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Facebook ventures into Zillow’s territory with targeted real estate advertising

Facebook has launched its first ad product designed specifically for residential real estate brokerages. “Dynamic Ads for Real Estate,” first… Read More

Ad Lightning raises more cash to fuel growth of digital ad quality monitoring service

Programmatic advertising has helped digital marketers and advertisers with automation and scale. But it can also cause headaches for publishers… Read More

Bleacher Report CEO to Facebook: Think hard about what you are doing to the publishing industry

Bleacher Report CEO Dave Finocchio has some advice for Facebook. Speaking at the 2017 GeekWire Sports Tech Summit the co-founder… Read More

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Group targets Amazon’s advertising on Breitbart with new mobile billboard in Seattle

Sleeping Giants, the anonymous group dedicated to getting corporations to pull advertising from right-wing news websites such as Breitbart, is… Read More

eBay

eBay takes a colorful shot at Amazon with new ad urging its users to ‘shop like nobody else’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBcl7oqKtvE&feature=youtu.be&a All of those cardboard boxes from Amazon have eBay dreaming of a more colorful shopping world. And now the… Read More

Zillow ad

New Zillow commercials tug at the heart strings by playing off emotion that goes into ‘Finding Home’

If you think looking for or attempting to buy a home is already an emotional experience, new ads from Zillow… Read More

Report: More than 40% of ads are too big and slowing down your site

Ad quality issues on web pages might be affecting publishers more than they realize. A new report released by Ad… Read More

Shares of Marchex spike 17% after ad analytics company inks cloud partnership with Facebook

Seattle-based marketing company Marchex has had a rough past year. The company’s CEO and board chairman departed last fall after… Read More

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Fewer views online for pre-Super Bowl ads, but a few brands have scored before the game

Brands attempting to make a lasting impression with a Super Bowl ad are turning to some of the tried and true elements… Read More

Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart

T-Mobile rolls out Justin Bieber ad and teases Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart for Super Bowl

T-Mobile has a thing for musical superstars in its commercials. The Bellevue, Wash.-based wireless carrier scored with one of the… Read More

Tostitos bag tells you when you’ve had too much to drink and calls an Uber in Super Bowl campaign

What goes better with a few beers than a bag of chips? Apparently, a bag that can call an Uber… Read More

Google deleted more than 1.7B ‘bad ads’ in 2016 and banned 200 publishers in fake news fight

Google cracked down on bad advertising in 2016, taking down 1.7 billion ads that violated its advertising policies, the company… Read More

Digital advertising company AudienceScience cuts jobs amid shift in business

Digital advertising company AudienceScience is cutting as much as a quarter of its staff, GeekWire has learned. AudienceScience, formerly known as… Read More

T-Mobile fees

Creepy new T-Mobile commercials make me say ‘gross’ every time they air on TV

T-Mobile never really shies from going to the edge when it comes to promoting its wireless service. But perhaps the… Read More

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Ultimate geeks reunite: Watch Napoleon Dynamite and Pedro share tots in new Burger King ad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNSZIEG7gRg Film geeks who love film nerds couldn’t ask for a more delightful cast to celebrate than those who appeared… Read More

Amazon ad

Jeff Bezos tweets his love for touching Amazon ad showing friendship between priest and imam

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos doesn’t tweet a lot, but on Thursday he was moved to share a new television commercial for… Read More

Facebook advertisers can exclude users based on race, sexual orientation, and gender

If you wanted to make a chunk of change selling “Make America Great Again” hats and didn’t think they’d do… Read More

Advertising tech company Adbrain opens Seattle engineering outpost, scoops up Microsoft veterans

Advertising and marketing technology company Adbrain is the latest tech company to open an outpost in Seattle, and it’s already tapping into… Read More

Rivals.com founder James Heckman emerges with new media company theMaven, plans ‘bold’ move to go public

James Heckman is getting the band back together. The Rivals.com founder and former Yahoo executive today announced the formation of… Read More

T-Mobile

Oh, snap! Nicki Minaj ditches the dude who doesn’t have unlimited data in new T-Mobile ad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bd8fOIIxQo Nicki Minaj will not be played by a man who doesn’t have unlimited data. That’s the message in a… Read More

Microsoft goes after Apple again with new ad that takes aim at iPad Pro

It’s been awhile since Microsoft mocked Apple in a commercial, but the Redmond tech giant is back at it again.… Read More

UnitedHealthcare

Watch the ads that are making the biggest impression so far during the Rio Olympics

Who wins in the pool or on the soccer pitch or at the gymnastics venue is all well and good… Read More

Zulily commercial

New Zulily commercials, shot at Seattle headquarters, offer a peek behind the scenes

Seattle-based Zulily is very proud of the in-house work that goes into creating custom imagery and copy for thousands of products in… Read More

T-Mobile success

T-Mobile’s John Legere says carrier is ‘killin’ it’ as CEO touts success and teases new ad for opening of Rio Olympics

T-Mobile CEO John Legere is so stoked about his company’s performance in three new independent studies that he’s taken to… Read More

Muck Foving billboard

If you’re so moved, find out what that ‘Muck Foving’ billboard is all about in Seattle

Well, hello, Dolly. The Seattle-based startup that connects people who have trucks to people who need to move something big has… Read More

Trulia Hammerfy

Stop! Hammer time? Trulia turns to hip-hop icon to help stressed home buyers relax

Screwdriver. Pliers. Power drill. Get real. Homeowners know that the one tool you can’t live without is a hammer — MC… Read More

Shot on iPhone soccer

Apple’s newest ‘Shot on iPhone’ ad showcases ‘the beautiful game’ with beautiful images

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThqAl8EfNGI Apple’s “Shot on iPhone” ad campaign relies on imagery created by users to convey the simplest message possible: it’s pretty… Read More

T-Mobile buys a patch of Olympian Nick Symmonds’ skin for nearly $22K

T-Mobile has some skin in the 2016 Olympic Games — literally. The Bellevue, Wash.-based wireless carrier placed the winning bid… Read More

Flattr Plus

Flattr and Adblock Plus team to create tool that will help users seamlessly pay web publishers

The microdonations service Flattr and the Internet ad blocker Adblock Plus are teaming to create a new tool called Flattr… Read More

Sprint CEO tweets, then pulls, ad calling T-Mobile ‘ghetto’ — and John Legere stays pretty quiet

Sprint has pulled a controversial ad where a woman calls T-Mobile a “ghetto” carrier. The ad, which featured Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure… Read More

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