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Yahoo’s Blueprint, PointRoll Dances on the iPhone, and Millennial Media Targets Everyone

by David | Sep 11, 2008 | advertising, Design, Digital Migration, google, new media, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers, Online Video

Packing up for the trip back down to LA, but couldn’t let these little tidbits from the CTIA pass without at least acknowledging them. 1.  Yahoo is trying to drum up some support for its Blueprint mobile platform.  They claim that it’s going to allow...

NBC Throws Audience Measurement Methodologies at Olympics to See What Sticks

by David | Jul 7, 2008 | adsense clickfraud, advertising, Digital Migration, google, journalism, new media, Newspapers, Online Video, television

Meanwhile, Google whistles nervously, hoping nobody thinks to raise the issue of AdSense clickfraud again… There’s a yawning gulf in New Media. It stretches from the pittance that most media creators get for their ad space to the other side, where the...

It Was Not Always Like This: When Advertising Changed

by The Wordyeti | Feb 24, 2006 | advertising, journalism

I forgot to include this quote about when and especially WHY it was that companies had to start manipulating us all through advertising, rather than just trusting that we would go out and figure out which products were better, and buy them. It seems so strange in our...
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