2010 has been another vintage year for tech and gadget adverts. We’ve seen everything from imaginary phones to non-existent controllers. Here’s what we think are the best gadget adverts of 2010
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SeeSaw, the on demand online catch-up TV service that streams content through your browser, is going premium from tomorrow. It’ll be available for 99p until the end of the year, and after that, will be £2.99 per month. This goes along with the news that SeeSaw will be introducing Ad Selector, which allows you to pick what type of adverts you’re shown when watching content through SeeSaw. With a premium account you’ll be able to turn off the commercial messages and ads altogether, meaning this is the only online service where you can watch ad-less 4oD and Demand Five.
Out 25 November | 99p-£2.99 pcm | SeeSaw.com
Since Apple put Mac vs PC out to pasture, allowing Mitchell and Webb to go back to making sketch shows that are infinitely less funny than Peep Show and Justin Long to pop up in irksome romantic comedies with Cameron Diaz, there’s been a gap in the market. Thank the gods of advertising then that Amazon has introduced iPad guy and his smug, expensive-sunnies-wearing nemesis Kindle Girl. Once again gadget warfare has a face but does Amazon have the firepower to take on the iPad?
Google Streetview could soon feature ads mapped onto real world posters, billboards and buildings if Google implements a recently granted patent. Read on to find out how Google plans to remake the real world in its own image…
Just imagine… all the fun of Flash adverts right there on your iPhone, but with none of the benefits of having a working implementation of Flash! Thanks to mobile ad specialist Greystripe, what was once the stuff of dreams (just, you know, not our dreams) can become a reality.
Greystripe is offering advertisers the chance to take existing Flash adverts and convert them to an iPhone-compatible format in one of two forms – GS.Impact provides simple Flash-sourced ads while GS.Tailgate allows the creation of Flash minigames and interstitial ads that can be embedded in existing apps and games.
While it is true in a sense that Flash has finally come to the iPhone, it has only done so in a way that is of interest to advertisers – any thought you may have had of playing Tower Defence or other Flash game classics should be put to one side.