Feb 03
Apple is tightening the reins on iOS developers who utilize IDFA, putting the kibosh on apps that use the identifier without offering up advertisements. Such activity has been against its … Continue reading
Feb 03
Oh, bus stop ads: so often a target for vandals and bored commuters. But here’s a clever ad that invites you to deface it. Underneath an unassuming black-and-white ad for a museum exhibition is a whole world of hidden art.
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Feb 02
Super Bowl ads: U2 release (RED) Invisible track and Maserati pitches Ghibli
Posted in: Today's ChiliSuperband U2 released a free track in aid of (RED) and Maserati pitched a 1-percenter car at the 2014 Super Bowl today, as the keenly-observed commercials made their play during … Continue reading
Jan 27
Google patents system allowing advertisers to pay for taxi rides to advertised location
Posted in: Today's ChiliGoogle has filed for a patent on an interesting transportation system. The system would allow advertisers to offer free or lower cost taxi rides to their location. The service would … Continue reading
Jan 23
Following the update allowing advertisers to target users based on email addresses and user IDs, Twitter has rolled out another update that gives its advertisers better insight — Twitter Cards … Continue reading
Jan 22
Advertisers love to associate their products with the future, even if there’s nothing terribly futuristic about them. Like in this 1984 ad from a British company that was selling… soap.
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Jan 22
Apple’s latest iPad advert shows the tablet being used by helicopter rescue pilots, storm chasers, ice hockey coaches, musicians, Bollywood filmmakers, scuba divers, rock musicians and artists. But let’s face it, you’re using it on the toilet, aren’t you?
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Jan 21
One vintage ad warns women, "Don’t let them call you SKINNY!" while another promises that smoking cigarettes will keep one slender. If the task of morphing their bodies into the current desirable shape isn’t enough of a burden, women are also reminded that they stink.
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Jan 16
Here is a fun/terrible thing! If you search for "iTunes" in Google, the top sponsored result is something called itunes.download-new.com (don’t go there), which is nothing but a festering rat king of malware.
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Jan 16
What do you get when you apply the kindly, whimsical emoji you know and love to actual human faces? Nightmare fuel for days. But also very clever ad campaign that aims to stop sexual predators from occupying your child’s open tabs.
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