« Teenagers fuelling mobile social networking boom | Main | Interview: Nokia's Kaj Haggman on how they're putting Web 2.0 widgets on your mobile phone »

Just Billiam

When online marketing goes wrong. I just saw a Google ad pop up at the top of the screen while using Gmail, saying "BILLIAM - www.billiamuk.com - Official website of the UK's top new boyband!"

The name sounds rubbish. And I'm not exactly champing at the bit to hear them. But I was curious, so clicked on the link. Only to reach an Error 400 page saying "FORBIDDEN. You tried to access a document for which you don't have privileges."

Am I officially too old to be allowed into boy-band websites now? Or is this an example of someone's online ad campaign jumping the gun just a tad earlier than the web designers were expecting?

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://shinymedia.headshift.com/cgi-bin/mtshiny/mt-tb.cgi/30860

Post a comment

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)

About

This page contains a single entry from the blog posted on December 15, 2006 2:49 PM.

The previous post in this blog was Teenagers fuelling mobile social networking boom.

The next post in this blog is Interview: Nokia's Kaj Haggman on how they're putting Web 2.0 widgets on your mobile phone.

Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives.

Powered by
Movable Type 3.33