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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MTV knows viral marketing. In fact, some would say that nobody in traditional media does it better than MTV these days.
That’s just one of the many theories floating around the blogosphere this Friday afternoon supporting the idea that the whole Kanye West / Taylor Swift incident at the VMA’s was faked.
I admit, that thought [...]

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Laptop maker MSI has launched a new promotional campaign that is really raising eyebrows.  The company is advertising a new line of laptops called the X-Slim series.
The main selling point is their size…the X-Slim series laptops weigh less than 3 pounds and are less than one inch thick.
The promotional campaign features a YouTube [...]

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In September, Michael Jordan is set to be inducted the Basketball Hall of Fame.  Jordan is arguably the greatest basketball player to ever walk the planet.  Gatorade, one of Jordan’s many sponsors, is using this opportunity to create a social media windfall.
The sports drink company has just unveiled a new Facebook app that [...]

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