Coinbase just made its Super Bowl debut with a remarkable clever QR code ad that might have been too popular: the company’s “Less talk, more Bitcoin,” campaign appears to have temporarily knocked out ...

Super Bowl LVI viewers are mostly in agreement about the worst commercial of the night after an “annoying” ad for cryptocurrency showed just a bouncing QR code. During Sunday’s game between the Los ...

YouTube unleashed an influential generation of new internet celebrities in 2007 when it started to share ad revenue with select video creators. For the past couple of years, a snippet of code on ...

The bouncing ad, reminiscent of DVD player logos, allowed viewers to scan the code, taking them to a cryptocurrency website offer. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture ...

Netflix’s upcoming ad-supported tier could have a big drawback — besides the fact that your programming will be interrupted by commercials, that is. One of the streaming service’s more useful features ...

While Coinbase got more than 20 million of you to scan a QR code during the Super Bowl, we don't need advertisers normalizing scammer behaviors. Since my start in 2008, I've covered a wide variety of ...

NEW YORK, March 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Code and Theory, part of Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW), has been named Ad Age's inaugural Business-to-Business Agency of the Year. The only technology and creative ...

During the Pennzoil 400 race on Sunday, Heinz encouraged Nascar and ketchup lovers alike to slow things down. The brand known for its slow-moving bottled ketchup aired a 0.57-second-long ad that, once ...

About 60% of the total loading time of a page was caused by scripts that place adverts or analyse what users do, he found. But using ad-blockers may not be the best way to avoid delays and speed up ...

Coinbase kicked off the Super Bowl ad war among crypto firms with an instantly viral hit. The elegantly simple spot consisted of a QR code bouncing around the screen like a DVD screensaver. The social ...

Crypto exchange Coinbase said it was back up and running after its Super Bowl ad giveaway crashed its website. The Super Bowl LVI ad featured a QR code bouncing around a screen, offering $15 in free ...