Six examples of prankvertising: they’re big but are they clever?
LG Uploaded on September 2 2013, the LG meteor prank named Ultra Reality, has so far achieved more than 14m views on YouTube: This is...
Category: Interactive marketing
Privacy Group Can Finally Start Work as Facebook Beacon Suit Ends
Following more than three and a half years in limbo, a group established as a result of the Facebook Beacon settlement to promote online privacy...
Onion Quits Print in Final Three Cities
The Onion is halting its print version in Chicago and its two other remaining markets with its Dec. 12 issue. The newsweekly was 25 years...
Marketing automation: six case studies and an infographic on how it improves sales and revenue
So read on to find details of the six case studies, or for more information check out our blog post on how marketing automation works...
Ubiquitous-in-Adland Michael Kassan Gets His Own Radio Show
If you’re in the ad business, there’s probably been a time when you’ve wondered if Michael Kassan has doppelgangers to help him be in several...
Michael Kors’s Instagram Ad: 36K Likes, 200 Rage-Filled Comments
Instagram’s first ad from Michael Kors has begun surfacing in users’ streams today, prompting thousands of likes and a couple hundred outraged comments. Published today...
Is your digital marketing ‘lost in translation’?
Last month, I wrote about what marketing was really all about. It was kind of radical. In fact, I’m sure that it made more than...
Samsung Inks $100 Million Sponsorship Deal With the NBA
Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest maker of smartphones, signed a multiyear deal to supply the National Basketball Association with mobile devices and televisions. Under the...
Here’s How Native Ads Will Scale
Though it may reign as the advertising industry’s favorite buzzword, so-called “native” advertising has yet to prove its ability to scale. But that may not...
Google Hides Search Terms From Publishers, Marketers
When you’re Google, subtle shifts have a big impact. That was the case last month, when the search giant announced it would severely limit the...
Google Cranks Up Ads In Search As Keyword Prices Decline
It may have been easy to overlook how crowded with ads Google’s search results pages have become over the last couple years. But it’s hard...
Microsoft Taps ‘Super Bowl King’ Bryan Buckley For First Xbox One Ads
Here come the Xbox One ads. In preparation for its Nov. 22 launch, the Xbox One is set to air “Invitation,” a big-budget TV spot...
Can Oliver Stone (?!) Convince Americans to Protest Against the NSA?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit San Francisco-based organization that works to “defend your rights in the digital world,” has released “Stop Watching Us: The...
Twitter Seeks $1.4 Billion in Biggest Web IPO Since Facebook
Twitter is seeking as much as $1.4 billion in the largest Internet initial public offering since Facebook, betting it can convince investors of its ability...
Google Nabs Upfront Deal With MediaVest for U.S. Advertisers
MediaVest has signed an upfront deal with Google to commit an undisclosed amount of advertiser spending toward running video, display and mobile ads on Google’s...
Instagram Rolls Out In-Stream Ads As Facebook Seeks to Boost Mobile Revenue
Instagram’s cautious roll-out of its in-stream ads is now underway. U.S. users who open the app in the coming week will see an “educational ad”...
