SF Politics Daniel Lurie Campaign Paying Google to Run Fake, Anti-Mark Farrell Headlines on Real News Articles The latest skullduggery in the SF mayor’s race has Google search results for Mark Farrell that make it look like prominent local publications ran headlines declaring “Don’t Trust Mark Farrell.” But the headlines are fake, and the Lurie campaign appears to be paying Google to manipulate them.
SF News Tragic Ads Attempt To Glorify Desperate Hell Of Gig Economy The "gig economy" is literally killing us.Most depressing ad of the day goes to: @fiverr 🙃 pic.twitter.com/xq0sxsL55t— it's B! Cavello ✊️ (@b_cavello) March 9, 2017 Hustlers and freelancers in the
SF News Facebook Knows Your Race, Sends You Targeted Ads It's a tale of two trailers, as Business Insider juxtaposes them. Both are for Straight Outta Compton, but one is for audiences presumed familiar with NWA and one is for audiences who presumably
SF News Twitter Evokes Dot-Bomb Memories With Pricey World Series Ad Campaign Hey, guys, remember the halcyon days of January, 2000, when a bunch of dot com companies dropped scads of money on commercials that would run during the Super Bowl? One current-day dot com
Arts & Entertainment 10 Great Perfume Ads (Plus One Of The All-Time Worst) In honor of tomorrow's SF Artisan Fragrance Salon—as well as Barbara Herman, author of Scent and Subversion: Decoding a Century of Provocative Perfume and vintage perfume blogger at YesterdaysPerfume.com, and her
SF News Twitter Wants To Run More Video Ads Twitter is racing — racing! — to bring more video advertising to the site. The San Francisco-based company is reportedly in talks with NBC and Viacom to add even more TV content to your favorite
SF News Student Accused Of Staging Fake UCSC Rape Attack Through Craigslist You recall the fake rape report that went down in February at UC Santa Cruz, right? Well, the suspect in question, oddly described by NY Daily News as a "visiting brunette" from UC
SF News 'Killing Jews Is Worship' Muni Ads Spark Controversy New ads adorning ten of the city's buses are causing a stir for their anti-Islamic rhetoric and sparking a hate speech vs. free speech debate that's got Muni parked in the crossfire. The
Arts & Entertainment Today In Jarring Craigslist Rental Ads: $1,000 For 80 Square Feet In Bro Pad Further proof that the Mission needs an abortion: this Craigslist ad seeks a roommate to pay a whopping $1,000 for an 80-square-foot room inside an apartment with four other "grown-ass men" working
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zaddie, The 'Mona Lisa' Of Avocados, For Only $10 Not sure if this is parody or not (we're leaning toward the former, obviously), but we a) love avocados and b) love anything involving a massive bottle of Squirt. And with that, we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Frjtz Uses Pepper-Spray Cop Meme To Sell Hot Sauce Instagram proved very popular over the Thanksgiving holiday. But while you were snapping pics of pumpkin pie and fall-themed manicures, kdotcdott posted a shot of a flier found at a San Francisco Frjtz
Arts & Entertainment Photo: 'Underwear Bomber' Article Meets Unfortunate Ad Placement Today's print edition of The Chronicle features a story about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, sentenced to life in prison for attempting to bomb a Northwest Airlines plane on Christmas Day 2009 with explosives tucked
SF News 'No Bipolars' Ad Agency Makes Stunning Turnaround In Job Ad Controversy Earlier this month, we brought your attention to local ad agency Palmer Advertising's Craigslist ad. The advertisement seeking a print/web designer caused a stir since it mentioned that, however humorously intended, those
SF News San Francisco Ad Agency Won't Hire Bipolars A friendly reminder that, according to ADA laws, discriminating against a candidate or employee based on their mental health is illegal. Which is why, however tongue-in-cheek, San Francisco-based ad agency Palmer Advertising's Craigslist
SF News Attack Ad: Christmas-Loving Rick Perry Ashamed Of U.S. Military Speaking of sanity-estranged, plummeting GOP candidate Rick Perry released an anti-gay television ad today, one that lambastes our country's military while claiming that our children cannot celebrate Christmas in school (which is a
SF News Barrage of Game-Promotion Ballons and Fliers Pollute San Francisco [UPDATES] Why were there so many red balloons floating around downtown San Francisco today? Well, someone thought it would be a great (albeit pollutive and thoughtless) way to hawk a new video game. We
SF News Best Campaign Poster of the Election Season As The Tenderloin Geographic Society dutifully points out, "Playing the puppy card, [Dean] Clark cinches the eight-year-old vote and refuses to kowtow to the Cat Fancy constituency." And how. The D6 supervisor candidate
SF News South Carolina Attorney General Gives Craigslist Until 5 p.m. to Remove 'Erotic Services' Oh, this is adorable. After Craigslist (sort of) agreed to remove the ads, South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster has given Craigslist until 5 p.m. today to remove their 'erotic services' section.
SF News Anti-Gay Ad Auditions Uncovered Sure, it's preposterous. Amazing in its unbelievability. But the National Organization for Marriage (a truly vile organization) is something to take notice of, because people believe this shit -- powerful people; people you
SF News New Ads Ask: Why Islam? Baghdad by the Bay, indeed. But in all seriousness, the site is actually interesting. Check it out.
misc Donations to Yes-On-8 are Accidentally Going to Tasteful Gay Erotica Update: Complaints about the content of ads can be sent to Google here. The "people" behind Prop 8 -- the anti-marriage amendment -- may or may not be up to something sneaky. We
misc Princess Gloves Come off in No On 8 Fight The letter does not appear to be available online in text format -- only as a PDF that's missing its extension. So we've had to transcribe the good bits. "The advertisement strongly implies
misc SFist Watches: The Superbowl Ads We found it difficult to tear ourselves away from the "Puppy Bowl" and turn the channel to the Superbowl, but since we were going to skip through all that boring game stuff and
