{"id":610868,"date":"2009-12-14T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Google-Chrome-s-New-UK-Newspaper-and-Billboard-Ad-Campaign-129679.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-14T08:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T13:03:00","slug":"google-chromes-new-uk-newspaper-and-billboard-ad-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/610868","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome&#39;s New UK Newspaper and Billboard Ad Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.softpedia.com\/images\/newsrsz\/Google-Chrome-s-New-UK-Newspaper-and-Billboard-Ad-Campaign-2.jpg?w=780\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" \/> There&#8217;s been a lot of hard work put into Google Chrome, and the browser has finally reached a stage where Google is confident it can take over a big share of the market. With beta builds out on all platforms and an extensions gallery now live, it is time for &#8216;stage two&#8217; of the plan when engineers step aside to let the marketing people do their job. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a natural state at Google, one of the most engineering-centered tech company out there, but it&#8217;s one we&#8217;re seeing more often lately. The last time Google did &#8216;real-world&#8217; advertising it promoted Apps its enterprise office and collaboration suite, but now it&#8217;s pushing Chrome, the browser which is becoming increasingly central to the company&#8217;s plans. <\/p>\n<p>The Next Web spotted a couple of ads from Google&#8217;s just launched campaign in the UK and it&#8217;s clear that the company hasn&#8217;t skimped out. It bought a full page ad in a popular, and free, UK daily. The ad itself epitomizes Google, a mostly blank page with a big Chrome logo and the words &ldquo;Chrome by Google &ndash; A fast, new browser. Made for everyone.&rdquo; The ad opens up to reveal a list of some of the browser&#8217;s strong points. Not exactly revolutionary, but pretty much what you&#8217;d expect from Google based on the previous Apps campaign. <\/p>\n<p>The company is also running a b&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Google-Chrome-s-New-UK-Newspaper-and-Billboard-Ad-Campaign-129679.shtml\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of hard work put into Google Chrome, and the browser has finally reached a stage where Google is confident it can take over a big share of the market. With beta builds out on all platforms and an extensions gallery now live, it is time for &#8216;stage two&#8217; of the plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2yUI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}