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Background Wrap Ad on Digg

Advertising Lab  Nov 07 09

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...

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Branded Biographies

Advertising Lab  2 days ago

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.

Graph Media Activities With a Wheel Chart

Advertising Lab  2 days ago

This hand-drawn "media wheel" shows what media people consume when and where, based on data points from a syndicated research.

Honesty in Advertising: Mobile Home Company

Advertising Lab  3 days ago

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.

There Is This Company

Advertising Lab  3 days ago

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.

Vending Machine Sells Ideas

Advertising Lab  3 days ago

50 cents a pop. Maybe it can be hacked to sell slogans? - BB, via ---------------- I'm reading The Advertising Research Handbook.

Serving Ads on Images Isn't Easy

Advertising Lab  4 days ago

I kept coming across this ad overlays on images today, and they led me back to Image Space Media, the company behind the format.

Redesign a Van Fleet for Dish Network

Advertising Lab  4 days ago

The first client project from Victors & Spoils is a nice break from the usual "create-a-cool-video" kind of the crowdsourcing assignment.

Integrating Display Ads into Content

Advertising Lab  4 days ago

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.

Dead Body Spam

Advertising Lab  6 days ago

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).

Esquire AR Issue Hits Newstands

Advertising Lab  Nov 13 09

The December issue of Esquire with the augmentedly realistic Robert Downey Jr. on the cover has finally arrived to our news store.