You didn’t need to do this, Jerry. Nobody needed to do this. There’s a new ad for Papa John’s pizza featuring Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, and it’s really really bad. Not so bad that it’s good, just really really …

Last month, Facebook began testing a new feature for advertisers. “Sponsored Results” allow marketers to purchase ads that appear within search results in Facebook’s search bar when a user types a certain keyword. Now, according to TechCrunch, Facebook is telling …

Facebook announced today that it is rolling out Facebook Studio Edge to agencies worldwide. Facebook Studio Edge is a set of learning courses designed to teach you how to get more out of your Facebook marketing. The company revealed the …

Google announced today that it is now offering advertisers its TrueView in-stream video ad format for mobile devices. TrueView ads are cost-per-view. Advertisers only pay when viewers actively select their videos or choose to continue watching them, once they’re first …

Facebook is finding more places to cram ads, in case you haven’t noticed. As the company’s stock suffers, Facebook needs to please investors, and that means, obviously, making more money. What better way to monetize 955 million active users than …

Twitter and Revstream announced today that Twitter has deployed Revstream’s revenue and billing management platform, integrated with Oracle’s E-Business Suite (r12). “Revstream’s platform enables Twitter to accelerate our billing cycle and improve our global revenue recognition process,” said Shanice Ma, …

Samsung has put out a new, nearly three-minute commercial for the Galaxy Note 10.1, featuring (and apparently directed by) James Franco, showing us how James Franco uses the device. Franco is presented as “the ultimate multitasker”. He engages in numerous …

Remember the Facebook of old? There were no Timelines, no FarmVille requests, not even a news feed. It was powered by wall posts after hazy nights of college binge drinking and coy inside jokes about random hookups with complete strangers. …

Facebook is starting to do a lot more things to cater to businesses, but is it becoming less user-friendly in the process? Now that the company is public, it’s going to have to keep investors happy, and that means making …

Soon, you may begin to see promoted posts from pages that your don’t even like – or your friends don’t even like. You may see a post from a brand that you’ve never even heard of. That’s because Facebook is …

This is just a funny one. Ironic, maybe – but undoubtedly deliberate in its execution. Last week, the search giant took out a couple of ads in some Canadian newspapers touting the benefit of buying ads on Google. “You know …

Google may be able to make more money off of political campaigns by making its ad targeting options better. The company announced today that it is enabling political campaigns to to target ads by Congressional district. The targeting feature will …

Last week, we showed you an a new iPhone 4S commercial featuring Martin Scorsese using Siri. While much tamer, we couldn’t help but be reminded of a certain uncomfortable scene in Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. Now, there’s a funnier take on …

Barely two months after we learned that General Motors was yanking nearly $10 million worth of Facebook ads, the man behind that decision is no longer working for the company. Joel Ewanick, GM’s marketing chief, has resigned his position effective …

Apple has put out a new iPhone/Siri commercial featuring famed director Martin Scorsese. This follows ads featuring Samuel L. Jackson, John Malkovich and Zooey Deschanel. Watching the new one, I can’t help but think about a classic scene from Scorsese’s …

comScore has released its Media Metrix rankings for the top 50 web properties in the U.S. in June. And here they are: Google sites saw 189 million visitors, compared to Yahoo’s 167 million, Microsoft’s 166 million, and Facebook’s 160 million. …

Online properties collect, analyze, and later use various types of your personal data. This is a fact of life, and most people accept it. If you think that you’re making moves on Facebook, Google, online retail sites, etc. that are …

In theory, advertising on Facebook allows marketers to reach one of the largest populations of potential buyers possible. Short of throwing up a banner ad on the moon, it’s unlikely that you’re going to find an outlet with more upside …

Although Nestle claims that they had no idea one of their recent Facebook uploads resembled an internet icon of pedophilia, it’s incredibly difficult to believe that nobody on the social media team had an “Oh sh*t” moment before posting. Nestle …

Facebook search, an admittedly tricky beast to tame, might be getting a bit more annoying for some users. That’s because the company is apparently testing a new feature called “Sponsored Results.” You would probably understand them to be ads in …

Twitter continues to expand the effectiveness of “promoted tweets” (also known as ads), and today they are announcing a pretty significant new feature for advertisers. As of today, brands can target Twitter users by location with their promoted tweets. For …