BBC’s iPlayer has been a huge success since its release. It’s the answer for any television schedule problem. “Oh Sh** I’ve forgotten to watch …” “Don’t worry it will be on iPlayer.” It’s a fantastic tool for catching up with TV and entertaining licence-fee dodgers, but it’s also got another use and the BBC has [...]

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Google’s main source of revenue is their AdWords advertising product. (According to Wiki) last year it brought them a staggering $23 billion. That’s how much Facebook is currently valued at. Now ad Age  has obtained an internal Google document that shows some of the biggest AdWords buyers for the month of June 2010, offering an [...]

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Google has rolled-out mobile advertising for YouTube in a bit to raise funds from the popular, but financially-floundering site. The move follows YouTube’s recent launch of pre-roll ads at the start of its videos. The pre-roll ads are skippable, but that doesn’t mean they’re not annoying. The new mobile ads seem unobtrusive enough as a [...]

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Apple has started to air two new “Get A Mac” ads featuring Justin Long as “Mac” and John Hodgeman as “PC”. They have continued to target Microsoft’s aggressive Laptop Hunter ads which focused solely on Mac’s higher pricing than comparably equipped PC’s. One of the new ads called “Top of the Line”  features famous actor [...]

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