While most would expect blog posts along the lines of fabulous holiday destinations, swanky dream villas or travel tips, they scored a massive hit online with their piece on 5 creepy beach sculptures to scare off sunbathers.
It's the Scroogled campaign that paints Google as the creepy guy who stalks you with binoculars and sifts through your underwear drawer, all while setting Microsoft up as the safer, more secure choice.
Lost in the mystery buildup and the privacy/creepy/cool conversations that followed yesterday's big Facebook Graph Search announcement was the ongoing partnership Facebook has with Bing. Bing has been providing Web search results within Facebook...
Next, Facebook introduced the Timeline, which helped users find out more information about a particular person (in a creepy, historical way). Rumors of a Facebook search product have been debated and discussed for a long time.
Instead of being enticing, it's just plain creepy. Using data to retarget Internet users with more relevant ads is growing more popular. And why not? Retargeting makes online advertising more intelligent and efficient, and that means much better...
Many of us may have thought (and hoped) that they had been taken off of the shelves long ago but the creepy, peculiar-looking Furby who made its debut into the toy realm back in 1998 is making a comeback for the holiday season this year.
He suggested three tips for being less creepy: Here are the tips straight from three PPC industry experts. Testing in AdWords Brad Geddes, founder of Certified Knowledge, believes most companies use the wrong numbers in testing, such as CPA...
Just when you thought Facebook couldn't get any more creepy and intrusive, it can now hug you in the street, thanks to a jacket connected to the website that hugs you when you receive a "Like" on your profile.
Google is first rolling this out with their remarketing ads, which is good news for users who find those ads a little creepy. For customers who no longer want to see a certain display ad, [x] marks the spot.
There are also a lot of misleading articles and conversations out there that label remarketing as “creepy. Being a proponent of the GDN, I think this is great. That being said, as I continue to get a peek into new AdWords accounts or through...
Although many tactics of ad retargeting can be regarded as creepy or annoying to visitors if not properly frequency-capped, the results of retargeting can be overwhelmingly effective. Successful retargeting campaigns can often generate a lift of...
Is this a little creepy to anyone? Image via GeekWire Background noise, rain, snow, temperature, humidity, light and other environmental factors could one day affect the Google ads you see. Google just received a patent for “advertising based on...
Facebook ads can be horrible, awesome and (sometimes) downright perplexing or creepy, whether due to targeting, images, headlines, or body copy. From icky peccadilloes to obvious winners, this post shares eye-catching Facebook ads from the last few...
It's a little creepy, but it's coming and I don't think there is much we can do to stop it. Facebook is in the process of testing a new logout screen page ad unit. When you logout of your Facebook account you could be greeted with a full recreation...
In the previous context, Google wants to give us the most relevant results possible even if it is a little creepy. Personalization is here! Wait, it was kind of already here, so now is it “totally” here?
In a final display of weird and creepy that makes one wonder whether Hangouts with people we should take seriously are really such a great idea, Google chose to stream in an Obama impersonator to ask about the effects of comedy sketches on...
Will Google Cross the (Creepy) Line? Creepy? But this is from a company that, according to Schmidt, “is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it. Perhaps the real creepy factor you should be worried about is Google’s growing relationship...
If you thought today's Google Doodle looked a little creepy or kooky or even mysterious and spooky, you would be right. The cartoonist who created The Addams Family has been honored with a Google Doodle on what would have been his 100th birthday.
Creepy. Google’s Bradley Horowitz responded to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent verbal jab that Google is just “building their own little Facebook” in a Bloomberg.com interview. Meanwhile, Zuckerberg stopped by the Charlie Rose show to make a...
I hear more and more people talking about how creepy it is having ads following them everywhere they go and, at times, I admit it feels like certain companies might actually be stalking me on my daily web browsing.
