Google today clarified a change to its ad policies, which have now been updated to include a ban on Google advertisements on any websites that utilize "pop-under" advertisements.
Here's what the source of the discrepancy might be: We have heard that Simply Hired may have started buying a very large number of "pop-under" advertisements from WhenU.
If you upload the first side of your design to their site, but then close the window, Vistaprint may serve you a 'pop-under' advertisement that gives you 20% off your order if you complete the transaction.
The National Republican Congressional Committee has spent well under $1 million on advertisements in House districts, compared with more than $16 million invested in advertising by the House Democrats' campaign committee.
Executives from Disney, DreamWorks SKG, the 20th Century Fox Film unit of the News Corporation and the Warner Brothers unit of Time Warner pledged not to appeal directly to children under 17 in advertisements of R-rated films.
Comparatively, a political action committee that is anti-Prop 1 spent under $100,000 on advertisements opposing the proposition.
Facebook has prohibited the use of fake play buttons in advertisements under its policy against depicting non-existent functionality for a few years, News Feed Product Manager Greg Marra tells me.
There are rules restricting promotion of follow-on milk for older babies, including a ban on references to pregnancy and showing babies under six months in advertisements.
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Gisele's Under Armour advertisement, which pictured her attacking a punch bag while social media commentary blared in the background, was perhaps the most impactful this year.
The beer lobby also successfully opposed a bill to pay for television advertisements combating under-age drinking.
