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Google Adds New Video Ads

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
14:41 GMT

Google, 5000% More Sought After on iPhone

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
03:16 GMT

Google Bringing the 2000's 2D Back

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
12:06 GMT

A Big NO to Floating AdSense Ads

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

Some Insight About AdWords Ads

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

Google Bans ASCII Art from AdWords?

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

Yahoo! / Adobe Ad System Ready for Testing, Download Link Inside

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

Google Already Moving into the Printed Ads Market

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

AdWords Banned by Google for Being Sexy

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
15:36 GMT

Live Search No Longer Listing Google Ads

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

AdSense to be Equipped with Scrolling Function?

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

Google :"Your Choice? Nah, I Know Better What Is Best for You, So Shut Up and Sit in Your Corner"

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
05:50 GMT

Google Making Another Move for Fairness

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
13:51 GMT

YouTube Looking Pretty

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

YouTube Optimizes Its Monetization Program

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
08:23 GMT

Google Sucks

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

AOL Brings Video Ticker Ads

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
03:38 GMT

GTA Cover Pattern Resembles New Pepsi Ads

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

Mobile In-Game Advertising Service Gets Testing

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
06:50 GMT

HP Seeks to Boost Printer Sales

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

Ads on Maps - Money on Locations

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

Updates from Valve Released Upon Demand

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
03:52 GMT


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