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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Bing has a long way to go to catch Google, but six months after the site's launch, the numbers show it's heading in the right direction. The question is: Will its gains last once the ubiquitous, $100 million TV and web advertising stops?

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Tim Armstrong has a nice analogy for how the ad business works. Think of it, he says, as marketers driving around the neighborhood in trucks laden with cash, just looking for the right lawn to dump it on.

Creativity and Technology debuted across the Atlantic on Thursday at London's Saatchi Gallery. The event brought together designers, creatives and technologists from agencies like Organic and Crispin Porter & Bogusky to discuss work ranging from Fiat Eco: Drive to Poke London's Baker Tweet, as well as technology's increasing importance in creative departments.

I'd like to hear your nominations for the best mobile applications that empower consumers. I'm not talking about quick-hit mobile campaigns. I mean real applications that are of long-term value to consumers and create loyalty by surrounding people with information.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Marketing experts warned it would happen -- and it did. Suing Verizon over its "Map for That" ad only called attention to the ad and AT&T's weakness.

The International Olympics Committee debuted in the top spot with videos of its athletes issuing unusual challenges to viewers and Weezer nabbed No. 3 with its Snuggie tie-in.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Microbilt's "I Love Local Commercials" campaign dropped into the viral video chart this week, led by a dramatic pitch, created by YouTuber's Rhett & Link, for an Alabama-based mobile-home business.

The internet offers an endless buffet of choices. And that supply of content choices is far outstripping demand (our attention). As a result, each of us is going to have to make choices about what we consume and when. Brands can help.

It seems too many digital marketers are still fixated on acquiring reach through in-your-face marketing such as "road blocks" and "homepage takeovers." We're not respecting our customers' time, which remains static despite the growth of digital destinations.

Sometimes The New York Times' interactive features have been hard to find, which is why we like the Innovation Portfolio, where it's compiled the best of the best in one place.

To launch the Infiniti G convertible, Infiniti tapped into the way people use phones as cameras and married that with the open feeling of driving a convertible, launching an SMS promotion based on its "Own the Sky" integrated campaign.

Yes, there's a bit of a circus going on with real-time search, and a new player seems to appear weekly. Meanwhile, we get predictions of how Google and Bing had better do something soon with it -- or else.

While a plurality of folks ages 12 to 64 say they don't notice either TV or online ads when they are watching TV and on the web, a lot say they do notice.