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New TV ad for Thomson Reuters

[I am not paid to run this ad. Just information.]

The new CHANEL N°5 film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet with Audrey Tautou and Travis Davenport.

Old one with Nicole Kidman:

http://www.chaneln5.com/

UK’s Advertising Standards Authority slaps BetFair again —this time, over e-mail ads featuring a young poker player.

UK’s Advertising Standards Authority:
Ad
An e-mail ad for an online poker site showed a photograph of a young woman. Text stated “ONLINE EXPERIENCE IS MEASURED IN GAMES, NOT YEARS. JOIN THE NEW BREED. Annette Obrestad – “ANNETTE_15″.
Issue
1. The complainant objected that the ad was irresponsible, because it might encourage children and young people to gamble.
2. [...]

BetFair has been ordered to drop starting price ad. — Misleading BetFair ads are now banned in the UK.

BetFair has been ordered to drop starting price ad.
Misleading BetFair ads are now banned in the UK.
The UK’s advertising watchdog has ruled against a promotional campaign run by betting exchange Betfair after the company failed to qualify its claims of offering dramatically better starting prices to horse race gamblers.
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Advertising Standards Authority (ASA):
Assessment
Upheld
The ASA noted Betfair’s [...]

Is it right to use children in online gambling promotion?

The Association of Professional Casino Webmasters, or “APCW”, produces a twice-weekly promotional video which reports on news matters relevant to the online gambling industry – see their Perspectives Weekly page on You Tube.
Have a look at the July 17th video and see what you think. It lasts ten minutes.
You can see some select graphics I [...]

RED WIRES = The Economist’s Movie Ad

The Economist’s Movie Ad
On Friday, July 3, 2009, The Economist has launched an ad in movie theaters in the United Kingdom for the first time in seven years.

Other than AdWords, advertising does not work on the Web.

That what I thought when I first read that RickRolling / YouTube story.

How do BetFair market betting to the Internauts?

As you know, Google AdWords and Google AdSense now take gambling ads that target the UK population. Yet, I don’t see that BetFair is advertising on Google Web Search, and I don’t see that many ads from bookmakers or sportbooks. BetFair seems to be relying on search engine optimization (SEO) for its main website and [...]

Hedging your political ads on InTrade or the Iowa Electronic Markets

Centrist Messenger: How it works.
Centrist Messenger will issue a refund of the purchase price of the advertisement, if and only if the single candidate that you selected as being supported by your ad does not win the general presidential election of the United States and the other candidate wins.
About Centrist Messenger – Video @ YouTube

Is NewsFutures the first Western prediction market firm to bring prediction markets to Asia?

Of course, there are prediction market scholars and entrepreneurs in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and India.
But was NewFutures the first Western prediction market company to export its services to Asia? In 2004, NewsFutures got their first Asian client, Dentsu (a large Japanese advertising firm).
Anybody knows of another Western prediction market service provider that has a [...]

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