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Google Kills Yahoo Deal
You know, I was actually looking forward to the Google-Yahoo search ad deal. Becoming an AdSense publisher would have earned Yahoo $800 million a year, unburdened their ad salesforce, and allowed them to focus on what they do best: portals and APIs. With Yahoo laying off ten percent of their workforce, that’s exactly what they need right now: revenue and focus.
Unfortunately for Yahoo, Google just killed the deal. Click here to continue reading “Google Kills Yahoo Deal”…
Wassup Obama?
The 2008 US Presidential election will be the YouTube election. Parody is always hot on YouTube. That’s why this Obama campaign ad, poignantly parodying Budweiser’s classic Wassup ad from eight years ago, is a stroke of pure genius.
This hilarious yet heartwarming spoof has racked up over two million views in its first five days. Fully leveraging the shortform nature of viral video, the ad concisely strikes at multiple hot button issues in a span of just two minutes.
If Obama can run his country as cluefully as he runs his campaign, perhaps America can relax enough to watch a game and have a Bud again. Click here to continue reading “Wassup Obama?”…
