Companies Turn to Games to Pitch Their Products (NY Times)
Dodge Speedway is one of a new genre of computer games as advertising vehicles. Born of desperation and ingenuity, advergames, as they are called by marketers, are emerging at a time when web surfers largely ignore more conventional forms of advertising.
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