British Government Halts Facebook Advertising

Filed in archive Soc Network Sites by Mark Brooks on August 8, 2007

THE GUARDIAN - Aug 7 - The British Government's advertising body, the Central Office of Information ( COI), has suspended advertising on all sites where its campaigns could end up on user-generated pages. COI, which has one of the largest advertising budgets in Britain with £22.5m alone spent annually on digital media, has received the assurances necessary to resume advertising from Bebo and MySpace, but not Facebook. FULL ARTICLE @ THE GUARDIAN

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