Category: Advertising

  • YouTube starts ads, TubeStop stops ads

    Google announced, soon after its buying of YouTube, that it wouold add some advertisment on the amateur video web site. This is now what they did. But it did not leave the software developers insensitive: TubeStop is a FireFox plug-in that hides or closes that ads in YouTube to keep the same pleasure without the…

  • Special sleeping bag

    Special sleeping bag

    After the socks with fingers, here comes the sleeping bag with arms and legs: Selk-bag.

  • National flag design critique

    National flag design critique

    What would happen if a designer team submitted national flags to customer countries? And listened to the ciritiques or comments? Link Via: Information Aesthetics.

  • All the Warner catalog for free

    And it does not even look illegal: Warner signed a partnership with imeem to share the adveertisment revenues from the web site when the North American users freely listen to the music freely available from the Warner catalog (including Madonna, Linkin Park, Green Day, Josh Groban, Faith Hill, My Chemical Romance, Big & Rich, John…

  • Crop circles and more

    Crop circles and more

    You already knew about the unreadable writings done (by and for extra-terrestrial beings) under the form of ground engravings in South America or crop circles in Europe and North America, but human marketing people will not let themselves outdone by little grey (or green) men for large scale communication:

  • FireFox with a Google toolbar

  • Found Nemo – again

    Do you remember the news bit I published in November 2005 with the following image? Today, more or less in the context of the preparation of the sequel Nemo 2, there is now a second version published on AdFreaks.

  • Internet loves UK Internet users

    Internet loves UK Internet users

    More precisely, according to an eMarketer market study, the companies advertising on the Internet are rushing to be in front of the English and French Internet users. Much more than for Italian, Spanish and German users. The exact origin of this difference is not well explained, but the advertising companies probably believe more in these…