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This Person Earns $400 Per Second Making Vine Ads
Sam Biddle · 07/22/13 03:25PMTumblr CEO David Karp: Ads Will Make Tumblr “Better”
Sam Biddle · 07/16/13 03:01PMOnly three short, sweet years ago, David Karp was just another dreamy eyed dropout sitting atop a billion dollar idea. He wore a lot of plaid. He told the L.A. Times that the concept of advertising "really turns our stomachs." Today, he's on the beach, saying the best part of Vogue is the ads. David.
MySpace Still Has Enough Money for This $20 Million TV Ad
Sam Biddle · 06/13/13 08:48AMHere's How Facebook Will Invade Your TV with Product Placement
Sam Biddle · 05/28/13 02:33PMFacebook's TV ads are still young, experimental, and a bit strange. But not for long: the site is launching an old-school product-placement campaign to buy its way onto your favorite television show. Or at least VH1's "Best Week Ever." We got our hands on internal emails and draft scripts showing how Zuckerberg intends to surreptitiously infiltrate your living room through sketch comedy.
Tumblr Has No Idea How to Handle Porn
Sam Biddle · 05/22/13 12:44PMYahoo's Big Plan to Become Cool with Kids: Billboards
Sam Biddle · 05/15/13 08:51AMHere Is How Foursquare Plans On Turning Your Life Into Ads
Nitasha Tiku · 04/29/13 01:23PMOn stage at TechCrunch Disrupt earlier today (RIP, Sam Biddle's press credentials!) Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley acknowledged the haters, before offering a confident dismissal: "I think there are a lot of people that think we don’t know how to generate revenue, that we aren’t generating revenue. This is wrong," he said. An internal Foursquare document obtained by Valleywag shows some of the new ways Foursquare is trying to make money: Tell advertisers where you've been.