AOL buys Bebo for $850 million from Yahoo!
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: March 13th, 2008 Published in: Social Media Marketing, YahooThe BBC are reporting today that Time Warner’s AOL have bought Bebo from Yahoo! for $850 million. Not a bad price tag for a site with 40 million members, but surely Yahoo! could have made better use of the traffic? I would have thought that Bebo would have tied in quite nicely with MyBlogLog.
Perhaps they […]
UK Internet providers team up with Phorm to take a slice of the Internet advertising market
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: March 10th, 2008 Published in: Advertising, Google, Google Adsense, MSN, Marketing, YahooNot sure if this old news or not but interesting all the same if you haven’t read about it yet. The NYTimes reported last month that 3 UK Internet providers (BT, Carphone Warehouse and Virginmedia) are teaming up to offer an advertising alternative to that offered by the big 3 search engines.
The 3 companies have allowed ad […]
b10g looking for PPC specialists…
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: March 3rd, 2008 Published in: PPC, SEO Agencies…and are asking candidates to sell themselves using 95 characters or less! :) Great to see companies taking an interesting approach to recruitment!
I’ve worked with Dave and Paul Carruthers before and they both know their stuff - well worth a look at the job posting if you are looking for work just now. Check their […]
BBPR (Band & Brown) email spamming for Jobsite.co.uk
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: February 18th, 2008 Published in: Humour, Marketing, Public Relations, SpamYeh that’s right. Only a few weeks after Jobsite’s SEO agency were spamming my forums, their PR agency (BBPR.com aka Band & Brown) are now spamming my inbox with emails promoting a new site launch! Lol, seriously!
Yes, that’s only a few weeks when Gary Robinson, Marketing Manager for Jobsite.co.uk came here and said, “[we] by no means […]
Jobsite.co.uk forum spam follow up
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: February 15th, 2008 Published in: Humour, Marketing, Public Relations, Search Engine Optimisation, SpamFollowing on from my post last month about Jobsite.co.uk spamming my forums I thought I would do a little homework on the subject. Some may consider this a pointless exercise, and to a certain extent it is - it won’t change anything - I won’t get back the time I spent deleting their spam and […]
BigMouthMedia - all talk or deserved success?
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: February 6th, 2008 Published in: Branding, Marketing, SEO Agencies, Search Engine OptimisationI’ll kick off things with disclosing that I don’t have a very high opinion of BigMouthMedia. I worked there Jan 2005 - Jan 2006 and left fairly disenchanted with the company having had more than one disagreement with the powers that be about various things and some blog posts which ultimately led to them threatening legal […]
Let’s encourage our children to fall into the debt trap…
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: October 2nd, 2007 Published in: Marketing, Rants n DramaSome things really piss me off and I just added another thing to the list.
Monopoly - targeted at ages 8 and above - have moved away from their classic paper money approach and brought the game up to speed with a credit card style format. That in itself isn’t too bad a thing, although personally […]