Google Instant Destroys Brands, Holiday eCommerce to Hit $38.5M

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– How Google Instant can destroy your brand’s reputation. And the steps you can take to avoid this from happening.

– Royal Caribbean has teamed up with Starbucks and DreamWorks with a brand partnership for its newest ship, Allure of the Seas.

– Sarah Jessica Parker has hooked up with Barnes 7 Noble to hype the retailer’s NookColor eReader in a series of commercials which broke this week.

– eMarketer reports holiday ecommerce will hit $38.5 billion this year, up 14.3 percent from 2009.

Seven things you didn’t know display ads could do.

– Tom Hespos says one way to get visitors to embrace advertising on a site is to disclose what the site costs to operate.

– Budweiser commercial gets nasty with cunnilingus joke. Just in time for Movember.

– Hardee’s has posted a collection of images from its various ad campaigns including the famed Paris Hilton Bentley commercial.

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