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Search Engine Land’s Barry Schwartz has made an interesting discovery: Google has stopped calling the ads in its search-engine results “sponsored results.” The new label is one that should be clear to just about everybody: It’s calling the advertisements “Ads.”
As a consumer of Web sites–and an editor who’s been involved in …
For anyone wondering how Twitter is planning to make money, we have our answer: Promoted Tweets. You may have noticed certain Promoted Tweets when using the search box on Twitter’s website, but the company is now rolling out Promoted Tweets directly in user timelines.
Twitter is taking a baby steps approach by partnering with …
A new study from Microsoft Research India and Max Planck Institute for Software Systems shows that companies are taking gender preferences into account when posting their ads on Facebook. Though that is completely logical, they also found out whether or not you reveal your sexual orientation on your profile, companies still somehow have …
This ad for London Dungeon‘s Bloody Mary Tudor exhibit has been banned from tube stations after it sparked complaints for scary the bejeebus out people. During her five-year reign as Queen of England, Mary burnt more than 300 people alive. Think that’s scary? What would a zombie Queen Mary be capable of? Eek.
[via The Daily What]
Last week Twitter announced @earlybird, a promo stream for the company’s advertising partners. The account will dole out exclusive deals to its followers, as given by said ad partners and deal sites Groupon and Gilt. The first deal was announced this morning and after all the talk, frankly, it was a bit of a let down. The offer, good at …
Digital billboards exist, yes, but why not make some of them connected billboards that anybody could use to run custom advertising campaigns similar to how Google’s AdWords platform works?
If you do a search on Google, the ads you see on the right-hand side of the search results pages are AdWords advertisements. People and companies …
