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We already know that Final Fantasy XIII is set to be launched in Japan on December 17 in what is sure to be one of the biggest and most lavish releases of a JRPG ever. The game will only come on the PlayStation 3 at that date and Square Enix has not said when the game will arrive on Western markets, where it will be ... |
29 October 2009
14:41 GMT |
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No less than four new Windows 7 video advertisements are now available, and exclusively for your “viewing pleasure” I integrated them all at the bottom of this article. Yes, “viewing pleasure” because, although the general message of the ads is designed to spread the love for Windows 7, viewer... |
6 October 2009
08:59 GMT |
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Apple has started airing three new iPhone commercials emphasizing that its App Store currently holds some 75,000 applications for iPhone and iPod touch. The ads continue Apple’s manner of marketing the iPhone as a universal tool that comes in handy in just about any situation. Also worth noting is that Apple&r... |
22 September 2009
10:20 GMT |
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Sony has long struggled to actually position the PlayStation 3 and its overall home console business in a way that truly connected to gamers. Initially, the PS3 was said to be a “gamer's console,” offering power and exclusive titles.Then, it all became a “multimedia center,” which focused... |
28 August 2009
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Despite regulation aimed at preventing this, the number of alcohol commercials promoting beer and spirits still air at times when most teenagers are watching TV, a new study by experts at the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth, and the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) has found. In other words, teena... |
21 August 2009
20:31 GMT |
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Xbox Live is one of the most important services to Microsoft these days, as it is a major feature for its Xbox 360 platform and generates a lot of profit, thanks to the subscribers that pay almost $50 a year in order to have a Gold membership and enjoy the privileges of playing multiplayer games and other things. Bu... |
2 July 2009
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may soon receive control powers over the multi-million-dollar tobacco industry, after proposed legislation that would allow the agency to do just that has passed a US Senate panel on Wednesday. The proposal was already passed by the House of Representatives in April, more alo... |
22 May 2009
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The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced yesterday that low-intensity and low-key anti-smoking public service announcements (PSA) were more likely to incite an effect in the brains of smokers than their more flashy or shocking versions. A new study also reveals that different brain areas are activated by ... |
16 May 2009
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Google has conducted a survey aiming to find new mobile search patterns with Apple's iPhone and other smartphones, like those running Android. The study has proven to be a success, a report over at MediaPost News' Online Media Daily says, showing searchers on high-end devices like the iPhone are becoming mo... |
12 May 2009
04:34 GMT |
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As reported earlier today, Apple has posted as many as four new Get a Mac ads, featuring the same two characters we've grown to love with the release of every new commercial. One of the ads in particular takes on Microsoft's disclaimers. By viewing it in HD, you can actually read the legal text, allowing yo... |
21 April 2009
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Apple has posted new ads on the iPhone section of its website, following the same "there's an app for just about anything" trend. The ads ("Student," "Office," and "Itchy") emphasize the usefulness of the iPhone 3G and its ability to run just about any sort of app. The spots are available to watch in several siz... |
8 April 2009
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Sony Online Entertainment has stated that Free Realms, the MMO set to be free while offering casual players and families a medium in which they can enjoy a variety of activities, has entered the closed beta stage, meaning that, for the first time, players from outside the company can directly experience the content o... |
2 March 2009
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Following an ample scandal that started a few weeks ago, Chinese authorities have recently announced that they will ban fake medical experts and actors from performing the roles of physicians on TV from now on, in hopes of getting their inferior-quality medications sold to the general public. An Internet-led investig... |
18 February 2009
05:31 GMT |
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It's common knowledge that animated ads are there for your entertainment, and that everyone would rather see relevant content about products they are looking for rather than unrelated commercials. Now, advertising companies are refining a system that will make customizable ads a reality, via the use of sophistic... |
31 January 2009
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Once considered to be a near “sacred” spot, the first page of the famous New York Times newspaper is now opened to commercial ads, despite the fact that it did without them for decades. This concession, which the company management made in front of the economic downturn, goes on to prove the effects that ... |
6 January 2009
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Friends of the Earth Canada, the Polaris Institute, the Council of Canadians, Wellington Water Watchers and Ecojustice are the organizations that filed a misleading ad warning against international corporation Nestle, which, they say, distorted the truth in the commercials on bottled water. The largest food company i... |
2 December 2008
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Last week we reported about a quite interesting screenshot of the hit racing game Burnout Paradise which featured an ad for United States Presidential Candidate Barrack Obama. Although the presence of ads in videogames is nothing new, with companies being more and more fond of this kind of practice, a political ad is... |
