Oh, wow. So much for the subtlety of the new ad format -- just bumped into a background wrap on Digg promoting a video game. ---------------- I'm reading The Advertising Research Handbook. Full story...
If you had only 160 characters to introduce yourself, what words would do you pick?
Would any of these words be a brand name?
I've looked at how people associate themselves with brands in their Twitter bios using a nifty Google query ("bio * keyword" site:twitter.
This hand-drawn "media wheel" shows what media people consume when and where, based on data points from a syndicated research.
I wonder whether the company, with its spot hitting 800K+ views on YouTube, isn't going to make more money selling their $15 t-shirts that it does selling trailers.
Here's something I've been thinking about for some time now.
You see, there is this company.
It publishes over a hundred RSS feeds and several email newsletters, but not a single blog.
50 cents a pop. Maybe it can be hacked to sell slogans?
- BB, via
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I'm reading The Advertising Research Handbook.
I kept coming across this ad overlays on images today, and they led me back to Image Space Media, the company behind the format.
The first client project from Victors & Spoils is a nice break from the usual "create-a-cool-video" kind of the crowdsourcing assignment.
This site found an interesting way to integrate display ads into its content. The Google/Doubleclick ad is the second one (flat belly) in the top row; it also appears on the site's sidebar in the same fashion.
It's called "dead body spam" or "corpse graffiti": peddlers of virtual gold in World of Warcraft spell out their site's URL with bodies of dead players, a common practice in the game (watch video).
The December issue of Esquire with the augmentedly realistic Robert Downey Jr. on the cover has finally arrived to our news store.