http://www.adrants.com/ Marketing, Advertising and Social Media News With Attitude by Steve Hall en-us 2009-09-03T11:50:00-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2009/09/its-a-microsite-its-a-facebook-app.php Help Andy Murray hit the ball at Radical Messenger. After you sign it first and send it to a friend of course. I think we need a name for the hybrid Facebook-microsite app thing. ]]> Desktop 2009-09-03T11:50:00-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2009/05/facebook-causes-adultery-sprint-saves.php In Indonesia, Facebook leads to adultery.]]> Social 2009-05-29T12:47:39-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2009/04/because-advertising-never-happens-in.php As tipster Zeke suggested, asking ad people if they know cool strikes me as a good hook. I agree. So what's the problem I have with Little Black Book, a city and resources guide for creative folk?]]> 2009-04-23T17:56:00-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2009/01/crayons-attack-500-computer-monitors-at.php If you arrived at work in the morning to find your computer monitor scribbled all over with crayon would you:]]> Agencies 2009-01-21T12:40:14-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2007/11/yahoo-to-serve-ads-in-adobe-pdf.php Just when you think every available space has been filled with ads, yet another one pops up. Just when you think every available space has been filled with ads, yet another one pops up. Just when you think every... Desktop 2007-11-29T11:01:02-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2006/10/1click-answers-bubbles-up-info-ads.php We are no fans of in-text advertising from the likes of IntelliTXT and others but this new offering from Microsoft and Answers.com, 1-Click Answers, is user initiated and offers more than just advertising. With 1-Click Answers, which is a... Online 2006-10-19T09:16:42-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2006/07/journalist-still-loves-desktop-billboard.php Tessa Wegert is at it again trying to convince us that people want to see ads on their desktops and that AdDiem's Digital Billboard, a company she wrote about last week that serves content and ads to a person's... Bad 2006-07-06T12:14:20-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2006/06/desktop-billboard-company-thinks-people.php OK, aside from the fact it's Pointcast all over again, why in the word would any sane human download a piece of software that seems, apparently, only to deliver billboard ads to your desktop? We're have a group head... Bad 2006-06-29T13:32:09-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2006/06/pepsi-mydadada-designers-make-site-too.php You know, all you designers really ought to be testing your Flashtastic creations on a "normal" computer with the cache turned off. After all, most people who will visit your site won't have reloaded the thing a million times... Bad 2006-06-14T10:57:18-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2006/06/sasquatch-found-in-beef-jerky-promotion.php That Sasquatch just won't die. This time, he's alive and well for a Jack Link's Beef Jerky campaign that involves four TV spots, and online site and...please tell us this is going to stop soon...a MySpace profile.... Good 2006-06-12T14:04:34-05:00