unveiled the box art for the upcoming Halo 4 game by emailing Xbox community members one of the 32 pieces of puzzle that when assembled together reveal the image.

Advertising Lab 6 days ago:

Google's Screenwise Project Listens To TV Habits -

Google's Screenwise research project announced back in February is designed to collect data on more than just Internet behavior.

Advertising Lab 6 days ago:

In Case of Emergency, Eat This Book -

Land Rover in the United Arab Emirates printed 5,000 edible copies of a desert survival guide. Twenty-eight pages of potato-based starch paper have a slightly sugary taste from the glycerin-based ink and are bound by a spiral that can be used as skewers.

Advertising Lab May 08 12 :

Pinnable Ads -

Saw this page on AdKeeper, the company that is trying to make online advertising bookmarkable. This could be an interesting way for Pinterest itself to make money: becoming a network for ads that people will want to hold on to.

Advertising Lab Apr 27 12 :

Do People Hear Ads When They Are In a Coma? -

"...when they run to the bathroom" is what I meant to ask. In case you are wondering, some studies show that people in a coma can hear.

Advertising Lab Mar 06 12 :

Pinterestorama -

Pretty -- a panorama made of Pinterest boards. Saw something similar on Flickr a few years back.

Advertising Lab Mar 06 12 :

Play Scrabble Over Twitter With TwitterScrabble -

Arrange 100 characters into the highest-scoring tweet of the day to win your box of Scrabble Trickster with this brilliant Belgian Twitter Scrabble promotion.

Advertising Lab Mar 05 12 :

Google Still Indexes AdSense Ads As Content; Top Search Result Are PDFs -

Four years ago, I noticed that Google was indexing AdSense ads as if it were content on the host pages.

Advertising Lab Mar 02 12 :

Putin, Viagra, and The Unfortunate Ad Placement of the Day -

A new puppet show in Russia shows Vladimir Putin fighting the loss of his penis, according to this Reuters story that was accompanied by a I Can't Believe It's Viagra banner.

Advertising Lab Mar 01 12 :

California Dogs Tune Into Their Own TV Channel -

I Cats can has cheezburger, but dogs are getting their own TV programming. San Diego dogs subscribed to Cox or Time Warner now have their own 24/7 TV channel called DogTV, soon to roll out nationwide.

Advertising Lab Feb 29 12 :

How To Hijack Facebook Likes, and Other Social Engineering -

The Pinterest Giveaway Scam got pretty big today; at one point about 10% of Pinterest homepage pins were scam pins.

Advertising Lab Feb 29 12 :

The Illustrated Anatomy of a Viral Pinterest Scam -

Update: Part II - Social Media for Social Engineering It started with a tweet from a friend: Never one to pass a scam, I dutifully clicked and landed on a page with this URL: http://giftinterest.

Advertising Lab Feb 07 12 :

Instead Of Sales, They Seek Applause -

"Advertising is salesmanship. Its principles are the principles of salesmanship. Successes and failures in both lines are due to like causes.

Advertising Lab Feb 03 12 :

Why Facebook Will Do Search And Why Google Needs Social -

Mark Zuckerberg posted a picture of himself in front of his computer, and an eagle-eyed blogger noticed that his version of Facebook sports a larger-than-usual search box.

Advertising Lab Feb 02 12 :

Convert Your RSS Into Email Newsletters With Ads -

This is a sponsored post. RevResponse, a company that helps bloggers make money by selling and giving away white papers and magazine subscriptions, has a new nifty tool that converts a blog's RSS feed into an email with automatically inserted promo offers.

Advertising Lab Feb 01 12 :

How To Remove Ads from YouTube Videos -

Simple. Except for the pre-roll.

Advertising Lab Jan 24 12 :

Future: The Pirate Bay Loads Up on Physical Goods -

Not science fiction anymore, this: "Once chairs and other things become content, the prospect of rampant chair piracy turns from unimaginable into very real.

Advertising Lab Jan 19 12 :

In Memoriam: Kodak Scenic Spots -

I took my first Kodak Photo Spot (wiki) pictures at my spring break trip to the Disney World in the mid-1990s, and through all these years I've never stopped admiring their genius.

Advertising Lab Jan 17 12 :

Spy Plane As Propaganda Tchotchke -

An Iranian company Aaye Art Group ("designer and manufacturer of artistic and cultural goods") is making replicas of the American RQ-170 drone aircraft downed in Iran last month: "Most of the toys, which come in several colors and are made of Iranian plastic, have already been snapped up by Iranian government organizations.

Advertising Lab Jan 15 12 :

Augmented Reality Glasses from Lumus -

Ever dreamed of watching a video or a favorite TV show on the go? Well, aren't you lucky: Daily Mail: "Translucent TV: Lumus' PD-18-2 is a set of spectacles that can beam high-quality images directly into your eyes but allows the user to see through the images too.

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