EP040

EP040 – Advertising at 40
Music provided by: Denis Kreynin https://soundcloud.com/denis-kreynin

Greetings & Banter
Black Friday profits are apparently down $1B since last year According to this Times article.

There’s a lot of money in them thar advertising budgets as seen in this business insider post.

Matt’s favourite Ad is this Canadian Club spot because it only talks to the quality of what’s being sold.

Topic for this week: The annoying, dangerous, and necessary advertisement on the web

Slap that monkey: this YouTube Video shows what the “game” is about if you haven’t seen it before.

how cookies work: A How Stuff Works article that explains how cookies work in-depth, don’t mind the terrible ads…

Is Facebook Secretly Listening to You to Target Ads? facebook snooping… maybe

Large malvertising campaign uses casino sites to unload Angler Exploits – SC Magazine Video ads now being targeted too.

Website The Oatmeal trolls HuffPo over cartoons published without permission | Media | The Guardian I kept saying the register but it was apparently HufPo…

shapelessmass – Blog Archive – Getting sued user hotlink legal threat to copyright holder for images

Microsoft had vulnerabilities in their font library that can be exploited over the web and in fact on !

Large malvertising campaign uses casino sites to unload Angler Exploits – SC Magazine. Note that video ads now being targeted too.

Newspaper’s ongoing search for subscription revenue: from paywalls to micropayments Paywalls might be successful for few but not for most.