But while some of the men served near Mr. Kerry's Swift boat, none in the advertisement served on it.
"Clients visiting yahoo.com received advertisements served by ads.yahoo.com.yahoo.com
Of course, a lot of the information the company has on us all is superficial at best – sure, it might be slightly uncanny to have advertisements served to us that perfectly reflect our taste in music or the TV shows we've discussed online, but it doesn't really say anything very essential about who we are as people.
Other studies indicate that advertisements served in higher positions increase both the click-through and conversion rates [20].
Flash also allows them to serve interactive advertisements, served via VideoEgg (we wrote about their Flash ad product here).
The key to the 15-year-old's success has been a sweet game he called "Flash Empires" and a hefty dose of advertisements served up in part by Mochi Media, the casual gaming industry's emerging broker of advertising.
The advertisements served an additional purpose of priming the market for over-the-counter sales by "getting the story across", as Clive Sinclair put it: "Not that big a proportion do buy on mail order, but they see the ads, and that helps to prepare them for buying when the item appears in the shops".
Cubans pay the equivalent of a few dollars, insert a flash drive into the computer at the back of the stall, and get access to El Paquete — a weekly, one terabyte compilation of popular TV shows, movies, music, computer and phone apps, and advertisements that serves as an offline Netflix, YouTube, Craigslist and more in a country where Internet access is slow and expensive.
Cubans pay the equivalent of a few dollars, insert a flash drive into the computer at the back of the stall, and get access to El Paquete — a weekly, one-terabyte compilation of popular TV shows, movies, music, computer and phone apps, and advertisements that serves as an offline Netflix, YouTube, Craigslist and more in a country where internet access is slow and expensive.
Such advertisement may serve the function of attracting individuals in order to enter into some advantageous interaction (e.g., courtship for reproductive purposes) or of warning or repelling other organisms (aposematic coloration).
