No ‘tyrants’ anymore.
According to the Guardian, a British recruitment firm got into a bit of trouble with the UK’s advertising watchdog because one of its radio ads features an apparently German boss whose spoken German reminds of Charlie Chaplin’s.
read onUpdated: Facebook advertises with my name.
Update 2 – Thomas Vehmeier explains on the Internet Economics blog (in German) why “think global, act local” isn’t just a good slogan for environmentalists.
read onRe:Publica – Geldverdienen mit Blogs
Geld mag nicht stinken, aber Geldverdienen hat in Deutschland durchaus ein gewisses Geschmäckle. Vor allem natürlich da, wo die ideale von offener, freier gesellschaftlicher Kommunikation mit denen von bezahlter zusammentreffen.
read onClichés galore – unmistakably German.
I usually don’t remember things I read in a newspaper word by word. But I still remember the beginning of an article published in the Irish Times back in 1998. It dealt with the German act in that year’s Eurovision song contest, and my Irish friend thought I should read it. Germans have a general, [...]
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Tragikomisch. Bittersüß. Zielgruppengerecht.
Eine offensichtlich ernst gemeinte Kontaktanzeige an einem Schwarzen Brett, die zumindest die Aufmerksamkeit meiner Kamera auf sich zog.
read onAds making sense?
Sometimes it’s really amazing to watch how the google adwords service reacts to content changes on this page… Three pope related posts, and ads for Benedict related services are displayed. Impressive, but I suppose, not too helpful for most blogs, where the content of archive pages is probably as important as the index page when [...]
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One not made for Cannes.
These days, whereever I go, bad advertisement seems to multiply around me. Is it me, or is the quality of the common German advertisement getting worse, if at all possible?
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Ever wondered why you might need contacts but never dared to ask? This horrible advertisement in the Hamburg S-Bahn thinks it has the answer…
read onMy two cents.
Last week, I read somewhere that google-ad clickthrough rates are to increase significantly if the ads are placed between the posts as opposed to being placed alongside. Well, from my experience, whoever claimed this correlation was probably just lucky. Personally, I can’t really see any change in the clickthrough rates – it’s still in the [...]
read on16 clicks.
Have you ever seen the google ad sense advertisements in the right column? They have been up since July 16th and have been clicked on by approximately 12 people, as I did actually click on five of them over the last months. I think the idea of adjusting advertisment to content (aka readers’ and writers’ [...]
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