In Heat! – Nothing Serious Podcast #110
Things get weird as Cranky and Paul discuss the most expensive high-fiber diet ever, children’s rights to privacy online, overreaching schools and whether or not strippers are actually therapists....
View ArticleFurbaby – Nothing Serious #Podcast 103
How far would you go to protect your “furbaby”? Would Daniel make a good Tony Montoya? Why can’t you electrocute children in your classroom? Can reading to your kids at bedtime unfairly disadvantage...
View ArticleTim Cook Has Issues
Christmas is closing in but that doesn’t stop the crew of Nothing Serious from whipping out their Christmas Balls and waving them at the internet. On this weeks show Hodson gets excited about Ann...
View ArticleI’m Gonna Do It With Pants On
It’s the sex and alcohol episode as Paul, Daniel and Steven discuss teaching women to masturbate, alcohol warnings for women, 8 month long erections, pregnant teen boys in Chicago, police roadblocks,...
View ArticleForget The Desktop, Facebook Ads Are ALL Mobile - Paul O'Flaherty
Over the past few weeks I have been running various Facebook local awareness campaigns for clients. The campaigns were relatively simple and the targeted demographics were very broad. We would just...
View ArticleNative Advertising on Forbes Magazine Cover – Right Or Wrong?
Image: ForbesAs a consumer I am not a fan of so-called “native” advertising, which are basically advertising pieces that are dressed up to look like editorial content. It’s become a relatively...
View ArticleAdvertising for Arrington
If theres one thing that no business can survive without, it’s customers and if I were a hosting company looking for some big name clients I’d be looking to get sites like TechCrunch on board. I can...
View ArticleThat Crash You Hear Is The Death Of Social Networking
That crash you hear is the death of social networking. Those were the first words out of Sara’s mouth as I read aloud the highlights from the Wall Street Journals “revelations” that Facebook, MySpace,...
View ArticleAfter A Little Crowd Control
I’m constantly amazed by the sheer numbers of people on Twitter that follow you back just to keep you as a number. Yesterday I reduced the number of people that I was following by over a 1000. That...
View ArticleFacebook Ads And Suggestions That Aren’t
Our friend Heather (@Wigenout) pointed us to an image on Facebook yesterday for submission to Daily Shite and while we were checking it out I noticed the advert that you can see on the right hand side...
View ArticleBack Up, Speeding Up And Moving Forward
After a few days of intermittent downtime and extreme frustration, all of our sites are working as they should again. Our web host moved our accounts to new servers in order to improve performance but,...
View ArticleIf buildings could dream – Amazing 3D projection on a building!
I don’t know if this represents what a building would dream about if it could but projections like this are not only amazing art pieces but have a massive future in advertising. The conception of this...
View ArticleAdvertising on Twitter = Sex in Public
There has been a lot of services cropping up lately allowing you to make money off of your Twitter stream by dumping advertising of one form or another into it. I’ve been strongly opposed to this and...
View ArticleFacebook is pimping you (and how to stop it).
Did you know that Facebook is using your profile image to pimp dating services and other adverts to your friends? Neither did I! At least not until Cheryl Smith wrote about what happened to her and her...
View ArticleClearly Google thinks I need religion!
I was just over working on Daily Shite, (one of the pet projects of mine and Sara’s) when I was taken aback by the adverts being displayed on the site. We’re currently using Google AdSense to monetize...
View ArticleIs FAIL Blogs new background advertising a major FAIL?
We’ve been seeing this new style of advertising appearing on a number of sites lately, but it was seeing it on Fail Blog this morning that really set me to thinking about it. Basically what’s going on,...
View ArticleRSS Advertising on blank posts! Sponsored by FAIL!
I’ve got absolutely nothing against advertising appearing at the bottom of posts in RSS feeds (I use them myself), but what really gets me wound up tighter than a homophobes asshole in a gay bar, is...
View ArticleMaybe there was a gas leak during proof reading?
Browsing YouTube a while back I came across this little advert for Bord Gáis Energy (Irish Natural Gas suppliers) and their “Big Switch” campaign to have Irish households switch away from electricity...
View ArticleBuy My Volvo – This Is How An Art Director Sells A Car
Fancy turning crank with a built-in safety bladder. Pelvis straps and an oblong chrome nipple! How could I resist?If I were living in Malmö I might just consider parting with the 7000 Kronor ($1064)...
View ArticleAn Exercise In How Not To Sell Online Advertising Space
This was my “happy face” after the call.If you sell anything, especially in the online advertising space, read the following and learn from it. Never make the mistakes this girl made, not even once!A...
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