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No Brand is Safe
Date: Mar 13, 2012
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Interesting fall out from Rush Limbaugh slut-gate in the US. Advertisers are shocked, shocked to find their brands are running during controversial programming. One of
Read More → Ad Networks and the Duality of Man
Date: May 16, 2011
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Navigation tabs are not an obvious source of comedy. But on ad network sites there are two tabs that tell a joke that is, well, a joke. Pick a random ad network site and
Read More → Channeling Shirky, The Web is not Passive
Date: May 10, 2011
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Treating the web like TV – as we have mentioned before - is an issue with amazing tenacity. And where the Web-as-TV thing is most dangerous is the conception of h
Read More → Web 2.0 Authenticity Continuum Spring 2011
Date: Mar 23, 2011
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Facebook – Authenticity high. Generally, OK with everyone. Unless you are a do-not-even-own-a-tv, reactionary progressive whose house is only heated to 50°F (10°C
Read More → Still afraid of the big bad Web? Really?
Date: Mar 09, 2011
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A friend of mine recently tipped me to this cool tool for the paranoid: http://selectout.org/ Visit that site to find out which of the 115 different companies listed R
Read More → Was it just fun while it lasted?
Date: Dec 10, 2010
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In the US, the Titans are about to clash. The results will likely be Huxlian. The collateral damage will be consumers & non-titan businesses. And the only one who see
Read More → Break me off a piece of that Big Apple
Date: Nov 02, 2010
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This week, despite all that extra security and talk of “resistance”, the Hippo jetted off to AdTech in the Big Apple. Yea, we know .. another show, more spo
Read More → The way we live now
Date: Oct 29, 2010
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This post is like a sermon or more like a soapbox, we have always wanted to get up on that little wooden box and have at least one or two people listen and shake their he
Read More → Scamville strikes again
Date: Oct 20, 2010
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Online advertising is like a frontier town in the American West. It is a young settlement perched on the fringes of civilization where miners, fortune seekers, Christians
Read More → Hippo seeks pleasant company to occupy desk in Dusseldorf
Date: Oct 14, 2010
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Yup. It’s true. We are looking for THE most hip-hop Account Manager to join us in our Dusseldorf headquarters. Awesomeness to follow. Reporting to the CEO, GlibHipp
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