Ads are nasty things that invade our online lives. Before that, ads have been found on literally everything that exists on our planet. From light poles to a human forehead, ads are everywhere — except license plates. A recent bill moving through California lit up the blogosphere with it’s mention of web-enabled license plates dishing out ads 24/7 in order to make up a small fraction of that multi-billion dollar deficit California is looking at. But try as...

If you’ve ever sat and envisioned what the stereotypical “hell” was like, chances are fire, all things red, and horns made up most of it. But little did you know, “Hell” also includes HP and Yahoo. Why you say? Ooooh, only because after a few trial runs, HP and Yahoo have somehow come up with the belief that consumers don’t like and in many cases, actually look forward to ads on their printouts. This new advertising scheme only affects...

Ads are one of those necessary evils in life. They have to be there to give advertisers the false illusion that they actually help drive revenue upwards. At the same time, ads just being there are a nuisance to the human race. So how do you win? By making flash games — great flash games I might add — and then selling ad space on said games. Ya, it’s an old, old advertising medium that often dive bombs into failure time and time again. But...

The Verizon “There’s a map for that” ads have already garnered a couple posts here at Gadgetsteria not only from Verizon’s side of things, but also from AT&T’s as they seek one of their most frivolous lawsuits ever. Hiding under the guise that the ads are misleading is in short, stupid. Verizon edited the ads once with text that read “Network coverage available outside of 3G areas”. How much more dumbed down do you need? ...

This particular article on Alley Insider caught my attention as it’s no surprise in the age of technology, paper/physical news is losing ground to electronic as it’s easier and often free.  What shocked me was the add ratios that Wired had/have.  The picture above shows an older issue (bottom) underneath the newest issue (top).  The difference in size is noticeable.  How many ads did they really have?  Alley Insider reported that Wired’s average...