Tag: Ads

Use Your Facebook Data to Smear Yourself with a Negative Political Ad (It’s Fun, I Promise)
There's a new project out from PBS NewsHour that allows anyone to create political ads for themselves with Facebook data. It's called...
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Facebook Tests New, More Interesting Homepages for Logged Out Users
Earlier this year, Facebook began showing users ads when they logout on desktop....
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Leaked Windows 8 Ads Focus On Tablets And Apps
The countdown to Windows 8 continues as the Microsoft faithful wait for the release of the new operating system on October 26. Microsoft has been playing it rather low key in the f...
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Sesame Street Wants Obama Campaign to Take Down Big Bird Ad
Poor Big Bird. Nobody wants to be inserted into a campaign as rough as the one currently playing out for President of the United States, and I can imagine that the eight-foot tall...
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Facebook’s Sponsored Stories Lawsuit Gets New Settlement
Facebook is making another attempt to bring an end to a lawsuit over their advertising practices - mainly their Sponsored Stories ads. This time, after having a settlement rejecte...
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Facebook to Advertisers: Users Don’t Have to Click for It to Pay Off
"It is the delivery of the marketing message to the right consumer, not the click, that creates real value for brand advertisers." And with that, Facebook has a new strategy whe...
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Twitter Surveys, Coming to a Stream Near You
In an effort to increase the tools available to marketers, Twitter is unveiling a new servi...
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An Accurate Description of Every Infomercial You’ll Ever See [VIDEO]
Anyone who has ever been burdened by insomnia knows that most infomercials follow a certain script - no matter what the product is that they're trying to sell. It's a pretty basic...
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Samuel L. Jackson’s Obama Ad “Wake The F*ck Up” Hits YouTube
We knew it was coming, and today it hit the YouTubes. We're talking of course...
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Facebook Is Tracking What You Buy to Provide Marketers Better Ad Analytics
Facebook's already tenuous relationship with its users over privacy and the sharing of personal information has a new wrinkle, as it looks like Facebook has waded into the retail s...
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Facebook Offers Gets Global Update
Facebook offers, the program that allows businesses to promote special offers to their Facebook fans, was first mentioned as a pilot program at fMC in February. A few months later...
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Samsung Once Again Goes After Apple Fanboys in a New Ad
Samsung has never been one to shy away from directly making fun of Apple and their fans in product advertisements. See exhibit A,...
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Facebook Page Admins Can Now Promote Posts on Mobile
Good news, page mangers who want their posts to reach the maximum amount of people: Facebook has just updated its free...
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Real Estate Site Zillow Runs Its First-Ever TV Ad
Online real estate marketplace Zillow officially launched in 2006, and in the past six years has grown to include data on over 100 million houses across the U.S. In 2011, the comp...
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You’ve Never Loved Anything in Your Life More Than This Lady Loves Her Bacon Sundae
I'm not surprised that a sweet and savory explosion of vanilla ice cream, chocolate, caramel, and bacon is pretty good. But I am surprised that there's a human on the planet that...
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