Archive for the 'advertising' Category
Auto makers reducing spending and switching to digital
0 Comments Published by admin July 29th, 2008 in Advertising 2.0, advertising.With gas prices through the roof and sales of gas guzzlers in free fall it really shouldnt come as a surprise that the big auto makers are readjusting plans and making changes. Besides blue-collar layoffs and office cut-backs, it seems that even the folks on Madison avenue may also have to worry a bit as [...]
UK Internet ad revenue more than TV revenue in ‘09
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello April 19th, 2008 in Advertising 2.0, ad systems, advertising.This week Ad Age published an interesting article on the growth of Internet ad spending in the UK. Despite shrinking ad budgets across other sectors, the article reports that online ad budgets grew 38% to $5.6 billion in 2007. They are expected to add another 30% this year for total ad budgets around $7.28 billion. [...]
Battlestar Galactica Razor 3 Weeks Early. Thanks NBC.
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello November 2nd, 2007 in BitTorrent, Groups Opposing the MPAA, Online TV, TV, Torrents, advertising.If your not watching the geek greatness that is Battlestar Galactica then you are missing one of the greatest male soap operas on TV. Yesterday, while perusing my favorite Bittorent sites to get caught-up on the latest episodes of Avatar, Weeds and Dexter, I saw an entry for Battlestar Galactica Razor. “This couldnt be the [...]
Pandora and the Future of Advertising
1 Comment Published by Siddiq Bello October 6th, 2007 in Advertising 2.0, Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious, Pandora, advertising, great ideas.This morning while listening to my Feist radio station on Pandora something unusual caught my eye. Like everyone else, I’m fairly ad-blind and tend to ignore everything on the right edge of the screen but for some reason this ad caught my attention. It could have been the sultry looking brunette, but I like [...]
Playing with Joost Ads and Channels
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello May 8th, 2007 in ad serving, ad systems, advertising, joost.Today I discovered something really interesting on Joost, ad’s. Thats right apparently they are starting to play with interesting ads on the service. From the initial ads that have been served to me the good folks at Joost seem to be toying with a few different models. So far I’ve seen three different types of [...]
