Yahoo Mail Removes In-Mail Ads
	Until now, messages sent from a Yahoo Mail account automatically included a tagline advertisement placed at the end of the email which promoted certain Yahoo services or functions. Lots of people said these ads were extremely annoying while a few others considered them quite useful. Well, the Sunnyvale-based company has decided to remove the advertisements and leave the messages as clean as the users want, Ryan K., Community Manager, Yahoo ... [read more >>]
	19 May 2008, 02:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Admits Yahoo's Dominance, Prepares New YouTube Ads
	The Mountain View-based company Google is looking to get more money from YouTube, the online video sharing service they bought in October 2006 for $1.65 billion. After a series of tests, Google is now working on a new type of advertisements to be displayed on YouTube, other than the ones before and after the clips, News.com ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 04:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Create Your Own Gmail Art Ad
	More often than not, an ad pops out from the rest and just gets you watching it over and over again, until you finally get all of the details and manage to wrap your head around it. Naturally, being one of the biggest companies in the world and having more fans than you can count might bring you good advertising, with even better concepts coming in from all around. I doubt the Russian ad for Gmail will be topped pretty soon. I ... [read more >>]
	28 February 2008, 13:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New iPhone Commercials: FaceBook and... Cars
	Apple, the company launching the most wanted mobile phone ever developed, has recently released not one, but two new iPhone commercials (in the typical iPhone spirit), showing off ... [read more >>]
	06 February 2008, 07:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Famous Websites Serving Windows Infections
	In case a virus avalanche is spotted on the web, you’re usually advised to avoid visiting suspicious websites that may attempt to deploy the infection on your computer and browse only legitimate and known-to-be-clean pages. But today, it is proved once again that this security measure may not be as useful as it sounds. Several websites, including the famous social network service MySpace, have been discovered as serving malware t ... [read more >>]
	04 January 2008, 07:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Warning! Google AdSense Adverts Infected with Trojan Horse!
	Security company BitDefender has found what seems to be the most dangerous attack these days: a Trojan horse which attempts to replace the adverts displayed by Google’s AdSense with the commercials provided by another company. The Trojan, identified by BitDefender as Trojan.Qhost.WU, attempts to modify the Windows HOSTS file, in order to show ads from another server. The entire redirect process is done pretty simple: the infectio ... [read more >>]
	19 December 2007, 07:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Oh, Joy: Paris Hilton Is Naked Again...
	Why? I mean, really, why? Why does Paris Hilton believe that when all hope fades (which means, whenever she's not getting enough media attention as she believes she deserves) the wise thing to do is to burn a naked image of herself into our unsuspecting retinas – again? Why do we have to live in a world in which some people actually think Paris is sexy? Whoever told Paris that the world is dying to see her naked is either deluded or h ... [read more >>]
	12 December 2007, 06:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Eva Mendes Says NO to Fur, YES to Complete Nudity. Amen!
	The people at PETA must definitely be among the happiest on the planet. I mean, think of all the celebrities they had a chance to work with – and when I say "work" I actually mean see them up close, stark naked. I'm sure it must be interesting to be in close proximity to Pammy's boobies – not to mention to see Alicia Silverstone emerge naked from a pool, or watch Dita von Teese teach us the "ABC" in ... [read more >>]
