Myhusbandneedsajob – One Scary Thought about The Matter

March 15th, 2009 · 9:10 pm  →  Advertising Articles Branding & Image

I was reading this CNN article of a woman whose husband has been searching for a new job for months. A quote that struck me instantly: Then an idea came to her: Why not make him stand out by starting a Web site devoted to helping him find a job? She used her tax refund [...]

Affiliate Sign-ups: The Difference Between CPA and Rev Share

March 15th, 2009 · 7:16 pm  →  Advertising Articles Uncategorized

When you sign up with an affiliate, they soemtimes offer contracts based on how much money you would want to make off of their service. If services are subscribing to something continually or constantly extending a contract ( such as casino gambling, magazines, adult websites etc. ), they will give you one of two options: [...]

The McDonalds Filet-O-Fish Commercial Video and Creators

March 15th, 2009 · 5:42 am  →  Advertising Articles Big Time Advertising Branding & Image

Do not tell me that you haven’t been affected by this video. The advertising agency Arnold has done its job; it created a huge buzz with the whole campaign, and people are loving it! Even more proof of this ad’s success, there are a bunch of people who are reacting negatively to the ad. People [...]

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg on Oprah Video and Reactions

March 15th, 2009 · 5:32 am  →  Web & Industry News

Mark Zuckerberg came on the Oprah Show this week. He was still shy, but he was a lot better in this interview than in other interviews. Wow, look at how much media money is in that room. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video CNN also published a story that [...]

Belisi Tie $1 Scam

March 2nd, 2009 · 3:25 am  →  Advertising Reviews

If you see an advertisement on the internet, don’t buy it. They give you four ties for the price of one dollar, but don’t tell you that. You have to give them your credit card. The S&H is 14.95 The trial is fourteen days, whereby if you don’t end the trial, they will bill you [...]

Facebook Ads ( Do They Suck? )

February 26th, 2009 · 6:56 am  →  Advertising Articles

There use to be a time when Facebook developed a decent adspace product called Facebook Flyers. It was a really cheap impression-based function to showcase anything you wanted within your “college” area. For $5, you received 10,000 impressions in your college, and could add other colleges to the mix as well. Here is a non-html [...]

Advertising Blunder of The Week

December 25th, 2008 · 4:37 pm  →  Advertising Articles

I was checking out Telegraph and was sifting through their daily images, and they posted a Chinese man carrying a huge appliance on his back in a rural area . Logically, you can tel this guy is not living it up in the mainland. But to the right of this great photo ( because this [...]

Obama Spending Plenty of Ads; McCain Not as Much.

October 21st, 2008 · 10:16 pm  →  Advertising Articles Big Time Advertising Media & Journalism

Obama is spending a lot of money on his campaign ads. A lot of his ads are dedicated to the issues and how to solve them, while McCain has focused his advertising to dismiss Obama’s answers. Read more here.

Public Relations May Not Always Be Good

October 14th, 2008 · 6:00 pm  →  Advertising Articles Branding & Image

An very nice little tidbit by Andrew Goodman on Traffick about how PR can hurt your business. He pokes fun at the quote made by Brandon Flowers of The Killers on the band would soon be bigger than U2. Here is the interview of the Killers where the controversy took place. The quote is tamer [...]

Blog Review: The Corante

October 1st, 2008 · 6:42 pm  →  Media & Journalism

I had checked out an article on Google about Reuters and Guardian’s editor systems ( ie: Just hwo they worked with getting content, creating specialized features etc. ), and had found the article above. This article talked about Geert Linnebank’s speech at a conference last year. Linnebank, a senior advisor to CEO at Reuters, had [...]