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Tag Archives: Advertising
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

My first “Promoted Account” showed up in the #newtwitter interface a little earlier. Along with Promoted Trends and Top Tweets, Promoted Accounts are suggestions based on who you follow in order to follow the related – promoted – account. So far they’ve kept quite well out of the way for the ones I’m not interested [...]

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Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Sitting innocently this morning just after I fired up Digsby, I discovered something I didn’t really like the look of. I think it just inserted an advert into my timeline of tweets that appears when you hover over the Twitter account icon. It’s not appeared in my main window, but just in this preview section. [...]

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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Yesterday I briefly wrote about the new Renault Twingo TV ads that had caught my attention because they appealed to my somewhat childish sense of humour. Fortunately, I was able to embed 2 examples of these ads for you directly in to my blog post, thanks to the official Renault UK YouTube channel. It seems [...]

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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Last night I noticed another Renault Twingo ad that has appeared ok UK television. I guess it probably just appeals to my “unique” brand of humour, but I think these ads are genius. Pity about the car, though. Also, kudos to Renault for getting these up on an official YouTube channel. Finally marketers are getting [...]

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