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News Source: Uinta County News
| 2 months ago
Players of the Xbox 360 game Burnout Paradise, in which gamers race cars in a fantasy urban setting, began reporting sightings of a roadside Obama for President billboard. "Early voting has begun," the advert says alongside a picture of the...
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News Source: Inquirer.net
| 2 months ago
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has made a play for online videogamers, placing campaign advertisements in a series of popular titles from videogame giant Electronic Arts. The ads purchased by the Obama campaign are appearing from...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 2 months ago
Game aficionados have been seeing Coke logos, Budweiser slogans and other ads pop up on the sides of racetracks and basketball stadiums in video games for at least a year or two. But what is new is a political candidate using that tactic as part of...
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News Source: Fox News
| 2 months ago
Drivers of high-performance racing cars were a bit surprised over the weekend to spot roadside billboards with the Illinois senator's familiar face on them and the message "Early Voting Has Begun...Well, these were virtual billboards, on imaginary...
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News Source: Dallas Observer
| 2 months ago
A ground-breaking ad campaign by the Barack Obama campaign appears to be targeting the couch vote: online gamers. The new ads appear on signs and billboards inside 18 online video games — from Madden NFL ’09 to Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock...
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News Source: Miami Herald
| 2 months ago
Too busy playing video games to watch presidential ads on television? Barack Obama has found you, too, by becoming the first presidential candidate to buy ad space inside a game. Nine video games from Electronic Arts Inc., ranging from the extremely...
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News Source: Uinta County News
| 2 months ago
UP News Presidential Campaign Ads Appear in Burnout Paradise Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama takes his campaign to Paradise City...And presidential candidate Barack Obama, at least, seems to think it's a possibility worth pouring money into,...
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News Source: Uinta County News
| 2 months ago
Barack Obama's campaign has again moved into uncharted territory. Video game publisher Electronic Arts confirmed to the gaming blog Gigaom that the campaign bought in-game advertising for the Xbox 360 racing game "Burnout Paradise." The company...
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News Source: The Christian Science Monitor
| 2 months ago
That was likely the scene in one gamer’s living room this week, as he spotted a virtual billboard for the Obama campaign during an online session of the racing game Burnout Paradise on the XBox 360. The spot, first reported Thursday and confirmed...
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News Source: Times Online
| 2 months ago
Barack Obama is overwhelming John McCain in the television advertising war, according to new figures released yesterday, swamping his opponent's efforts in many battleground states as their race enters its final stretch. The rapid intensification of...