14 October 2008
19:01 GMT |
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Fallout 3 is going to be a very big game. The latest title developed by the company that brought you The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Bethesda, promises a gaming experience of over 100 hours, with the addition of DLC (Downloadable Content) packs after the initial launch. Set to occur in a post apocalyptic future where... |
10 October 2008
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You probably keep hearing that the video game market will soon become the best place for advertising and, if you were having any doubts about it, Sony is planning to prove us right by announcing a deal for Europe and North America with Double Fusion. Following this agreement, your PS3 will become the best place for a... |
11 July 2008
02:31 GMT |
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The best football management game franchise in the world, Football Manager, has entered a partnership with IGA to bring bunches of ads to our screens in the forthcoming Football Manager titles - and the first to receive this "red carpet treatment" will be Football Manager Live, the game every football manager fan alr... |
29 May 2008
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Following the release of the record-breaking Rockstar game Grand Theft Auto IV, many people have started to either praise or to accuse GTA for all sorts of things - from the increase in violence to the lower income in cinema ticket sales. The latest accusation (if we can call it that) is about the in-game advertising... |
15 May 2008
15:06 GMT |
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Fox News is slowly turning into a bigger, meaner Jack Thompson, with only one huge difference: the network's anti-gaming campaign does seem to have an impact on the gaming world and the public opinion. Which is both scary and unfair since, this time, there is absolutely no proof (not even some mad scientist paid... |
22 April 2008
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After having monetized on its advertising programs for so long and taking the cash while only offering a platform and a few choices to advertisers, Google is now finally sharing with the world what only few have been able to test since January: demographic targeted ads. The feature was announced with little buzz, but... |
24 March 2008
15:16 GMT |
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Spam has followed the natural evolution course of advertising. First designed only for computers, now, as the mobile ads continue to increase in importance, the unwanted messages have ported to the handheld devices in a flash. What better place to target with such an attack than the biggest mobile communications mark... |
24 March 2008
06:58 GMT |
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If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, every morning as of last week must have stung your ear with something that seemed off somehow, but you couldn't quite figure out what it was. How about Yahoo! ads on the radio, that doesn't really sound right for an Internet company, or at least it leaves listen... |
21 March 2008
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Google was right to go strongly for online advertising, as the data from the Interactive Advertising Bureau shows. 2007 was the first time ever when the advertising revenue exceeded $21 billion, but that is nothing out of the ordinary. It was only natural for that to happen, seeing that the annual growth was always i... |
26 February 2008
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Google's biggest problem, advertising wise, is that the very expensive YouTube, for which it paid $1.65 billion, does not pay off. Plain and simple, almost 70 percent of the people and companies that chose to advertise on the world's biggest video sharing service said that they were not happy about the res... |
22 February 2008
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Google is starting to come around to its old self after the emotional week following the Microsoft bid to take over Yahoo! It stirred some waves when it offered to lend a helping hand and then it sat back and watched how things unraveled. Back to the drawing board of moneymaking schemes now, and a New York Times bit ... |
15 February 2008
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The push into the mobile market by Internet giant Google can already be felt. After allocating a good amount of time to the developing of iPhone specific options and tweaks, the team responsible can now sit back and reap what it has sown. The success recorded is stunning: Apple's smart phone's users are sea... |
15 February 2008
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Google has its mind set to be the reigning champ of advertising. Fair and square, it is probably going to become that, now that the DoubleClick deal is about to go through, and with the newspaper ad sales that it is eyeing, it might break the barrier that held the Mountain View-based company in check this far.The Int... |
30 January 2008
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The rumor that "floated" around a while ago about the possibility that Google might introduce floating ads has seen its end today, as an official Google AdSense representative said that it would never happen. The discussion was interesting to follow, the two parts arguing whether the money-making scheme would prevail... |
24 January 2008
07:11 GMT |
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The Google Groups Forum are always the best place to gather interesting pieces of information about the product you're using in case it's designed by the Mountain View based company. Many people have found relief and answers to their problems there and that's to say Google is currently trying to improv... |
17 January 2008
06:53 GMT |
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The repetitive way that Google ads run on the side of the search result, all link and description plus sites, is dull and bores many to hell and back. That's why a German car rental client of the BannerBlog decided to ask for something different, something to make the person searching now at a glance what their ... |