	07 December 2007, 03:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The NHL Website Hacked!
	Last week several security experts talked about a new trend in online hacking as the attackers are now aiming to inject a malicious code into the adverts published on famous websites in order to infect the visitors. Roger Thompson of Exploit Prevention Labs wrote that the NHL and the MLB websites were hacked as the attackers injected some sort of code which aims to infect the users. This is how the infection works: once you visit ... [read more >>]
	16 November 2007, 06:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google with a Little Work Ethics
	The latest fashion for Google now is to try and appear a little more professional in the "not greedy for clicks on ads" meaning of the word. It is the right way to go and it is a surprising move for a company that generates an astounding amount of its revenue from the clicks they draw from those interested. What they did was to reduce greatly the area in which a click on an ad will direct you to the respective site, ... [read more >>]
	14 November 2007, 02:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Fails with YouTube Ads
	The Digital Media Owners Image Survey that was conveyed by the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) turned back some ugly numbers for Google regarding the overall experience of UK agencies dealing with digital media owners, numbers that were better kept hidden from the Mountain View giant. Much to its surprise, only 17% of the respondents mentioned that dealing with YouTube was a beneficial experience for them, lead ... [read more >>]
	06 November 2007, 05:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Application That Spies Your Conversation
	Pudding Media is a Californian company which plans to release a revolutionary online phone calls technology which would allow consumers to communicate with ease. Nothing impressive so far but read this: the technology would analyze your conversation and will display adverts based on the things you talked about. Obviously, the privacy concerns were already raised because the application will entirely analyze the conversation in or ... [read more >>]
	25 September 2007, 06:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Finally, Google Rolls Out Gadget Ads
	A long time ago, it was reported that Google was testing a new format of adverts distributed in its own content network that might be based on gadgets and that appeared only on a limited number of websites. At that time, it was quite obvious that Google tested the Gadget Ads which can implement almost any format of multimedia content such as videos, photos and sounds. Today, the Mountain View super giant officially releases the G ... [read more >>]
	19 September 2007, 14:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Get Thousands of Visitors for Your Blog
	Spottt is a technology designed by the folks from AdBrite, a well-known advertising company, which can help you attract thousands of visitors for your blog with minimum actions. The solution is quite similar with a link exchange technology but it is well improved and able to attract more visitors than you expect. Let me describe the entire proced ... [read more >>]
	19 September 2007, 04:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Videos to Appear Inside Google Search
	Google plans a new move for its advertising platforms that would help the registered advertisers reach more users and attract new clients. If until now the Mountain View company placed only text adverts on the SERP, it seems like the things are changing. Slowly, but sure. Following the recent implementation of the adverts into the YouTube clips, Google seems to be prepared to insert photo/video commercials straight of the SERP, o ... [read more >>]
	10 September 2007, 14:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo and Its Secret Artifact to Defeat Google
	The giant portal Yahoo recently announced that it agreed to buy BlueLithium, an advertising company that would surely represent a new strike in the battle with Google. The Sunnyvale giant will pay 'only' $300 million in cash for a company that recorded 145 million unique visitors every month and that was the fifth largest ad network in the US and second largest in the UK, as comScore sustained. BlueLithium joins the group of Yaho ... [read more >>]
	05 September 2007, 03:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Now You Can Make Money with Your Blog. For Real!
	The folks working at Blogger finally implemented a long awaited feature that brings inline advertisements placed between the blog posts. Until now, the Blogger technology allowed the blog owners to place ads only on the main page without offering the possibility to insert adverts between the posts. The new option works just like the old AdSense configuration screen, enabling you to choose the format of the ad, the color and the d ... [read more >>]
	22 August 2007, 04:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Keira and Courtney Go Naked for Chanel
	The latest ad for Coco Mademoiselle from Chanel is here and, oh, boy, are we happy or are we happy about it? If you ask me, I should say that we're pretty happy about it (see the humor in this? - ninja!), especially since British actress Keira Knightley is pretty much naked underneath that black bowler hat and white shirt, carelessly (or not so much) thrown to hide her lady parts... Let's not get too excited over this and s ... [read more >>]
	13 August 2007, 09:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Doesn't Care About Competition
	Google acquired DoubleClick. Google accused for antitrust law violation. Google investigated by the regulators. Google advertises DoubleClick with competitors' names as keywords. This is, in short, the entire story so far. Now, let's explain it a little bit. The Mountain View company acquired DoubleClick for $3.1 billion because it represents an advertising firm that is able to support the Google efforts to improve its ... [read more >>]
	13 August 2007, 05:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

In Photoshop We Trust
	Thanks to the almighty and ever-present paparazzi and their ceaseless work (not to mention the countless hours spent hounding and stalking celebs), we know by now that we're never to believe what we see in magazines. Celebrities are also humans (duh!) and therefore, their bodies are also subject to the little pesky little things that seem to make our lives unbearable at times: wrinkles, cellulite, stretch marks, a couple of extra poun ... [read more >>]
	11 August 2007, 04:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Works On Its Products, New Downtimes Announced
	Google doesn't sleep. Never! Because it really needs to stay focused onto its products, improve them and sometimes repair the broken things discovered by its users. Every once in a while, it announces maintenance periods that are especially created to fix the recently discovered problems and check if all the things are working properly. This month's system maintenance is scheduled for Saturday, August 11th, from 10 a.m. ... [read more >>]
	09 August 2007, 04:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Finally Reached The Newspapers
	What looked like a simple Google plan is now becoming reality because the Mountain View company finally expanded AdWords into the offline media by placing adverts into US newspapers. First of all, this new program is extremely useful for a lot of advertisers because – according to a study conducted by Scarborough Research – 3 out of 4 adults are reading a daily or a Sunday newspaper. Traditional media is attractive for many of us ... [read more >>]
