Thumbs Down On This Ad, Yahoo

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Thursday, March 25th, 2010

I’m no expert on advertising, but this ad being run by Yahoo on Pandora just doesn’t feel right to me. Partly because I don’t want to search for more songs from an artist that I just said I don’t like. But mostly because it’s subliminally connecting a big thumbs down with the Yahoo name and logo.

But hey, they’re keeping Pandora chugging, and that’s a good thing.

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