Yahoo kicks off its new global advertising campaign on Monday and part of that campaign is a new television ad.
The new commercial will run on all major broadcast channels plus cable networks like AMC, ESPN, USA, Comedy Central and Bravo.
Advertising has done wonders for Bing, which has already made up significant ground in the market [...]

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Most of the time, contextual advertising can be extremely beneficial in targeting online marketing campaigns. And then there’s these times. These contextual ads missed the mark by a mile and kept going, displaying ads that were wildly inappropriate, yet hilarious.

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17-year-old Georgia Jagger, daughter of rock legend Mick Jagger, has been spotted appearing topless in a new Hudson Jeans ad for Hudson Jeans.  As you might expect, there are those who take issue with the ad.
Mediabistro’s Agencyspy says this about exploiting young women in advertising:
“They’re also off limits when it comes to sexual references [...]

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Newspapers may be suffering, but Craigslist is booming.
The classified ad website is on pace to rake in over $100 million in revenue this year, according to a new study from Classified Intelligence Report, a publication of AIM Group.
That figure represents a 23 percent increase over 2008 Craigslist Revenue.  In fact, back in 2004 the site [...]

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Bing is pulling out all the stops when it comes to marketing, in its attempt to unseat Google as “King of All Search.”
Starting today, Microsoft will launch a television ad campaign promoting Bing.  Looks like that’s where a lot of the reported $100 million advertising budget must have gone.
The commercial touts Bing as a “Decision [...]

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I have no idea what the point of this commercial is.  It’s catching on like wildfire though, with more than 600,000 views on YouTube.
The only thing I can think of is that this is kind of like a car accident, where everyone just has to slow down and take a look.  On the other hand, [...]

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Burger King has finally gone off the deep end.
A new advertising campaign pairs Burger King up with SpongeBob and women with square butts.  It hasn’t exactly gone over well with parents and conservatives.
In the ad, the already creepy (IMHO) Burger King “King” sings “I Love Square Butts” surrounded by women shaking square butts, yes square [...]

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On Saturday, Google was the one getting slapped – on the wrist perhaps.
A federal judge dealt Google a blow in a trademark lawsuit surrounding AdWords. The court ruled that allowing a typed-in trademark to trigger a search ad is a “use in commerce.”
This ruling doesn’t mean anything at this point, the case still has a [...]

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No recession here – not on the internet anyway.
The Interactive Advertising Bureau reported yesteray that U.S. web advertising increased by 10.6 percent to $23.4 billion in 2008.  Not only that, but the $6.1 billion 4th quarter was the very first time web advertising exceeded $6 billion.
The rate of growth did drop, however, both annually and [...]

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