Google Shuts Down Scamp, UK's Most Popular Advertising Blog

Guardian:

The UK's most popular advertising industry blog, Scamp, has been shut down by Google for breaching the conditions of its blogging platform, Blogger.

Scamp, written by Bartle Bogle Hegarty creative director Simon Veksner, is hugely popular in the UK ad industry, often drawing hundreds of comments per post from disgruntled advertising executives.

Visitors to Scamp are currently blocked from accessing posts with the message that it is in "violation of Blogger's terms of service".

"Google have shut me down, and they haven't even given a reason yet," said Veksner. "I am trying to get them to respond but no joy so far. It is all very worrying."

Veksner added that he believed that Scamp may have been blocked by Google due to an official complaint about content posted on the blog.

Read the whole story: Guardian

Comments

[MadOzbo]

Exactly!
If he is THAT popular in the UK, he should certainly be able to use a 3rd party application and stop using a "community" blogging server like Blogger.

[krisis]

There isn't a single reason for a serious, business-oriented blog with those demographics to not only be dependent on Blogger for content management, but to also rely on BlogSpot for hosting. Maybe in 2003, but not today! If their outage is such a phenomenon that it requires media coverage then surely they have enough devotees in the creative industry to usher them into a more modern, flexible, user-installed and -hosted CMS, whether it be customized or a consumer option such as dominant platforms Moveable Type or WordPress.