Archive for August 14th, 2007

From Jalopnik
Google’s a mysterious thing in the auto webiverse. If you’ve got a good story it doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll end up on top of the search giant’s search pages. Sometimes it’s so important to get ahead of the rest of the pack, you’ll do some very strange things. Like for instance Edmunds.
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From PR News Wire.
One of Fortune 100 companies, Aflac has launched a new advertising campaign to woo small business owners. In the first phase of the campaign, the radio advertising spot shows the small businesses owner’s life in a funny way. The ad spots are then followed by 30 second Aflac small business tips.
Aflac has [...]

From Ads of The World
This is an amusing and smart print advertisement campaign launched by Alestra AT&T to promote its telephone services in Mexico. The campaign clearly focuses on the importance of communication in human life by showing some interesting examples of consequences from history pages that took place due to lack of communication.
The advertisements [...]

From Tech Crunch
Video sharing site VideoEgg has shifted tactics to become at least the fourth company to act as an ad network for Facebook applications, reports TechCrunch.
VideoEgg operates as a tool for the self-publishing of videos, monetizing those videos through ads, since its founding in 2005. Now it is positioning itself as a way [...]

From Harris Interactive
The number of people who have used the internet to search for health-related information has increased from 53 percent in 2005 to 71 percent currently, bringing the number of US adults who have searched for health information online to 160 million, according to Harris Interactive.
That’s an increase from 136 million “cyberchondriacs,” as [...]

From Ad Punch
Fiat had recently launched this clever print advertisement campaign to promote its cargo van, Ducato. The campaign clearly aims at bringing out the increased capacity of the van. The advertisements are showing Fiat Ducato behind warehouse and huge container that gives impression that they constitute the rear end of the van consequently emphasizing [...]

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From Consumerist
Today Mattel expanded their lead paint recall to include 253,000 die cast “Cars” toys. In addition, Mattel expended a 2006 magnetic toy recall to include about 7 million other toys.
Poorly constructed magnet toys have been the cause of several injuries and at least one fatality. When the toys break and magnets fall out, they [...]

From Consumerist
How long does it take for United Airlines to get a maintenance crew over to your plane so that they can “fix” something with duct tape? The answer is 45 minutes, not including the time it took to “de-plane” the passengers.
Reader Ryan writes to Graham Atkinson of United Airlines (from Dulles, where he [...]