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Advertising is a form of communication that attempts to persuade potential customers to purchase a particular brand of product or service.

The blogosphere is a very popular medium for advertisers because of strong demographic data showing a more educated, influential, and affluent audience, scoring much higher than the general internet population. Many advertisers also find tremendous value in the rich contextual content that reaches deep into the long tail of the blogosphere.

Traditional advertising largely focuses on television, radio, cinema, magazines, newspapers, and billboards. Modern forms of advertising, commonly found in social media, focus on creating more genuine and authentic experiences for consumers to participate or interact with particular brand of product or service. Additionally, many bloggers display advertising on their blogs as a means of generating revenue.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “advertising”

• in Blogging
  Blog Focus: YouTube to Charge for Streaming TV?
  It makes a lot of sense that the Google/YouTube brain trust would at least seriously consider ways to beef up its TV offerings. But is charging for streaming content the way to go?
  by ebrage / on Dec 1, 2009
• in Advertising
  TweetMeme, Hub of Retweets, Launches Adtweets
  The concept is to share advertising via their TweetMeme button.
  by aniruddh / on Nov 21, 2009
• in Business
  The New Push-Pull Marketing
  Online, the heavy pitch of push marketing is all but over. For online success, focus instead on educating comsumers through pull marketing.
  by jkvr / on Nov 18, 2009

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