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Microsoft Hammers Google in Leaked Parody of a Chrome Ad 'Chrome has you commercialized'

Microsoft takes a break from perfecting its blue screen of death to ape Google's ad style—abundant white space, bouncing Chrome ball, Beethoven's Fifth on the soundtrack—in this anti-Google video that…

May 17, 2013, 9:19 AM EDT

The Ad Smackdown: Facebook Vs. Google Which brand turns people off?

Can Facebook make a commercial for itself without turning people off? While not every response so far has been a thumbs down, the social site’s messaging certainly appears primed to draw…

May 13, 2013, 10:34 PM EDT

Google Celebrates Moms With Poignant Ad for Mother's Day A new specialty from Whirled

Google traditionally does a special Google Doodle for Mother's Day. This year, it's adding another gift—the commercial below from creative agency Whirled, saluting moms for everything they do. As Procter…

May 7, 2013, 6:54 AM EDT

Man Killed and Stuffed Down Toilet at Ad Agency, Google Photos Suggest Maybe you shouldn't peek inside

Google Business Photos is an interesting service through which companies can pay to add interior shots of their offices to Google Street View. The temptation to abuse the service by…

April 30, 2013, 3:59 PM EDT

Google Looks to Push Mobile In-Store Shopping, Tablet-First Design SVP Sridhar Ramaswamy discusses intersection of ads and shopping

As Google’s svp of ads and commerce, Sridhar Ramaswamy oversees the engineering behind products like Google Shopping’s Product Listing Ads, AdWords’ transition to Enhanced Campaigns and even the test of…

April 29, 2013, 1:44 PM EDT

Google Chrome's Ad With Stewie From Family Guy Is Super Irritating Shut up, Stewie!

Stewie Griffin, the 1-year-old prodigy from Family Guy, is a lovable character, but man can he get annoying. In this 15-second spot from 72andSunny for Google Chrome, he proves just…

April 26, 2013, 2:07 PM EDT

Amazon Preps Kindle TV Set-Top Box Streaming device to join an already crowded market

After expanding into hardware creation with the Kindle, the Kindle Fire tablet and a rumored smart phone, Amazon is developing a proprietary TV set-top box.  According to unnamed sources cited by…

April 25, 2013, 1:38 PM EDT

Google Analytics Adds Conversion Funnel Benchmarking Tool Plots channels' impacts on purchase paths by industry

With marketers all but required to play in multiple digital channels these days, ranging from online display to search to email, they are increasingly likely to have a hard time…

April 25, 2013, 11:00 AM EDT

Ad Targeters Are Laying the Groundwork for Visual Advertising Clicks on brand photos

Images account for nearly 50 percent of the average Facebook News Feed’s content. Assuming Facebook is a proxy for the entire Internet, then roughly half the pixels on the Internet…

April 21, 2013, 11:38 PM EDT

Google's Future Lies in Glass and Fiber, Present Is In Ads Ad revenue up 16 percent in first quarter

The biggest surprise in Google’s first-quarter earnings was the drop in advertising’s share of non-Motorola Mobility revenue from 96 percent a year ago to 92 percent in the most recent…

April 18, 2013, 7:07 PM EDT

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