11 January 2008
08:31 GMT |
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The announcement that Yahoo! and Adobe would be teaming up to test out a new ad system inside PDF documents was vastly looked over back in November when it was announced. Not because it did not have potential, but rather because it was just another way of feeding ads to the Internet users and that's what they ha... |
8 January 2008
16:26 GMT |
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Google Print Ads is trying to get the online clients to buy offline advertising space in newspapers, according to the "Sunday Times" newspaper. This is following the footsteps of the same service being available in the United States where it is said to have somewhere around 600 titles.Not too shabby, The DoubleClick ... |
3 January 2008
06:56 GMT |
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If you bought the space and round of ads, you just got to run with it, but if you deem them as having adult content that's a totally different story. You might have the right to be silent and banned if you take the courageous step.This was learned firsthand by the US lingerie company Pampered Passions, who foun... |
28 December 2007
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This year, Google got an early and unexpected holiday gift from Microsoft. Whether it was the Christmas spirit or merely a glitch in the Redmond company's search engine indexing process, the result has been the same: Live Search, a direct Google competitor, served users Google ads. Homer Simpson's D'oh... |
27 December 2007
06:28 GMT |
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Papa Google, in its unlimited wisdom, thought that it might push more ads in the same window and if it can't reduce the font with which they are written, it could add a scrolling function to the whole deal and that would mean a "problem solved" stamp on it. To be honest, I'm not big on clicking the ads, per... |
12 December 2007
08:48 GMT |
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Hey there, papa Google! What do you have for us today, what else is there that you know so damn well everything about and we are so insignificant and little that we need tutoring? Oh, you want to take away free choice from us? Ok, that's cool, we must obey, because you must probably know everything and, most imp... |
5 December 2007
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Almost a decade ago, when baby Google was born, it wasn't the company of dreams it is today. It had a reduced number of employees, the pay was far from impressing and the headquarters well let's just say they were galaxies away from today but, by popular choice and a very good ad-distribution platform, th... |
3 December 2007
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The way that the YouTube dev team has structured the videos on the site's pages is annoying, there's no doubt about it. With the continuous changes going on and all the categories being removed and added, re-branded and downgraded, it's pretty much a mess out there, but it is all presented in a seemin... |
30 November 2007
06:31 GMT |
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After the survey data released at the middle of November that had YouTube portrayed as a good and reliable advertising media, for only a fifth of the total number of all the advertisers that tried it, Google decided that it wanted its buck back at a much faster rate.Although only rarely spotted and that after a loooo... |
27 November 2007
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Oh you know it The micro-economy that Google has grown to be is grabbing more and more percentage from the old media advertising revenue and by "old media" I don't mean the "Extra, extra, read all about it!" type of advertising that was being delivered at the beginning of last century and up to the '70... |
21 November 2007
10:01 GMT |
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A recent survey by TNS Research revealed that 78% of respondents agree that online video ads provide as good as -- if not more -- of an opportunity to learn about an advertiser than TV. And 64% said that they have taken some action after seeing an online video ad. In addition, 41% of those surveyed stated that after ... |
20 November 2007
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When I woke up this morning and had a sip out of a plastic Pepsi bottle I checked out its label and saw some resemblances with Grand Theft Auto's original cover pattern. GTA titles usually feature covers that are divided into squares which show you a couple of symbolic characters and their actions. For example ... |
14 November 2007
07:00 GMT |
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Top international brands such as: Calvin Klein, Domino's Pizza, Fox, eBay and many others will start using the mobile gaming environment for placing their ads. This should help them stand out with a bold and fresh customer approach and also bring cheaper, or even free mobile games.Jamster, one of the world'... |
30 October 2007
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Hewlett-Packard, better known as HP, announced the launch of a $300 million marketing campaign that is aimed at promoting its printer business and all kinds of related services including Web based printing that accounts for the company's most profitable business branch.The giant computer manufacturing company th... |
28 August 2007
08:20 GMT |
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In the recent time, Google Maps was one of the most updated Google products, receiving all kinds of updates starting with imagery and ending with Mapplets. Today, the folks from the Google Maps team introduce a new feature that adds interoperability between AdWords and the mapping solution, allowing users to find a c... |
17 July 2007
14:36 GMT |
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Valve has released the much anticipated updates for Half Life 1 Engine and Counter Strike, says Steam News. The site's post reads: "Updates to the Half-Life 1 Engine and Counter-Strike have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:... |
6 March 2007
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