Fortune: Google's Media Takeover "Stuck on the Launch Pad"

Google has made plenty of attempts to extend its advertising empire beyond search, the latest being a joint deal with NBC Universal to sell TV ads via Google’s online service. But as Fortune magazine points out, “based on close reading and conversations with people who were involved, the deal looks like a whole lot of nothing much – another Google experiment that we likely will not hear of again for a long while.”

The article said that like Google’s recent, limited forays into print and radio advertising, this latest deal reeks of one that a startup might make, not a company of Google’s stature.

The

AW+

WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.

Subscribe today!

To Read the Full Story Become an Adweek+ Subscriber

View Subscription Options

Already a member? Sign in