Twitter has appeared slow in introducing ads, but has also been sensitive to its userbase and explored more imaginative and less intrusive ways of introducing sponsored elements.
The ABC deal with Sears is separate from a venture between ABC and the MindShare division of the WPP Group to develop and produce programming aimed at family viewers that would include sponsored elements like product placements.
Other marketers that are sponsoring elements of Run 10 Feed 10 include Forevermark diamonds, sold by De Beers; the Gap division of Gap Inc.; Starbucks; and Summer's Eve, sold by the C.B. Fleet Company.
Clips, also sponsored, combine elements of commercials and programs.
Also, while the APIs make it technically possible to mash up Yahoo's search results with other results, or tweak them with your own algorithm, Yahoo prohibits developers from using any "non-Yahoo sponsored search elements".
We're at the cusp of a next-generation video offering: YouTube, but with a modern mix of free, paid, and sponsored revenue elements.
"This guy is just a creation of the Qataris and their money, and they are sponsoring the element of Muslim extremism here," another council member from the western region said.
Some of the worst excesses of the recent boom were in effect sponsored by this element in the tax code.
"I think that, we hope to end up with a model where, potentially there could be a cost-per-visit type model where large brands and small brands, as well, could sponsor different elements of the game, with the end of interacting with players and really tapping into that enthusiasm of players," he told the publication in 2014.
"After a careful examination of the trend and character of the spate of insurgency and sectarian violence in the country, the PDP has submitted that these acts of terrorism were being sponsored by unpatriotic elements whose aim is to discredit the person, office and administration of President [Goodluck] Jonathan...We pointedly finger the opposition," Mr Metuh said.
