I was amazed the other day when I went on to one of our competitors site and found graphics that we created right there on their home page! I often Google around to see what people are searching for and how our PPC ads are doing - I noticed that one of our competitors ( videospokespeople.com ) was buying our keyword - Innovate ads - which does not upset me that much - all if fair in love and war right? so I clicked on video spokespeople and was amazed to see graphics that we created from scratch (not clip art ) was on their home page! Our graphics - so I e-mailed the contact “Rohan Williams, Director ” at the site (video spokespeople) here was his response:

I will definitely take a look into it today and remove them. My web guy is on big trouble.

Thanks for the heads up.

I then got another e-mail from Rohan Williams at video spokespeople:

Hello John,

I have discussed this with my webmaster and we have pulled the graphics in question. He apologizes and so do we. We hope to bring professionalism and quality to this young industry, and so far your firm is our only main peer as far as we see so far.

Keep up the good work.

Is that it? is that all that you have to do to get away with stealing someones assets from their site? I am not a big lawyer type of businessman - so I probably will do nothing but warn potential clients of the type of business they are running over there.

So there was no reply to Mr. Rohan at videosokespeople.com - best of luck to them we welcome the competition.

The entire incident made me think - god bless the internet - it’s still the wild wild west!

John Cecil
Innovate Media Group
www.innovateads.com

Wednesday, Jun 20, 2007
“Dr. Evil, Austin Powers’ archrival, had a sidekick named ‘Mini-Me.’ The Romney campaign has ‘Mini-Mitt.’

“A thumb-sized Romney walks onto the home page of the presidential candidate’s Web site, pointing out helpful features before exiting, stage left.”

…

“The overlay is called an ‘iAd,’ which allows a host to superimpose a video message on a Web page, with the goal of increasing interest and user traffic.

“‘We are always looking for new ways to engage voters by incorporating the latest technology in our campaign and discovered the technology during that search,’ said Romney spokesman Kevin Madden.

“The campaign first used an ‘’iAd'’ last month, when Romney was trying to enlist 24,000 new volunteers in a single day.” …

ro see an example go to www.innovateads.com

Irvine, California, February 14, 2007- John Cecil, President of Innovate Media Group, an online media company, is using his knowledge and experience from Yahoo! to offer businesses new technology that delivers interactive streaming video over the web that is 100% borderless.

Innovate Ads www.innovateads.com part of the Innovate Media Group, highlights the latest in streaming video technology is here and the company’s President John Cecil has helped pioneer the newest online products available anywhere.

They include:

• Video based emails
• Borderless streaming video
• Online video ads

Before taking over Innovate Media Group, Cecil attended San Diego State University, receiving his BA in speech, He began his career in the media business selling cable advertising locally for Comcast Cablevision in Southern California. Which led him to jobs with national cable networks: Lifetime, A&E and The History Channel. Cecil then joined the Yahoo! Organization where Cecil gained a wide-range of knowledge and experience in online advertising and promotional business.