Category Archives: advertising

Virgin Atlantic’s great ad

I saw this ad for Virgin Atlantic on Manuel Montilla’s blog the other day and i haven’t stopped laughing since (ok slight exaggeration) – see what you think

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Google launch video ads (kinda)

Good friend Marshall Kirkpatrick broke the news yesterday that Google were going to start offering video ads to people publishing ads using Google’s Adsense program. I use Adsense to publish the few ads that are on this site. The official … Continue reading

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Ad supported Office in the works?

I see Microsoft are following Google into the Advertising business with their announced purchase of aQuantive for $6bn. Advertising definitely seems to be where the money is at right now – as Michael Arrington put it earlier on TechCrunch: Google … Continue reading

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Dropping Feedburner feed ads

I decided to try adding ads to my RSS feed a few months back to see how the process worked and if it is a viable revenue generator. The ads were inserted into my RSS feed by the FeedBurner Ad … Continue reading

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We have lost faith in advertising (if we ever had any)

We have, by and large, stopped believing in advertising. Why is that? It is because we are sick of being lied to by advertisers. Shampoos which ‘nourish’ our hair? Now with added ‘citrus technology’? Hair is composed of dead cells. … Continue reading

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