advertising - Web Gangsta - Web Watch https://thewebgangsta.com Web Gangsta - Web Watch takes on pop culture, the web, and other interesting things ...since 1994. Thu, 21 Aug 2014 13:44:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.4 How much would you pay for an ad-free Internet? https://thewebgangsta.com/2014/08/how-much-would-you-pay-for-an-ad-free-internet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-much-would-you-pay-for-an-ad-free-internet Thu, 21 Aug 2014 23:00:05 +0000 http://beta.thewebgangsta.com/?p=7991 Do you use any Ad Block software or have a custom HOSTS file to prevent advertisements from overwhelming your Internet browser? Do you get tired of pop-up, pop-under, fly-by, expanding multimedia ads that hide the content you’re really interested in seeing? Maybe there’s a real answer to the problem instead of fighting the advertisers: JUST […]

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]]> How to opt-out of targeted personalized web banner ads https://thewebgangsta.com/2013/10/how-to-opt-out-of-targeted-personalized-web-banner-ads/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-opt-out-of-targeted-personalized-web-banner-ads Mon, 21 Oct 2013 23:00:05 +0000 http://beta.thewebgangsta.com/?p=6951 So you’re surfing the web without any Ad Block plugin installed in your browser, because you know that Internet content isn’t free. And you’re checking out some site and you see an ad for a product that you recently Googled for.  Or for a website that you visited the other day.  Or for a travel […]

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]]> The Top 100 Global Brands for 2013 https://thewebgangsta.com/2013/10/the-top-100-global-brands-for-2013/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-top-100-global-brands-for-2013 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 23:00:10 +0000 http://beta.thewebgangsta.com/?p=6868 Building a global brand is the ultimate goal of any major business. It’s one thing to be successful on a local or hyperlocal level.  It’s quite another feat to take that same local presence and expand that to a larger stage.  Many have succeeded, but even more have failed at doing so. Global Brand Power: […]

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]]> Cereal is a man’s food – no women allowed https://thewebgangsta.com/2013/09/cereal-is-a-mans-food-no-women-allowed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cereal-is-a-mans-food-no-women-allowed Tue, 03 Sep 2013 23:00:08 +0000 http://beta.thewebgangsta.com/?p=6741 A good bowl of cereal and Saturday morning cartoons were a rite of passage for many growing up in the 70’s and 80’s. Today’s kids don’t know what quality kids-oriented TV programming was, since everything now has to be sanitized to ensure that nothing is directly marketed towards kids. Remember McDonaldland and all the fun […]

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]]> Most Iconic Brands across the US https://thewebgangsta.com/2013/06/most-iconic-brands-across-the-us/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=most-iconic-brands-across-the-us Tue, 25 Jun 2013 23:00:37 +0000 http://beta.thewebgangsta.com/?p=6440 Whenever Web Watch travels around the country, we always try to “go local” whenever possible.  We can eat at an Applebee’s or a McDonald’s almost anywhere… but we’ll go out of our way to chow down at an IN-N-OUT BURGER or grab a beer at the WYNKOOP BREWERY because, well, we can’t get that stuff […]

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]]> What your logo color REALLY means https://thewebgangsta.com/2013/06/what-color-your-logo-is-really-means/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-color-your-logo-is-really-means Sat, 22 Jun 2013 23:00:25 +0000 http://beta.thewebgangsta.com/?p=6419 As Web Watch drives around Suburbia, we can’t help but notice that in strip mall after strip mall, all the signage for the retail stores are almost always the same color: red. There should be a community ordinance about it, but everywhere we look we see red signage. And while we understand why this may […]

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]]> How much money do sign twirlers make? https://thewebgangsta.com/2013/05/how-much-money-do-sign-twirlers-make/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-much-money-do-sign-twirlers-make Thu, 16 May 2013 23:00:51 +0000 http://beta.thewebgangsta.com/?p=6269 You see them everywhere you go as you drive through your local suburbs, cruising by the strip mall shopping center: The sign twirler, sign spinner, human directional sign, sign waver, sign flipper, living sign, or a casual sign holder on a stick .  And you always do the same thing as you drive by:  “hey, […]

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