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Palin Prattle, Good or Bad, Commands Web Traffic

ABC's interview with Republican vice-presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin was broadcast for two nights across five ABC shows, from "Good Morning America" to "20/20." By ABC's unofficial count, 35 million people have seen parts of the interview from these broadcasts, reports Silicon Alley Insider, via Nielsen, which counts unduplicated viewers within shows but not betwee  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 17th 2008

Colbert Adds Another Juggler to '08 Election Menagerie

The online circus revolving around the 2008 elections grows ever more spectacular with the help of Stephen Colbert, who appeared as a guest columnist for The New York Times' Maureen Dowd, shortly after he called the paper "kindling." In addition to jocular r  [...]
Posted: Monday, October 15th 2007

College Students Politically, Socially Aware; Name 'Most Socially Responsible' Brands

The current college class (students 18-30 years of age) is flexing muscles, not only in terms of size and purchasing power, but also striving for change in political direction and corporate social responsibility. This is according to the findings of Alloy Media + Marketing's 2007 Alloy College Explorer survey, powered by Har  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 11th 2007

Coulter's Edwards Slur Causes Advertiser Backlash

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter's recent derogatory remarks against Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards (she implied he was a "faggot") have led to advertisers' backing away from buying space on the conservative columnists' website. Advertisers began jumping from Coulter's site after liberal blog Daily Kos  [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 8th 2007

Anarchist Hippies Claim Attack on John Edwards Second Life HQ

The virtual terrorists who stormed the John Edwards Second Life campaign headquarters identified themselves as a longstanding Second Life "invasion group" called "Patriotic Nigras: e-terrorists at large," reports 10 Zen Monkeys. The group posted the claim on John Edwards' campaign blog, saying they vandalized the campaign HQ "for the lulz." The person who posted the claim,  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 7th 2007

Racist-Marxist-Neocons Vandalize John Edwards Second Life HQ

Second Life has been hit by one of its first instances of political vandalism, with John Edwards's virtual campaign headquarters defaced by apparent supporters of George W. Bush, according to blogger Lyndsay Beyerstein (via Pandagon). The vandalism inclu  [...]
Posted: Monday, March 5th 2007

Honda Licenses JibJab Video for Presidents' Day Ad Campaign

For the first time, JibJab is licensing one of its popular online skits for use in a Presidents' Day ad campaign, partnering with the New York and Long-Island Honda Dealers Association for a two-week broadcast and online promotion, MediaPost reports.  The spots feature visuals from the "Presidents' Rap" video (AKA "Founding Fathers") - but wi  [...]
Posted: Monday, February 12th 2007

More Fake Wal-Mart Blogs, Edelman Fesses up

PR firm Edelman, which after a fake-blog scandal last week promised to be more open in its dealings, on Thursday admitted it is behind two other fake blogs created for client Wal-Mart. One blog appears is on the site of Working Families for Wal-Mart, the "astroturf" advocacy group formed by Edelman last December, writes MediaPost. More intriguingly, however, the second fake blog is  [...]
Posted: Friday, October 20th 2006

YouTube Deals with Censorship, Dueling Bloggers

YouTube recently began cracking down on questionable content in an attempt to appease advertisers, but now the video-sharing site is incurring the wrath of bloggers who think it may be going too far. YouTube allows users to flag videos that they feel are inappropriate and bring them to the attention of the video-sharing site for possible removal. Recently, YouTube deleted a video from political blogger Michelle Malkin, although the video had been on the site for some time, the New Y  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 10th 2006

The Internet Revolution and China's New Gang of Four

Cisco Systems, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo officials were grilled yesterday during a Congressional hearing for their role in helping the Chinese authorities keep a tight lid on the internet revolution that's coming to a boil in a market with vast potential for serving up plenty of corporate profits. The chairman of a House subcommittee dealing with human rights and international operations, Christopher Smith (R-NJ), called it a "sickening collaboration" that was "decapitating the voice of the d  [...]
Posted: Thursday, February 16th 2006

New JibJab Video '2-0-5' Is Year-End Round-up

'Half of Europe Hates my guts...' Gregg and Evan Spiridellis's latest online animated jab, titled "2-0-5!" - once again aimed at at P  [...]
Posted: Friday, December 16th 2005

Delaware Court Protects Blogger Anonymity

The Delaware Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that if an elected official who claims that he has been defamed by an anonymous blogger cannot use a lawsuit to reveal the identity of that writer unless there is substantial evidence to prove the claim of defamation, reports the New York Times. That standard "will more appropriately protect against the chilling effect on anonymous First Amendment Internet speech that can arise when   [...]
Posted: Thursday, October 6th 2005

Senator Targets Nielsen, Wants to Regulate Ratings

Murdoch, victim of discrimation Apparently unhappy with the lighter touch of the invisible hand of self-regulating markets, Senator Conrad Burns, Republican of Montana, last week announced a more heavy-handed approach, vowing to make the federal government an arbiter of media ratings,   [...]
Posted: Monday, August 1st 2005

JibJab Founder: Email List Root of First Viral Success

Gregg Spiridellis answered MarketingVOX questions recently, addressing the fickle nature of "viralness," and the ability of marketers to capture the qualities that make some content desirable and even the sort of thing people which to pass along to friends. MV: Brand marketers are captivated today by the idea of doing something funny or lurid or otherwise making ads  [...]
Posted: Monday, May 23rd 2005

News Corp Continues Tilt Against Nielsen's New Measurements

Rupert Murdoch,discrimation victimNews Corp. said it intends to ratchet up its lobbying efforts against Nielsen's local people meters, media measurement systems that more accurately measure individ  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 12th 2005

Google Responds to French Fears of Digitized Library

In an otherwise completely derivative piece, The New York Times managed to eke out a response from Google on the ginning up of nationalist pique at the idea that the "Anglo" Google might become the arbiter of what gets published in its massive Google Print project. Said a European G  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 12th 2005

FEC Mulls Rules on Regulating Blogs

E-Commerce Times covers the continuing debate over how much websites - especially blogs - should be considered campaign media activities, subject to the Federal Election Commissions rules and limitations. As the comment period begins on proposed rules, the debate is fully engaged. Separately, in a forum sponsored by the Pew Center broadcast on CSPAN on  [...]
Posted: Monday, April 4th 2005

Russian Communists Take to Mobile Marketing

It's not necessarily a sign of strength that some companies turn to innovative marketing techniques. The automaker that made the biggest strategic commitment to online marketing, Mitsubishi, turned out to have enormous financial and management problems. Its business has tanked. Likewise it is of ambiguous bragging rights that the Russian Communist Party has turned to mobi  [...]
Posted: Monday, March 14th 2005

Republicans on FEC: Blogs May Be Regulated

Federal Election Commissioner Bradley Smith stirred the blog pot by suggesting that blogs might be treated very differently in the next elections, according to CNET. The FEC opted not to regulate internet coverage of the election in a 2002 decision, but Smith and two fellow Republican commissioners say that this may be revisited. Oddly, Smith suggested that writing about can  [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 3rd 2005

New JibJab Parody via Yahoo

JibJab took advantage of both its new relationship with Yahoo and the publicity around yesterday's sparkling Yahoo financial announcements to launch its latest Flash animation "Second Term!". Its animations have moved from relatively obscure viral efforts to planned and published offerings of content announced to the world press. Unfortunately, the Yahoo relationship doesn't se  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 19th 2005