Posts Tagged ‘advertising’
Digg announce ‘Digg Ads’ – giving users a way to feedback
June 4th, 2009 by Dave@LGUK
Props to Rocio from LG Blog ES for spotting this one: Yesterday Digg announced plans for a new advertising platform — Digg Ads.
Digg Ads will give you more control over which advertisements are displayed on Digg. The more an ad is Dugg, the less the advertiser will have to pay. Conversely the more an ad is buried, the more the advertiser is charged, pricing it out of the system.
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The goal here is to give advertisers a way to present content related to their brands and get immediate input on whether it’s relevant to the Digg audience, or not.
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Where’s my silver jump-suit?
January 26th, 2009 by Dave@LGUK
I might be a little late on the uptake here, but last week I saw, for the first time, these giant ad-screens on the London Underground.
I'm in two minds about them. Part of me is amazed at the paper-thin giant screens and the sheer level of 50's style vision-of-the-future they exude. Another part of me is reluctant to accept yet another level of intrusive distracto-vision into my daily life. Still, I guess I'll only start worrying when I'm faced with Minority Report-style hologram advertising
Now - where are the jet packs and flying...
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More interesting launches and ships on the horizon
September 9th, 2008 by Dave@LGUK
Like Chris, I've been very impressed with Google's launch of Chrome but I also wanted to comment on Spore's SporeVote - where another canny move was made, launch-wise.
SporeVote launched a week before the release of the widely anticipated game, giving people the opportunity to submit the characters they've made through the Creature Creator (released in June to give a glimpse at some of the characters you'll be able to create in-game) and get extra buzz.
To celebrate the launch of the Spore Creature Creator, we found 75 of the most creative innovators from around the world and asked them to create...
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