Online ads not the license to print money they were for a while, so the internet is doomed. Right?
In the UK:
Enders, a research group, estimates that the UK online display advertising market was at best flat in the third quarter, compared with the same period last year. Growth rates in recent years have been double [...]

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…he were a Democrat. Or Karl Rove was. Observe:
via Sully.

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Even as I was writing the last entry, my fears about where the US presidential campaign was headed - signalled by the reptilian rasps some of my hard astarboard acquantainces were parroting here from whatever poisonous screed they were reading online - were being made manifest. John McCain, despite being a victim of this type [...]

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Congrats to one of Ireland’s best admen and one of the most colourful guys in Irish business - Stuart Fogarty of AFA O’Meara. This week the news of his merger with McConnell’s was confirmed:

The enlarged group will have a turnover of €89m, the company announced yesterday, and will be known as The McConnell Group.
The deal [...]

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Every blogger I’ve ever had more than a ten-minute conversation with eventually comes around to a confession of their deepest, darkest desire. For love of the game, eventually, doesn’t pay the bills. It’s why some of the island of Ireland’s best bloggers have, from time to time, had to scale back to focus on the [...]

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Damien Mulley posted an unimpeachably comprehensive look at the hyper-targeting ad programme that Facebook’s exponentially growing popularity - 167,000 Irish users and growing, according to my former colleague - is making possible. For advertisers it seems like a dream come true.
Maybe more of a nightmare for the advertisees, however.
Earlier this week privacy advocates started to [...]

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Harry McGee of the Irish Examiner reports that Fine Gael are poised to launch a poster campaign that uses the image of a happy looking PD leader, Tainaste and Minister for Justice Michael McDowell alongside statistics about rising levels of reported crime.
Cian over at Irish Election calls it “negative campaigning” - anticipating I’m sure the [...]

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Publius is a column covering media and marketing in all of its glory and shame in the Business section of the Sunday Tribune, which I edit, as some of you may know. It’s gotten some good responses from the advertising and PR industries - and provoked the ire of a few people…Irish Times wunderkind [...]

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