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Viajes Galeón - Twitpoker - (2012)

Viajes Galeón was launched via a twitpoker game, where players weren't stripped of their clothes, but their twitter followers. Egads!
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Smart Car - animated ascii ad on twitter!

Dare I call this a first?
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Condé Nast's Reddit stops peddling risque jailbait images, sticks with beating women and rape instead

Reddit is owned by Condé Nast, the company behind such famously classy magazines including Architectural Digest, Bon Appétit, GQ, The New Yorker, Vani
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Why your digital ad is a ‘fart button’.

The American Heritage Dictionary "You are your words" (2012) case study

To celebrate the launch of the 5th edition of The American Heritage Dictionary, Mechanica and Lollipop have created an interactive experience around t
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Take this lollipop - I double dare you

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Careful now: Using Facebook login means Facebook can lock your users out at any time.

SVT reports about yet another case of someone who got their facebook account deleted without warning. This time it's Roman Pixell.
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Who is your friend on Facebook? Bimbots are befriending the best of them.

Henry Copeland of Blogads has found fake people on Facebook.
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Adland un-banned from Google Adsense, despite the many bare bottoms in advertising.

You remember when Adland was banned from Google adsense for doing what we do - that is show ads, right?

Death Can Catch You Anywhere, Anytime - goodbye message from app "if I die"

'IF i DIE', is a unique Facebook application that enables people to leave a message that will only be published after they die.
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Björn Borg bare butt cheeks prove too much for Facebook who banned their fanpage admin

Facebook has blocked Micke Kazarnowicz, administrator of the international Björn Borg fan page, for "pornographic content".
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Aluma puts homeless people on the map. The virtual maps - Gowalla and Facebook places.

The other night Aluma a magazine that raises money for homeless, and their agency in Malmö working pro-bono The Fan Club, had a pow-wow where they spe

The town of "Speed" changed its name to "Speedkills" after 10K likes on Facebook

Here's a different PSA from the Transport Accident Commission Victoria (TAC), there's a town - sorry there was a town - called Speed somewhe
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Philips Nigel & Victoria - Apartment - part 1

Today, Philips launches ‘Nigel and Victoria’ a new online-only comedy show, or a non-romantic comedy because Nigel is failing miserably to score, and
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LionsGate - The Last Exorcism on Chatroulette

LionsGate know exactly who might enjoy watching a freaky movie about exorcisms, teenage guys between 15 and 19. Where are all these dudes?

Make your twitter-feed a newspaper with Paper.li

It was @darrylohrt who tipped me off to this one, so I had to give Paper.li a go, and when I made a feed of @dabitch's twitter friends, It turned

Making of HaveYouBeenShortlisted.com - (2010)

Each time a new gadget craze sweeps the Internet, there's a high probability that the movers and shakers in the advertising world will be among i
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Facebook lets publishers contact "likers"

This is creepy Facebook Lets Publishers Contact “Likers" reports allfacebook.com This is the second step of Facebook providing all pages on th
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Smirnoff "icing" drinking game, is it an agency made viral or a human made viral?

The New York Times has an interesting article up Popular New Drinking Game Raises Question, Who’s ‘Icing’ Whom?.
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Forget banner hijacking, now we have "likejacking"

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Will Karen26 please the Cannes jury? It did after all "go viral".....

#Karen26 as she was known on Twitter, the "Danish mother desperately seeking..." the father of her son August which created quite the viral

If tweets were real : Twitter: The Criterion Collection

Twitter: The Criterion Collection

How Twitter and Facebook Make Us More Productive

(Wired) Contrary to recent research about social networks and efficiency, taking a break from work to read that tweet about Lady Gaga's lingerie
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Maytag Gets Dooced

More weeks-old ad news. Kind of. Web 2.0 news? Social media news?
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Haters
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#FollowFriday : The #adpeeps who tweet

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Art Director Wisdom.

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So, what exactly went wrong with Motrins ad?

Was it the tone of voice, or rather snark? Was it not understanding the market? Was it offensive to 'babywearing' moms?
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On Facebook, your face can be used in ads (without you knowing it) via SocialMedia

There's a new social media ad service posse in town, their name is Socialmedia - 'the social advertising network'. Their twist?
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TeliaSonera puts ads over other peoples content with their Surf Open mobile content.

TeliaSonera, the cellphone provider, has a browser with which you can connect to the web called Surf Open.
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Stealth advertising set to become legal (in the UK)

Yeah, I took the headline right out of the mouth of the Financial Times as it sounds so doomsdayie*.
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Youtube and Myspace crack down on copyright infringement

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Help the Hill Holiday intern out

There is something odd going on in the comments to the HHblog post Responsibility. What’s Your Policy?...
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Strawberry Frog viral for Onitsuka Tiger

Strawberry Frog has done a viral for Onitsuka Tiger, available here at putfile "Lovely football Karoke", and like their previous breath of f
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Backlash in Australia over Coke Zero campaign

Bannerblog is covering the story of Coca-Cola's launch of Coke Zero in the Australian market.

google in the media biz... will they make the leap?

Google's media ambitions have been causing quite a stir lately...
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AOL's new AIM viral campaign incomplete

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No nipples please, we're British.

An ad that encourages Europeans to vote has been re-edited for Britain, editing out part of a scene where a young woman breastfeeds her baby. The CAA
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Gnome around the world - viral campaign

Sooo, Travelocity's guerilla marketing campaign ripped straight from the movie Amelie seems to be working out well for them.

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