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Nothing lights up a child or adult like a parade balloon. The colors, shapes and varieties are endless … and so are the happy emotions when anyone sees a balloon float by. Regardless of size, a parade balloon creates an atmosphere of joy and excitement in everyone who sees it. Balloons make excellent attention-getters for companies, groups and anyone else who wants to attract attention to their message.

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Designs of parade balloons are as varied as the balloons themselves. Cartoon characters, space vehicles, toys, sports equipment, Big Foot and everything else from Amazon women to zebras have been floating in the air all over the world. And they’re not limited to being used in parades. A parade balloon can open up a new supermarket or car dealership, welcome guests to a retreat or conference, or just spice up a company picnic or sorority dance. The places to use balloons and the way to use them are also just as infinite.

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Small businesses announcing a location, corporations launching a new product or breakthrough idea and elementary schools getting the kids excited for Halloween all use parade balloons to generate attention, thrills and fun.

Parade balloons vary greatly in size, from small 5 cubic foot floaters to giant 60 foot long monsters, only the creator’s imagination limits what can be done. Costs to produce parade balloons depend on the size and complexity of the project, ranging from a few hundred dollars to tens of thousands of dollars. Some parade balloons can be rented for special events, with costs starting below $500 all the way up to $10,000 or more. A lot depends on the amount of helium required to fill the balloon as well as where and how long it is going to be displayed. Handlers for the balloons are an important part of the cost picture and as the size increases, so does the costs for handlers.

As advertising media, parade balloons are unsurpassed in getting and holding the public’s attention. The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is a testament to the importance and enjoyment we place upon seeing these lighter-than-air delights.

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Burger King Puts Puts Ads On Digg’s Empty Searches

As promised, Burger King is now running ads on Digg’s search pages that return no results. Pretty cool, although not as cool as ASCII images in Digg’s source code for Inferno.

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I’m reading The Advertising Research Handbook.

CAPTCHA Advertising Closer to Reality

Two enterprising dudes from Germany are trying to patent CAPTCHA advertising, with a twist: the CAPTCHA message will be contained in a video ad. “User needs to pay close attention to the advertising video clip in order to gain access to the requested content. This way, the user cannot use advertising blocking programs, close the advertising or ignore the advertising, if the user wants to gain access to the requested content.”

They look pretty serious about it, too — this website must be theirs. Stateside, they will be competing with  adcaptcher.com and adscaptcha.com.  And with Microsoft, for that matter, who has submitted a similar patent application last year.

But ha!  Five years too late, I say. How about some well-documented prior art? Not to mention an existing working WordPress plugin or an actual product?

[And check this out: the website where I found the first patent adds a link to itself to your clipboard as you right-click/copy the text, at least in Chrome. Nifty.]

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I’m reading The Advertising Research Handbook.

Hey, @PeterKim – Have You Seen This?

Not only can you add hashtags to your blog headlines, you can also add @’s, and that, too, will get picked up by aggregators like this one (or, if you have an RSS-to-Twitter set-up, that).  Which gives you an interesting new way to pitch your blog post to someone you want to read it; in my case, Peter Kim, the managing director over at Dachis (hi, Peter).

Addressable blogging, so to speak.

Hope I haven’t just put a nuclear suitcase into the hands of the dark side of the Make Money Online crowd.

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I’m reading The Advertising Research Handbook.