Until recently ad salesmen in the magazine world were famous for living the materialistic lifestyles their publications promote.
Pandora, the popular Internet radio service that also has millions of users across connected devices, recently extended its ad platform to Internet-enabled televisions.
Triton Digital, a Los Angeles-based company, has recently built an ad exchange that allows advertisers to automate the buying of online and mobile-audio radio ads.
These stats were used by manufacturer Electronic Arts recently at the Ad Age Digital conference, to point out that in terms of reach, gaming is far bigger than any other media.
Hulu recently introduced Hulu Ad Swap which puts complete control in the hands of the user by enabling them to instantly swap out an ad they are watching for one that is more relevant.
The McCain campaign, meanwhile, is trying to capitalize on that, telling voters Obama cannot be trusted, recently running an ad mocking Obama's celebrity status while comparing the Illinois senator to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears.
But it appears that one savvy advertiser is using it in a promoted tweet (a recently introduced Twitter ad product where an advertiser can purchase the tweet that automatically appears at the top of a given search).
That, too, will change in 2013, with Pulse recently making its first ad sales hire in New York and planning more in the near future.
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New York City has recently launched a public ad campaign aimed at teen pregnancy, despite the fact that the city has seen a nearly 30 percent drop in rates.
Another product that Monster has recently introduced is its Career Ad Network Direct (CAN Direct).
Someone recently forwarded to me an ad that was posted on the electronic bulletin board for parents at a prestigious private school in Manhattan.
Those pieces include not only more software features on its phones, but even a run at a new mobile operating system, Tizen, with Intel and a recently announced deal with online ad tech firm OpenX to create a mobile ad exchange.
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Viacom competitor, Time Warner, recently released earnings that indicated improving ad trends for cable channels.
Adobe recently acquired Auditude, a video ad management and monetization company, to enter the growing online video advertising market.
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Another marketer, Fortune Brands, recently launched its first major national ad campaign in quite some time for its Jim Beam line of bourbon products.
In an interesting move, Euro RSCG, a mid-size global ad agency, announced recently that it will give birth to its French office, Euro BETC, as an independent mini global network.
Another of Mr Pistorius' sponsors, a South African pay TV channel, pulled its TV ad campaign featuring the athlete recently.
Recently, Lapides came across a new ad-supported Web site, called MyBizHomepage.com, that can answer most of his most important questions, even at daybreak.
Paul Orefice, a partner and creative director at The Watsons LLC, a New York-based ad agency, says he recently told a candidate for a production-manager position that if hired, he'd be working among an all-gay staff.
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Media services firm MagnaGlobal, a division of advertising and marketing giant Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), recently lowered its 2012 forecast for total ad spending growth to 2.9 percent from 4.8 percent, pointing to a slowdown in manufacturing, consumer spending and ongoing problems in the labor and housing markets.
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Recently, Robert Kim published a list of ad agencies and marketing folk from around the world that know social media and Google.
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Digiday recently served up some horror stories from the ad agency trenches, as senior managers reported on the trials of managing self-assured Millennials.
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The online ad management firm, known until recently as SearchIgnite, said spending rose across the three channels it tracks: search ads, display ads, and Facebook.
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Of course, while we've seen this sort of setup before (as seen above, check out an awesomely 90s Sega Channel ad after the break) and recently from OnLive and Gaikai, cloud gaming has yet to catch on in a major way.
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Spokeperson Matt Graves recently told Wired that the company hastily hired 18 ad sales reps during that time and is planning to bring on more.
When we met recently in Iraq, I asked Petraeus if that ad in the Times had marked the low point of his personal experience in this command.
Rino Scanzoni or Group M recently predicted 3.8% growth for the ad industry as a whole, but 8% to 9% growth for local television because of political ad spending growth.
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This stirred a deeply (well, not that deeply) buried memory in the hive mind that is Engadget, and we hunted down a Sony ad that's run on Japanese TV recently, which shows popular magician Tomohiro Maeda messing with a couple of PSPs and demonstrating playing a networked game on them with a UMD inserted into only one.
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The company also recently dealt with the public relations fallout from a Super Bowl ad that was widely panned for being insensitive.
Since the mid-November peak, however, Buzz has been falling among men, and recently dropped back into the negative territory it occupied since before the premier of the ad.
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