Media Buying Adwords On News Events

from the advertising-the-news? dept

We were just talking about how people were buying up Google Adwords on their own name, and here's another example of how Adwords are being used in different ways than you might expect. Apparently, the BBC has been buying up Adwords related to certain hot news topics, so that anyone searching on those terms will be directed to their news coverage.

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