An ad for Suboxone (a pharmaceutical medication that helps people get over opoid addictions) appeared on my YouTube video called “Ten Fewer Holiday Things to Stress Over This.”
Targeting or luck?
Why do I have a feeling this blog post is going to attract a lot of spam for Percocet and Oxycontin?
Well I never expected to be anonymous on the web. But I also didn’t expect to be targeted by this Google Adsense advertisement. Hmmm. $1000 a month to blog about my sexual dysfunction? Now there’s some interesting reading.
(This is my video rant on this subject) Note to public relations professions everywhere. Don’t let your company turn into the poster child for copyright insanity. In one of the more tasteless moves yet, the company used an independent film maker’s video on its hopelessly unfunny Web Junk 2.0 show without permission. Then when the…
Madonna aint acting like a virgin on YouTube. While other stars have fumbled in their attempts at the largest online-video site, Madonna gets 5 stars for her homepage video. Why? We imagine this video was featured by the advertising department (likely a paid promotion for her new album “Hard Candy”). And although YouTube editors may not…
I love this post from Engadget. It's about YouTube and its costs and profitability. Engadget estimates that YouTube probably pays about a million a month in broadband. Given that it has recent funding of about $8 million, it's only bought itself the summer to show that it can profit. Engadget traces the history of sites…
We Americans watched nearly 34 billion videos in May, and 14.6 billion (43 percent) were on YouTube. According to comScore (source: TechCrunch), 144.1 million viewers watched an average of 101.2 videos per viewer in May. Hulu ranked second with 3.5 percent share. The gap between Google and Hulu remains strong, and it’s safe to say…
According to eMarketer, Jupiter is cautious about online video advertising near-term’s growth. Jupiter is “advising that online video advertising’s best years may be yet to come, not until 2009 or 2011, when video is expected to become a standard offering of online publishers.” The reason that online video ad revenues are not growing faster, according…
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They figured with all those pageants you have to go to that you must to be medicated!
I swear to God when I first read that I thought it said “Suxabone” and I thought “duh!!”
contact them, see if they will send you sample 😉
I am just amazed that a pharma brand would participate in YouTube videos. Clearly the media agency had some money to burn at the end of the year.