	19 July 2007, 04:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Ad: You Stupid!
	Google's advertising platform AdSense is one of the most attractive solutions on the market because it brings money to webmasters after they publish the ads on their pages. Because of this, numerous consumers are displaying the adverts on a considerable number of websites. The interesting fact is that Google's adverts are displayed depending on the content of a certain page and especially to some keywords. This way, you ... [read more >>]
	12 July 2007, 06:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube – Ad-Based Service! Not Freeware Anymore!
	A new type of adverts was discovered on YouTube but it was probably only a test since it was already removed from the clips. Basically, the new adverts are very similar to the annoying ones displayed on the classic TV, and which are broadcast over the movies. As InsideGoogle reports, the videos published on YouTube now have two gold parts placed on the progress bar that reveal the beginning and the end of the adverts. However, pl ... [read more >>]
	06 July 2007, 04:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google's Engagements Not Fulfilled
	Although the parent company Google announces improvements for AdWords every once in a while, it seems that some of them are never included in the solution. Why am I saying this? Because it's been a while since the Mountain View company announced an important modification for AdWords that allowed the users to click only on the link of the adverts and not on the entire rectangle that surrounded the ad. As Philipp Lenssen from ... [read more >>]
	02 July 2007, 03:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Enrique Iglesias Likes to Flirt with Men
	This is most likely a commercial stunt meant to bring Enrique and his latest album into the spotlight. Well, it surely works, I'm certainly paying attention, not so much to the album, as rather to the part where he flirts with men, since the singer himself is the one who went to the press about it. To quote the Latino star himself, he likes to "serenade the men just as much as women" while performing on stage. L ... [read more >>]
	22 June 2007, 09:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Offers $400 in Credits To Advertisers
	Google finally introduced the Audio Ads to more than a half of the US advertisers in a move meant to expand the classic form of online advertising. Back in May, the Mountain View company debuted the audio ads in beta version, being available only to a limited number of advertisers. Today, the search giant did another important step for the expansion of the advertising platforms into the offline media, planning to enable all the U ... [read more >>]
	05 June 2007, 15:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google's Audio Ads Available for Everybody!
	Google's Audio Ads, the latest Google attempt to expand the advertising platform, becomes available to all the AdWords members. According to Search Engine Roundtable, numerous advertisers are able to use a new function implemented into the AdWords interface, codenamed Audio Ads. The feature is displayed under a browsing tab and can help you obtain improved results through Google's advertising platform. Although the Mountain View ... [read more >>]
	15 May 2007, 15:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google's First Step Towards Video Advertising
	Google introduced Ad Creation Marketplace, a special advertising tool that helps publishers create their own video ads even if they lack a powerful experience in video creation. "The Ad Creation Marketplace is a resource for advertisers who are interested in running video ads but don't have experience creating video ads and want customized help from a professional," the company introduces the new tool. Basically, A ... [read more >>]
	10 May 2007, 05:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube Will Display Pre-Clip Adverts
	YouTube, the online video sharing service recently acquired by Google, will display pre-clip adverts that will allow companies to place commercials just before certain videos published on YouTube. According to Computing, Patrick Walker, European head of video partnerships at Google, sustained the video service will soon include adverts that will allow the search giant to share the revenue with the broadcasters of the clip. The co ... [read more >>]
	23 April 2007, 05:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Paris Also Has a Heart. And It Bleeds When Broken.
