Jul 01
Do you ever feel like ads are speaking to you? Well, new talking windows ads for Sky Go—a mobile streaming service—literally speak to you using bone conduction technology.
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Jun 28
We toss around likes as if they were high fives on the Internet. As affirmation of people doing the right thing. As oh hey look cool. As being silly and ironic. As the digital form of support. As a hug. As a fist bump. But what do those thumbs up actually do? Boosts someone’s ego? Spreads your online seed? In reality, nothing.
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Jun 28
No one really likes ads, but for better or worse, they’re a sort of necessary evil when it comes to, you know, making money online. And while Facebook’s not likely to stop sprinkling your stream with paid content, the social network announced a new plan today to tackle some of the more…questionable content that’s made its way onto the site. Starting Monday, the service will implement a new review process for deciding which Pages and groups will get their own accompanying ads. That process will be manual to start, with an automated version in the future. Facebook plans to have all the offending violent, graphic and sexual content removed by the end of next week.
Source: Facebook Newsroom
Jun 28
Starting on Monday, Facebook’s going to start stripping out ads from the more unsavory Facebook grou
Posted in: Today's ChiliStarting on Monday, Facebook’s going to start stripping out ads from the more unsavory
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Jun 20
Instagram Video Already Has Ads
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Instagram creator Kevin Systrom is unveiling video
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Twitter opens up ad-buying to all US users, brings new tools to self-promoters
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Twitter has been slowly expanding its advertising offerings for some time now — first with more ads in more places, then with more folks able to buy ads. Now it’s taken things one big step further and opened up its self-serve Twitter Ads platform to all users in the United States. That means anyone can now sign up and buy promoted tweets of their very own, with all the same options and analytics previously afforded to businesses and individuals invited to take part in the program. That doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be seeing more ads on Twitter, but you may well start seeing some more unexpected ones. Those interested in shelling out some cash can find all they need to get started at the links below.
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Source: Twitter Advertising Blog, Twitter Ads
Apr 22
Tumblr, originally founded in 2007, has really cemented its place online over the past couple of years. Back in December last year Tumblr became one of the top search terms on Google surpassing the keyword “blog,” which has always been one of the highest ranking terms on this search engine. Earlier this year it announced some pretty amazing numbers, the service now hosts over 100 million blogs and more than 44.6 billion posts. It has rapidly grown, considering that back in April 2012 it only had 50 million blogs.
Today Tumblr announced that it is adding advertisements to its mobile apps. Their first sponsored post in Tumblr Radar appeared almost an year ago. Tumblr’s fashion, entertainment and brand partners have created some amazing blogs. Now the service will bring over these posts to their mobile apps, after being “constantly amazed” by how well their partners’ creations fit in their dashboards. The execution of these ads is very simple and doesn’t affect user experience in any substantial way. Every now and then the ads will show up in a user’s mobile dashboard as he or she scrolls through it.
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Apr 21
They say that truth is stranger than fiction sometimes, and here we are with a throwback to 1993, a time when the SNES and Sega Megadrive have been duking it out big time for some time already (I still remember how the Megadrive’s version of Mortal Kombat was more popular because it came with red-colored blood, the way it should be instead of the watered down version on the SNES), and Ghostbusters as well as Ninja Turtles were all the rage. Well, AT&T proved to have a tinge of clairvoyance back then, where they ran a bunch of ads that you can see compiled in the video above which started with “Have you ever…”, where their vision of the future was continued with what seemed to be impossible at that point in time.
For instance, one of the ads showed off a couple in a car who were on the receiving end of turn-by-turn instructions simply because the guy did not stop to ask for directions. All right, so I am getting ahead of myself here, adding in a little bit of creative expounding on that ad, but back in 1993, it did show how GPS might be part of our future, too. What would you like to see 20 years from now as you peer into your crystal ball?
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