Archive for July, 2009
Friday, July 31st, 2009
Shoppes at Wyomissing can flash electronic messages, zoners rule.
Mark Pottschmidt, Stanbury Wyomissing LLC, said the changing messages will offer directions to the shopping center and advertise the businesses there. Pottschmidt also wanted to use the signs for community announcements, but the zoners frowned on that. Board Chairman David Rothermel said ...
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
Sofialys outlines mobile advertising expansion plans.
French mobile advertising provider Sofialys is to head to the VC market to raise funds for future expansion, business development director Julien Oudart said. The company, which has 30 employees and provides opt-in direct marketing mobile ads and messaging, has been funded from its own ...
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
Can"t find a full-time writing job? Join the swelling ranks of.
Members pay $150 annually to post profiles for potential employers to peruse, attend monthly networking sessions, and advertise their specialty, whether it"s travel, advertising or medical writing. The Chicago Headline Club, a networking organization for reporters and the largest chapter ...
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
"District 9" bus-stop ads create a stir.
'The billboards, benches and Web sites are a great way to advertise movies, because it gets people talking,' explained Nick Butler, editor in chief of Movie-Viral.com, which has been following the film"s promotions for nearly a year. 'What we see with 'District ...
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Nick Ferrari quits show on Iran-funded Press TV channel.
Transport for London has said it will refer any future Press TV ad campaigns to the Committee for Advertising Practice to make sure copy does not breach the advertising code. * To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email ...
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
You write, I write: All together now, we hate pill commercials.
I understand the need to advertise. But, for instance, how do the Pepto people think their ad where the people hold their stomachs, then their rear ends while someone sings, 'Indigestion, diarrhea ...!' is going to make me want to ...
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Texas County Promotes Emergency Preparedness With Electronic.
To promote emergency preparedness information, in Texas, the Jefferson County Office of Emergency Management (OEM) purchased advertising on electronic billboards throughout the county. The OEM promotes information like the days remaining in hurricane season and Web sites residents can visit for emergency planning information, ...
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
DDS Wireless Signs Advertising Deal for New York Mobile Media Service.
The agreement provides for a potential $1 million in minimum fees to DDS over a 2 year period and further potential fees based on advertising billings achieved by TVG. TVG, a small entrepreneurial company must be approved as a sub-contractor ...
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Forbes honors Pure Michigan ads.
For each dollar Michigan spent on out-of-state advertising from 2004 through 2008, new visits to Michigan stimulated by that advertising created more than $40 of spending at Michigan businesses and generated $2.86 in new state tax collections, according to studies done for Travel Michigan, a division ...
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
Kildare charity helps to save Bosnian womens" organs.
Last November, Mostar woman Janja Papic and her daughter in law Dijana, placed an advertisement in a Sarajevo newspaper offering to sell a kidney each. The women need the money to provide housing and food for themselves and their husbands, who were b ...
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