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Google Bringing TrueView Ads to Apps, Games

Performance Marketing

Seventy percent of YouTube’s in-steam ad views are those skippable TrueView ads, Google’s svp of advertising Susan Wojcicki told attendees


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1960s Ad for Hasbro’s Pie Face

Creativity

With pie attacks all the rage again, perhaps Hasbro will bring back Pie Face, the 1960s game that challenged children to hit themselves in the face with whipped-cream pies. "Turn [...]

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Media buyers urged to gun down sales reps

Creativity

Life as a media buyer isn't just strip clubs and steak dinners on the dime of publishers. It's also about a torrent of ad-sales people with really nice teeth and [...]

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KanJam snuffs out dying embers of the ’60s

Creativity

Ad agency Cenergy has killed off the last of the 1960s spirit with a summer promotional tour dubbed "Peace, Love and KanJam." KanJam isn't a free music festival. It's a [...]

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A board game made for the economic crisis

Creativity

Con Von Hoffman, who runs the fine Collateral Damage blog and used to write for Brandweek, was kind enough to bring "Crunch, The Game for Utter Bankers" to my attention. [...]