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Gates and Seinfeld "I'm a PC"
This story Highlighted with a Mac.P.C. (Politically correct) Has never been Seinfeld's strong suit......."Microsoft is going to start a new $300 (mil? ed) advertising blitz to try to regain some of the street... Greyhound scraps ads after Canada bus beheading
"Greyhound has scrapped an ad campaign that extolled the relaxing upside of bus travel after one of its passengers was accused of beheading and cannibalizing another traveler The ad's tag line was "There's a reason you've never heard of 'bus rage.'"...McCain, too, will run Olympics ads
The McCain campaign has announced that it will also run ads during the television airing of the Olympic Games in Beijing, planning to run $6 million worth of TV commercials during NBC's broadcast."John McCain won't...$1.6 billion in food ads target children
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission wants the entertainment industry to take steps to have TV and movie characters tie in with more nutritional food choices. Kids are the target of more than $1.6 billion spent on... Islam subway ads cause stir in New York
An Islamic subway-ad campaign being promoted by a controversial Brooklyn imam is gaining attention. The imam on the promo video, Siraj Wahhaj, has been linked to the first bombing of The World Trade Center. " ... Blind war vet, 80, 'waited 20 hours' at hospital
Hope he won't be "the next Esmin Green". " AN 80-year-old war veteran was forced to wait nearly 20 hours overnight for treatment at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital emergency department, his wife claimed today. Edward Webster from Bedford was brought to SCGH emergency...Shock anti-binge drink ads launched
As Britain continues to ponder why its young people are the booziest in Europe and alcohol fuelled anti-social behaviour continues to make the headlines the government issues these new shocking ads. Shock...Yahoo hires Google to sell some online ads
So this is the big Yahoogle announcement? Yahoo is paying Google to help them sell some online ads? "Yahoo has hired Internet search leader Google to sell some online ads in hopes of boosting its profit.The...Ad firm refuses to run Tory attack ads on gas pumps
If the Conservatives had their way, motorists in southern Ontario would get a dose of aggressive anti-Liberal sentiment with every fill-up. The firm that was to place the ads, however, is refusing to run them.The ad... 5 Things Google Really Doesn't Want You to Know
Google can make you or break you and according to their own data, 7 out of 10 are broken. This isn't because Google doesn't work - it does. You'd better believe it, but like anything else, you have to... Uh Oh, Here Comes The Cellphone Spam
Please. God. No."If you thought spam on your computer was a bother, brace yourself for round two: spammers want to find you on your cellphone. Cellphones have become consumers’ most personal technological... Music and Fashion Brand Together for Hilfiger's 'TommyTV'
Branded entertainment is starting to get on my nerves. Musicians are hard up for cash as it is, but are they so desperate that they need to get in bed with the notoriously inauthentic Hilfiger, just to get their... Inconvienent Scams: For the Environmentally Naive
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCertainly Corporate Advertisement Scammers everywhere jumping on the environmental bandwagon to flog everything from Toilet Paper to Air fresheners, really begin to all... Swedish court rules against ads
I must say that ads sure do mess up a movie. An interesting, and perhaps groundbreaking, decision from the Swedish Supreme Court which ruled that inserting ads into a movie without the directors explicit permission is in violation of the copyright. The limitation with this... CBS Launches Local Widget Ad Network
The new news business model for 2008:1. Hyperlocal content2. Content widgets on social media sites3. Ad rev share with 3rd party partnersOnly thing is, it's an unproven model. Will it work?"Television stations owned...
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