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Caught With Their Pants Down

Written on: November 22nd 2011
Author: Sarah Novotny

ADOTAS – It is being reported that many major brands have been buying online ad space on soft-core porn sites. Apparently, according to an article in AdNews, Google has been offering free trial advertising on these sites. Others ads that have appeared on these sites include GE money ads and [...] more...

Twitter maven Guy Kawasaki accidently tweets ‘Gossip Girl’ porn malware

Written on: June 24th 2009
Author: Edward Barrera

ADOTAS — The venture capitalist, book author, web site owner and former Apple employee was used by malware trolls to get Twitter followers to link to a site that had a fake sex tape involving “Gossip Girl” star Leighton Meester. The site, however, prompted visitors to download malicious software instead. Sophos, [...] more...

Funding Round-Up: Playfish, Zuora, Glassdoor

Written on: October 28th 2008
Author: Kathleen

ADOTAS – Playfish, a developer and publisher of games for social networks, has landed $17 million in a Series B round of funding led by Accel Partners and Index Ventures. The investment will be used to expand Playfish’s presence in the social gaming sector. SaaS shop Zuora has raised $15 million [...] more...

Porn Passed Over as Web Users Become Social: Author

Written on: September 17th 2008
Author: Reuters Group

Social networking sites are the hottest attraction on the Internet, dethroning pornography and highlighting a major change in how people communicate, according to a web guru. Bill Tancer, a self-described “data geek”, has analyzed information for over 10 million web users to conclude that we are, in fact, what we click, [...] more...

Web is Double Edged Sword for Porn

Written on: December 12th 2007
Author: Globe and Mail

It’s a large entertainment entity suing a popular video-sharing site for what it claims is widespread copyright infringement, but it’s not Viacom suing YouTube — it’s a company called Vivid Entertainment Group, one of North America’s largest purveyors of “adult content,” and it has just filed a lawsuit against a [...] more...

Google Image Search Violates Adult Copyright

Written on: February 22nd 2006
Author: Sarah Novotny

A U.S. District judge ruled against Google this week in a case involving Google’s image search and adult website Perfect 10. Perfect 10 sued Google last year, saying that the thumbnail images provided by Google’s image search were a violation of copyright law. The judge granted a preliminary injunction against [...] more...

Right now, at the beginning of 2012, what are you watching the most closely for its ad and marketing opportunities?
Mobile. Smart devices have become standard, and advertising is only going to become more creative there.

Online video. It's a real competitor to TV now, and it presents really interesting ways to engage viewers.

Social media. The new Facebook timeline and the surge of Google+ have cracked the game wide open again.

Tempting as it might be, I don't want to get too involved in one aspect.

See, I think this might be a good time to see what would happen if we revisited MySpace, but made the ads slightly bigger... with more strobe effect.

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