	Say what you will about Paris Hilton but she too is just human like the rest of us. Well, not quite like the rest of us because she happens to be filthy rich and with no sense of shame and of the ridicule whatsoever, but still, you can see the resemblance, can't you? Assuming that I haven't offended you by saying that Paris is like you (and me), let's learn more about our all-time favorite heiress. Apparently, t ... [read more >>]
	05 April 2007, 10:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Paris Is Pissed that Tinkerbell Is More Famous than Her
	If Paris Hilton were to send cease-and-desist letters to anyone who ever picked on her (for a number of reasons), there would be no fun in this world any more. Can you imagine it? A place where no one would be allowed to crack a couple of jokes on Paris' expense, where she would be, like, a star and a really talented artist, for the simple reason that no one could contradict her. Yes, indeed, what a bore... Anyway, you mi ... [read more >>]
	03 April 2007, 09:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Officially Announced TV Ad Campaign
	Google’s advertising platforms are very popular on the entire Internet world because the search giant owns an impressive number of registered members. Today, the company confirmed another big step into the evolution of their advertising platform by announcing an innovative TV advertising campaign for the advertisers registered with Google. “With Google TV ads, the entire process is automated – from planning the campaign to upl ... [read more >>]
	03 April 2007, 08:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google: Testers Needed
	Google started in December a beta session for the Audio Ads, allowing the company to distribute audio adverts of numerous AdWords publishers. Although the testing stages were really successful, the search giant sustained today that Google is looking for more beta testers for the audio ads. “The beta has been going well and, in fact, the Audio Ads Team is looking for more testers. In terms of feedback, the Audio Ads team has heard ... [read more >>]
	14 March 2007, 03:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

iPhone Ad on the 5th Avenue Store
	As things are going at this time, we'll be sick and tired of Apple's new phone before they even launch the controversial gadget. There is news saying workers placed yesterday a large ad on the glass cube above the Apple's 5th Avenue retail store in New York City. That was the first reporting of this kind and apparently, the ad was removed later the same day. It is not known whether the ad was removed for good o ... [read more >>]
	13 March 2007, 08:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Six New UK Ads
	Apple has renewed its line of ads, with six UK additions, three of which completely new. The ads are called Naughty Step, Magic, Out of the Box, Court, Accident and Network and they raise the number of UK 'Get a Mac' ads to twelve (the previous six are titled Office at Home, Restarting, Virus, Trust Mac, Tentacle and Pie Chart). I've just watched ... [read more >>]
	13 March 2007, 05:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nokia Announces Advertising Solution
	Nokia recently announced two mobile advertising services. Nokia Ad Service which is a fully managed service for advertisers to conduct targeted advertising on mobile services and applications and Nokia Advertising Connector, a private label service for third party Publishers ... [read more >>]
	06 March 2007, 03:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Tests Flash YouTube Adverts
	Although the company sustained it would never advertise its products on other websites than Google, I recently discovered multiple ads created by the Gmail team and posted on the YouTube video service, also owned by Google. The adverts were made by the company’s employees and were based on some puppet action but they are really funny and amazing. Today, another interesting type of Google advert was discovered by several bloggers but it see ... [read more >>]
	02 March 2007, 08:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Mac Ad Is Too Much for Many
	Apparently, the American way of advertising is nowhere near the European or Asian way. What makes the US laugh is offensive to other peoples, specifically the Japanese and the British. Apple's attempt to translate and adapt the ads for European and Asian audiences seems to have failed. Furthermore, it's doing the Cupertino-based company more damage than good. About two weeks ago, news reported a spectacular fall ... [read more >>]
	02 March 2007, 05:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia