{"id":511,"date":"2005-12-19T13:02:04","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T18:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=511"},"modified":"2005-12-21T09:14:28","modified_gmt":"2005-12-21T14:14:28","slug":"caressing-the-greenback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"Caressing the Greenback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Videogame advertising giant Massive Incorporated has recently released a couple of press releases (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.massiveincorporated.com\/site_network\/pr\/12.18.05.htm\" target=\"blank\">Link to 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massiveincorporated.com\/site_network\/pr\/12.16.05.htm\" target=\"blank\">Link to 2<\/a>) announcing strategic partnerships and network &#8220;inclusions&#8221;; these most recent ones being mentioned over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluesnews.com\/cgi-bin\/board.pl?action=viewthread&#038;threadid=62996\" target=\"blank\">Blue&#8217;s News<\/a>. One interesting comment in these most recent releases is a quote from THQ&#8217;s executive vice president of worldwide publishing, Kelly Flock: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are excited to team with Massive because we believe their network strategy and sensitivity to game play will deliver value to publishers, advertisers and gamers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Sensitivity to game play? Who do they think they&#8217;re kidding here? Oh wait. Maybe forcing gamers to watch things like ads for feminine hygiene products will make both them and the game play more sensitive. I know that if I were camping near a billboard displaying that stuff, I&#8217;d reconsider my actions and log off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Videogame advertising giant Massive Incorporated has recently released a couple of press releases (Link to 1, Link to 2) announcing strategic partnerships and network &#8220;inclusions&#8221;; these most recent ones being mentioned over on Blue&#8217;s News. One interesting comment in these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=511\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}