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Remember the iPhone contextual ad yesterday that nudged the early adopters? Turns out the ad wasn't from Apple at all. It was from some guy from didntyouhear.com.
After seeing the Nokia ad—which WAS from Nokia—he decided to make a fake one, which caught Apple's eye. Long story short, Apple called Commission Junction, who told this guy to take it down. We should have checked the original story more, instead of assuming that because it forwarded to the Apple store, it was an ad from Apple. We'll do better next time! [Didn't You Hear]
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Too funny.
some fool actually paid for this?
Did actually some one believed it came from Apple???
I Never saw apple using google Ad for advertising campaing.
but the nokia ad was funny.
Good stuff. Figured this wasn't legitimately from Apple, but it was still hilarious.
Did actually some one think it came from Apple??
I mean we never saw Apple using Google ad's, What, made we think they start now after they hold their key-note, that was covered by media world-wide.
Duh?
could have told you that yesterday.
Steve is cocky, but not a dumbass.
And now he'll get lots of FREE advertising from sites like this...
The ad wasn't "fake," per se. Commission Junction runs Apple's affiliate program and the guy at DYH is (was, now) an affiliate of Apple.
Please forgive this test. My comments never show up, so I'm wondering if it's a Safari issue. Thus, I'm entering this in Camino. And if it does show up, then all of you can claim the reason my comments don't show up is because I enter such useless commentary.
i'm sure the ad was an accurate depiction.
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