http://www.tribbleagency.com Advertising Agency and Marketing Agency News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:16:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wow, this must be the low of lows. Evidently Mother New York feels that painting up the town with graffiti is great, paying someone to do illegal street graffiti is cool. This is complete trash, because honestly that is what Mother is ... http://www.tribbleagency.com/?p=6256 This is almost funny, almost because the root of the problem is the fact that AT&T lost an a lawsuit against "there's a map for that" ad by Verizon. This is an interesting thing, because honestly the major complaint against AT&T is the lack of 3G coverage. ... http://www.tribbleagency.com/?p=6252 Timothy Smith and Brigette Whisnant bought a four-bedroom, 3.5-bath home at 621 Park Ave. in River Forest for $677,500 from John and Katrina Vainisi on Oct. 28. -- according to this article.. The McMansion is in a NICE neighbourhood. Meanwhile nearly 500 of their fellow employees ... http://www.tribbleagency.com/?p=6248 All 2074 pages, in PDF format. This monster document weighs in at 2,074 pages. It's sheer size is overwhelming and the major complaints regarding it is that individuals trying to view it on a mobile device are seeing their phones and pda's crash. Plus it reads like ... http://www.tribbleagency.com/?p=6245 In a very interesting statement, it appears that Google is saying that Yahoo is a competitor to WPP group plc, but not themselves. A recent check on the stock price of WPP group plc (NASDAQ: WPPGY) showed the following as a list of "Related companies" So the question is, ... http://www.tribbleagency.com/?p=6240 Dear Microsoft, I have bought a brand new spanking HP Notebook computer. It's wonderful. In fact I am taking a screen shot of myself using it now. Notice something? I am not using Windows 7, it came with the computer. When I got this ... http://www.tribbleagency.com/?p=6236 Evidently Maurice Levy feels that there is not enough advertising dollars out there to support any real growth online. So he came to the stunning solution that people will actually have to pay for services rendered. Novel idea. Wonder where he got that... it's ... http://www.tribbleagency.com/?p=6231 This is almost comical, evidently the advertising agencies are fighting now over who can run a pre-roll ad in 1080p on Youtube. We have had several reports of agencies now wishing to display their ads in 1080p pre-roll... before the video begins of a guy falling off a ... http://www.tribbleagency.com/?p=6227 Scottish & Newcastle UK, owned by Heineken, is looking for a new advertising agency to launch its Strongbow Gold cider in international markets. We were told that the company is looking for a strong digital presence with a bias towards social media and "good google rankings" IE: SEO. We were told ... http://www.tribbleagency.com/?p=6225 Today Microsoft has banned roughly 1 million Xbox consoles from the Microsoft Live network, and many of those banned consoles are showing up on Ebay, with unsuspecting bidders not being aware that the console they are buying or bidding on has been banned. Some people have complained to Microsoft ... http://www.tribbleagency.com/?p=6222 Adage is now stating that Digital Agencies are ready to lead. But they have yet to define digital advertising. This is becoming more and more of a problem, as many firms are calling themselves digital, but yet all they do is throw clients money into Google Adwords. This is not ... http://www.tribbleagency.com/?p=6217 This is a quick follow up on the article written earlier today regarding Victors & Spoils, Adhack left the below comment: And to make it more clear, a bunch of crowdsourcing startups also existing prior to Victors & Spoils. I know because I'm 1 of 3 people in an office ... http://www.tribbleagency.com/?p=6208 We want to open this up with a statement from Adhack (taken from the comments below) And to make it more clear, a bunch of crowdsourcing startups also existing prior to Victors & Spoils. I know because I'm 1 of 3 people in an office doing it at AdHack (http://adhack.com). Another ... http://www.tribbleagency.com/?p=6206 About a year ago, I had work done for my Son (4 year old) at PH Anaesthesia Associates located in Pottsville, Pa. The problem is that anyone that does business with them is under threat of extreme damage to your credit score, even if you pay the bill ... http://www.tribbleagency.com/?p=6202 Nicholas Francisco after missing for two years has been found alive and well, living in another state. Detectives determined last week Nicholas Francisco had changed his name. We have been reporting on this issue for the past 2 years and were one of the first media outlets to report ... http://www.tribbleagency.com/?p=6197