Yes, it’s another Infographic Sunday, and this time we bring you one that shows you where Google is making the big bucks. Everyone knows it’s in advertising, but what are the very keywords that make Google roll in the money? That’s is all to be revealed in our new infographic chosen from Visual.ly. Hope you enjoy it.
PHD, a marketing company, has copped some flack over its new video campaign titled “We are the Future”. Why? Because it reveals the extent of how PHD or other advertising companies will help its clients interact with “the next generation”.
Fathers and sons usually go fishing or watch a football game, but deceiving unsuspecting people with rouge security applications? Well, one father-and-son duo will now pay over $8 million to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission – with that money to be used to reimburse victims of their scam.
As part of a global restructuring plan, MySpace is to close their offices in Australia and will axe about 500 employees worldwide – or 47 percent of their entire global workforce – as speculation arise that MySpace might be sold by News Corp.
2010. What a year to end a decade. From political uncertainty in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom, the leaking of important US documents – from Afghanistan to diplomatic cables – and even a possible upheaval of our classification system to finally allow a R18+ rating in Australia, bringing it in line with other western nations.
Microsoft and Intel had face them. Now it’s Google’s turn. The search engine will be investigated by the European Union for antitrust violations, with the European Commission accusing that Google had abused its dominant position in the search engine market.
John Brumby goes Oprah and starts giving doctors iPads, Facebook tries to kill Gmail with their own email project and your phone will be able to determine if you have a STD instantly. What a freaky little world.
In the world of technology lately, there has been a lot of change and innovation going on with the machines many of us use in our -day-today lives. The PC, for a long time, has dominated market share and seen as a God-send for businesses. Over the years, the price and efficiency of computers have opposed each as the price drops and processing power increases. Apple however, are seen as a ‘cool’, ‘hip’ company that currently has a strong, loyal fan and developer base. Marvels that amazed the world, thanks to Mac OS X and the iPod range, didn’t come without an expensive price tag. Microsoft, now in a fray to repair its damaged reputation after the disastrous Vista release, have dumped their Seinfeld ads and put on hold their “I’m A PC” campaign for the moment to make way for their new “Laptop Hunters” Campaign.
Is this Yahoo’s new ad strategy to bring in more ad revenue? You be the judge of that. And if you advertise on Flickr, this will (hopefully) be fixed soon.
We love Christmas (and the holidays), and why not celebrate it by watching the two new Christmas/Holiday-themed “Get a Mac” ads from Apple. Entitled “I Can Do Anything” and “Tree Trimming”, these follows last year’s style of animation, instead of using the real actors to perform the scenes, and like always, they are very, very amusing.
Google has decided to terminate its ad deal with Yahoo after the US Department of Justice rejected the revised ad deal that would account for more than 90 percent or more of the web ad market, and “would likely harm competition in the markets for Internet search advertising and Internet search syndication.”
Yahoo and Google is being reported to have submitted a revised version of their proposal to form an advertisement partnership to the US Justice Department anti-trust regulators, according to the Wall Street Journal – citing “people familiar with the matter”.
Russian regulators have said that Google cannot acquire Zao Begun, a local advertising company in Russia – effectively halting its $140 million deal that was agreed to in July. Zao Begun is owned by Rambler Media, another Russian company who runs various websites and a search engine.
A new “Get a Mac” ad has been released that sees PC raising some money to fix Vista via a bake sale, after their marketing team decided to run an “expensive ad campaign instead of fixing Vista”. Mac then offers to help out by buying a cupcake from Vista … a $10 billion cupcake.
Google has decided that it will postponed a planned online advertising deal between it and Yahoo to allow the US anti-trust regulators to consider the ramifications of the deal. The anti-trust investigation is the first of its kind, as the Department of Justice (the regulators) usually perform investigations in an event of a merger.