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Left wing group Color of Change has announced that 19 more major companies have pulled their advertisements from the Glenn Beck Comedy Hour. OAKLAND, Calif.—ColorOfChange.org has confirmed that 19 new companies whose ads aired recently during Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck program have asked Fox to stop their ads ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fox News, Boycott, Advertising
The Federal Trade Commission has new guidelines that will apply to bloggers who endorse products. An existing FTC rule that states product reviewers must reveal any connection they have with advertisers was extended to bloggers. Companies will often distribute free products to bloggers for their review, and sometimes advertisers ...
Federal Trade Commission, Bloggers, Endorsements, Advertising
Left wing group ColorOfChange.org is reporting that their advertiser boycott has cost Glenn Beck more than 50% of his ad revenue. Estimated advertising revenue [the total amount of advertising money being spent during a block of commercial time for a program] was collected on a week-by-week basis for a ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fox News, Advertising, Boycott
Eleven more major companies have pulled their advertisements from the Glenn Beck Comedy Hour, bringing the total number of advertisers participating in the boycott (organized by left-wing group Color of Change) to 57. OAKLAND, Calif.—Eleven new companies whose ads were recently seen during Beck’s program—Binder & Binder, Capital One, ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fox News, Boycott, Advertising
Color of Change, the left-wing group promoting the advertiser boycott of the Glenn Beck End Times Comedy Hour, announced today that 10 more companies have pulled their advertisements. This brings the total of major companies participating in the shunning to 46. Adding to an increasing list of companies distancing ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fox News, Advertising, Boycott
Sixteen more companies have decided to pull their advertising from the Glenn Beck Comedy Hour, bringing the total to 36. The new companies distancing themselves from Beck include Airware Inc. (makers of Brez anti-snoring aids), Ancestry.com, AT&T, Blaine Labs Inc., Campbell Soup Company, Clorox, Ditech, The Elations Company, Experian ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fox News, Advertising, Boycott
About 20 major companies have now pulled their advertisements from the Glenn Beck Comedy Hour; the latest to bail out is Farmers Insurance. However ... A Fox News spokesperson told the Daily News yesterday that “advertisers referenced have all moved their spots from Beck to other programs on the ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fox News, Advertising, Boycott
We’re trying out an advertising service called Infolinks, which analyzes the page content and creates links in the text that pop up a little dialog box when your mouse hovers over them, containing an advertisement or link to a related site. The dialog box goes away automatically when you move ...
One of the largest producers of TV commercials made this short film in the 1960s, as an in-house joke that probably would have landed them in very hot water if their clients had ever seen it. [Video]
I’ve had serious differences with John Cole of Balloon Juice in the past, and probably will in the future, but in this post on the closing of PJ Media’s ad network he gets it exactly right: The Obligatory PJ Media Post. I understand there is an inordinate amount of ...
You’ve probably heard by now that Pajamas Media is shutting down their advertising network, for a simple reason: it’s losing money. Roger Simon explains that the company is now planning to focus on the PJTV side of the business. There’s a lot of reaction to this announcement among bloggers in ...
Watch out for this attempt to get you to download bad software (“malware”) to your computer; it hijacks banner ads from mostly reputable companies and redirects your browser to a new page: Hackers Use Banner Ads on Major Sites to Hijack Your PC. I’ve seen this at the web site ...
OK, I’ve now seen the world’s worst internet advertising idea. And unfortunately, it’s at the site of a major source for news from the Middle East—Israeli newspaper Haaretz. If you open a window on one of their articles and leave it open for a while (I haven’t checked to see ...