defamer-ad-dept

Fun With Contextual Advertising: In-House Ads Edition

mark · 10/29/07 11:35AM


Over the weekend, a commenter brought to our attention the suspiciously timely appearance of a Wristcutters: A Love Story ad in our Friday evening post about Owen Wilson's much-hyped, but ultimately disappointing, MySpace interview with pal Wes Anderson. We're sure that the eerie juxtaposition of product with related subject matter was unintentional; while our ad sales team has proven they're capable of surprising us every once in a while, they're not nearly clever enough to orchestrate such a stunt. Probably.