Intentionally or not, big brands help fund fake news sites
Wittingly or not, major global corporations are helping fund sites that traffic in fake news by advertising on them.
Clinton’s spending big on Olympics TVs ads, Trump airs none
The Rio Olympics are in full swing: Michael Phelps is back to winning races in the pool, Simone Biles is running up the score in the gym and Hillary Clinton is advertising with eyes on doing just as well on Election Day.
Democratic advertising blitz awaits Trump
Long before Donald Trump swatted away his Republican presidential rivals, his likely Democratic opponent and her allies began laying traps for him.
Miss. governor up with TV ads, but no air time yet for Dem
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant’s campaign is running its first TV commercials this election season, but a new analysis shows his Democratic challenger, truck driver Robert Gray, hasn’t bought any air time.
Overflowing GOP presidential field has Fox News in demand
It’s the stuff of Republican nightmares: Fox News runs out of advertising time.
Possumhaw: Something to talk about
Remember when “the birds and the bees” was a euphemism for the “facts of life” which was a euphemism for sex?
Some sponsors compose Olympians’ tweets
Between photos and insights about their Olympic experience, some Olympians are turning over their social media accounts to sponsors, agreeing to quotas of postings on Twitter and Facebook and letting other people send commercial messages in their name.
Next up: TV ads just for you, dear voter
The days when political campaigns would try to make inroads with demographic groups such as soccer moms or white working-class voters are gone. Now, the operatives are targeting specific individuals.
City exploring idea of allowing billboards
Although you might not know it by driving down Highway 45, there has been a ban on billboards in the city since 2000.
A committee formed last month made up of three Columbus councilmen, chief operations officer David Armstrong and city attorney Jeff Turnage is reviewing the law and considering the possibility of lifting the ban to allow billboard advertising in the city limits and charge advertisers fees to generate more revenue.
Committees to review billboard law, blight
Advertising on billboard signs in city rights of way is against the law in Columbus, but a committee appointed during Tuesday’s city council meeting will review the code and may suggest lessening restrictions.
Students show their stuff in Dispatch Design An Ad contest
The inaugural Design An Ad contest winners appear in today’s edition of The Dispatch. Complied of hand-drawn and computer generated advertisements, poems and short stories from local students, the young winners did an excellent expressing their creativity.
Ads out of closet, into mainstream with gay themes
A new TV commercial features a good-looking young woman on a beach vacation lounging next to a good-looking young man. He bemoans the glare on his iPad and she fills him in on the Kindle Paperwhite’s sun-friendly screen.
Dispatch wins 13 advertising awards
The Commercial Dispatch advertising department picked up 13 awards at the Mississippi Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest banquet, held Feb. 2 in Jackson.
CVB weary of Legends talk; Sherrod signs on as pitch man
The Columbus-Lowndes Convention and Visitors Bureau has elected a new leader. During Monday’s regular board meeting, Dewitt Hicks was unanimously chosen to serve a one-year term as board chairman. He replaces outgoing chairman George Swales. Hicks, who was appointed to the board by the City of Columbus, urged his board members to work together.
Dispatch brings home advertising awards
The Dispatch advertising staff won multiple awards in the Mississippi Press Association’s 2011 Better Newspaper Contest for Advertising. The awards ceremony was this past Saturday in Jackson. The paper competed with other newspapers with a circulation between 9,000 and 15,000.