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When you’re a kid, all you need is a handful of backpacks and crumpled up coats to turn an empty playground into a soccer field. But to promote its new soccer shoes designed for street use, Nike worked with ad agency DoubleYou in Madrid, Spain, to come up with a better way to create an instant soccer field by harnessing the awesome power of lasers.

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It seems Facebook is still trying to learn how to monetize its search feature and figure out what works best, as the social network will be killing off sponsored results in search after less than a year of first being introduced. Facebook has decided to streamline its advertising efforts in order to make it a

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If you happen to find yourself taking an evening stroll past 15th Street and 9th Avenue in Manhattan tomorrow night, you’ll have the opportunity to full enjoy this clever Corona billboard. Playing off the fact the drink is usually served with a lime wedged in the bottle’s mouth, from the right angle, and on the right night, a crescent moon fills in for the missing fruit.

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That little ol’ company down in Mountain View is cooking up a new HTML5 design tool, according to a recent blog post by the Goog’s advertising arm, DoubleClick. Simply dubbed Google Web Designer, it’s ostensibly designed for creative professionals to create “engaging web content” and is integrated with DoubleClick Studio and AdMob right out of the gate. Its advertising roots aside however, it looks like anyone with the proper knowhow could use it to create a web page, similar to the much-neglected Google Sites. Of course, we won’t know much more about the tool until it launches, which is said to be “in the coming months.”

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Via: TechCrunch

Source: DoubleClick

This week Tumblr has begun to roll out sponsored posts beyond their mobile application environment. While back on the 22nd of April Tumblr brought advertisements to smartphones, users working with their desktop computers and browsing their Dashboard with a web browser will see the same thing. Because the Yahoo buyout of Tumblr was announced so very recently, it’s likely this move was scheduled well ahead of said acquisition.

As Tumblr states today, it’s been one year since the first sponsored post appeared on Tumblr Radar. This program has since garnered “more than 10 million likes and reblogs” in the months between there and here, and Tumblr is glad to usher in said content to their main console.

Posts that are sponsored will be appearing to regular users the same way a normal piece of content would. In an effort to keep Tumblr as visually pleasing and “cool” as it has been, sponsors create advertisements in the same manner a regular Tumblr user would. This means the same title, image, placement format and everything.

Though these posts will appear in user feeds the same way they would any other post, a shining dollar sign will appear in the upper right-hand corner. As this dollar sign is a light gray and meant to be unobtrusive, these posts will “simply blend in”, as Tumblr hopes they will.

Does this sound like a positive move to you? If you’ve been using the standard Tumblr app on your iPhone or Android device, have you noticed paid posts yet? They’ve been there for a few weeks!

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Tumblr Sponsored Posts hit web with dollar-sign icon is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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