Posts Tagged: ‘advertising’

Think about how much press a car company like Porsche gets. Or Tesla, which just went public recently. There’s the magazine and newspaper stories, the reviews in Motor Trend, Car&Driver, Consumer reports, etc., the huge TV ad campaigns and the TV stories that result from them, appearances in movies and all the rest… Car companies get a huge amount of attention in our culture.

But have you ever thought about how many cars a company has to sell to get all that attention?

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This excellent video explains how cookies work, why cookies were created, and how cookies are used to track your activities as you move from site to site to target advertising right into your brain. Welcome to the world of “third-party cookies”…

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Taking (yet another) cue from Jamie Keiles, whose Seventeen Magazine Project, prompted my little foray into Cosmoland, I wanted to see what types of products are advertised in its pages. This breakdown doesn’t include all of the advertorial items included in the what-to-wear, how-to-be-beautiful sections, but rather the actual ad spots. As expected, there’s a [...]

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If you were busy getting work done yesterday, you probably have little idea who the Old Spice guy I’m talking about is. If you do know who I’m talking about, your boss probably wants you to work overtime to make up for the time you spent yesterday watching actor Isaiah Mustafa broadcasting (almost) live from Portland, Ore., about men’s hygiene products yesterday.

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You Asked:

How do they put the logos and designs on the infield of NASCAR tracks? — Bill, Detroit, Mich.

Marshall Brain Answers…

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Molly and I often dissect women- and gender-related topics down to their most granular details on Stuff Mom Never Told You. But we also try to maintain a sense of humor while studying and analyzing cultural portrayals of women, and sometimes we’ve just gotta look and laugh at certain slip-ups.

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At any major sporting event there is one thing you are sure to see if the weather is decent. Look, up in the sky, it’s a blimp. A gigantic sky whale. Like a helicopter, blimps can provide a hovering platform in the sky that makes them great for aerial photography. But unlike a helicopter, a [...]

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Just consider this image, would you? Do you find your dieting resolve strengthening, or caving to its sweet, chocolaty powers of seduction? According to a recent study, this photograph might help you resist temptation.

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Liz Gannes at NewTeeVee was listening in to Google’s earnings call yesterday, and what she heard was Patrick Pichette, Google’s CFO, saying that the company expects its YouTube subsidiary to turn a profit very soon. As Gannes pointed out, we don’t really know much about how YouTube’s doing, though CreditSuisse said in April that the site may lose $470 million in 2009.

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Not only is Google watching you, they’re also planning on using the information they glean from your activities to target advertising to your interests. It’s called behavioral targeting, and according to Miguel Helft of The New York Times, members of Congress and privacy advocates aren’t exactly thrilled with the idea.

It seems like the search juggernaut is aware, and has already taken steps to evade controversy by offering to allow people to edit personal information that the company is keeping. You also, Helft said, will be able to have your name removed from the “interest-based” advertising list. Center for Democracy and Technology CEO Ari Schwartz feels that Google isn’t doing enough to let people know about the information the company is collecting about them, and isn’t making much of an effort to tell people how to get out of the program, either.

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