Democrats Pull Ad With Flag-Draped Coffins

Democrats pulled an Internet ad that showed flag-draped coffins Friday after Republicans and at least two Democrats demanded it be taken down on grounds the image was insensitive and not fit for a political commercial.

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Pa. GOP Angry Over Democrats' Web Site Ad

Republicans are howling over a Democratic political Web site ad that displays flag-draped coffins and a police mug shot of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, arguing that the ad politicizes war casualties and is an insult to the families of the troops killed in Iraq.

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Flashing Beer Ad Forces Hotel Evacuation

A red light from a beer ad that a bartender suspected was a bomb when he saw it blinking on a wall forced 35 people to be evacuated from a resort hotel.

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Networks Battle Ad-Subbing Technology

The major broadcast and cable networks are challenging the use of technology to substitute commercials shown during regular television programs at truck stops across the nation.

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Ad Calls for Wal-Mart to Change Principles

One of Wal-Mart's most vocal union-funded critics took out a full-page ad in The New York Times on Tuesday calling on the company to live up to the "moral responsibilities" of being the world's largest private employer by improving wages and health insurance.

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Union: EEOC Cuts Threaten Job Security

Cuts in funding and staff at the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission are threatening job security for millions of Americans, a federal workers' union claims in a new ad campaign.

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Dawn Rogers Resigns As Xavier AD

The first woman athletic director at Xavier University resigned Monday.

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Curve Balls Abound in TV Ad-Selling Season

The annual spring ritual of selling blocks of advertising for prime-time TV shows airing this fall just got a lot more interesting.

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Stanford Hires Bowlsby to Be New AD

Stanford hired Iowa athletic director Bob Bowlsby on Tuesday to run the Cardinal's athletic department.

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Dolly, Elvis Ad to Promote Tenn. Tourism

In a new television commercial promoting Tennessee tourism, a dashing young Elvis Presley drives his red convertible Corvette Stingray in a clip from his 1967 film "Clambake."

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New Technology May Force TV Ad Viewing

In this era of easy ad skipping with TiVo-like video recorders, could television viewers one day be forced to watch commercials with a system that prevents channel switching?

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Colorado State Names New Athletic Director

Paul Kowalczyk was appointed as Colorado State's athletic director Tuesday after holding the same job at Southern Illinois.

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Georgia Tech Hires AD From LSU

Dan Radakovich was hired as Georgia Tech's athletic director Wednesday after spending the last four years as the top aide to LSU's athletic director.

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Mickey Dee's Harnesses McSun for Chicago Billboard

Wow -- this is a brilliant ad. This -almost- makes up for the ill-fated "I'd Hit It" campaign of last year.

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Newsvine Adsense?

Anyone else notice the fresh new ad that seems to be popping up on new articles? The online student loan site? Newsvine, what's up with that?

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Sony PSP Ad Racist, Part 2: Ad Pulled

Sony pulls controversial Dutch PSP ad Sony Corp. said on Tuesday it had pulled a Dutch billboard advertising campaign for the new white version of its PlayStation Portable video game player and apologized to anyone offended by the ad, which critics dubbed racist.

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Dr. Greg Show

Marketing secrets to popular TV, radio and print advertising as learned through working with Dr. Greg Cynaumon- TV and radio spokesperson and ad agency exec.

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Sony ad casues white riot

Is the world ready to explore themes of race and domination in the context of a videogame console ad?

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Malware Installed by LiveJournal Ad

Over the last few days an advertiser used an ad to install the ErrorSafe malware that tried to trick people into believing they had a fault on the computer that needs them to purchase a fix.

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Just Say No! -- to suicide bombing?

Remember how we won the War on Drugs with those fried egg ads? Well, now we're going to win the War on Terror with some new ads filled with cool special effects! Awesome!

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Madonna 'Turns Down Millions' For Sex Pill Ad

Company boss James Dixon tells British newspaper the Daily Star, "We thought it wasn't bad for 10 minutes work. But it was deemed too raunchy for her new lady-of-the-manor image. It seems basques and crucifixions are OK but talking about her sex life isn't." LOL!

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Insane Folgers Ad

What in the world did they put in their coffee? Click on the TV on the right for the ad.

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Tolerate Mornings With Folgers

Intersesting new viral marketing ad from Folgers......strange though

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Jonathan Leger's AdSense and Yahoo Publisher Tracker Review

Adsense and Yahoo Publisher Tracker helps to drastically improve your ad revenue tracking and optimise your ads to multiply your income

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Michael Cheney's AdSense Videos Review

A good set of videos teaching you how to significantly improve your revenue with AdSense. It works really well.

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5 Words to Never Use in an Ad

Five Words to Never Use in an Ad Google the term "magic advertising words" and you'll instantly get over 8 million results. But caveat emptor -- don't buy into everything you read, because your prospective buyer certainly won't.

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New Micropayment System: Do To Others What You Want Them To Do To You

A new micropayment system idea which promises to make content publishers, ad publishers and readers all happy at the same time. If it works we hopefully will see less ads pushed in our face.

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AD's on NEWSVINE!! Finally!

I'm sure that all of us were drawn to Newsvine for the ability to comment on news and post our own articles. But I remember when I signed up, there was a shroud of mystery around the "AD MONEY". Great Idea then - but now I'm wondering...

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Ferris Bueller DirecTV ad

There are the occasional television commercials that 'click' with a percentage of 'right-aged' Americans. This new ad by DirecTV tickles the funny bone and making one realize how quickly 20 years have passed.

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Chitika: the Next Big Player in the Online Ads Market?

My impressions (mostly very positive) about Chitika's ad-based revenue generation program from the publisher and visitor points of view.

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MIT Advertising Lab: future of advertising and advertising technology

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Apple's Good Fight on Malware

The latest round of Apple (AAPL) ads aimed at convincing consumers to drop their Windows PCs and join the millions of people happily using Macs kicked off this week.

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Highest Paying Google AdSense Keywords Hoax

Is it possible to find out what google adwords pay the most? I've decided to research the topic and my findings so far show that any sites claiming that they know the most paid keywords are a hoax. Read on for details.

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Google Places Firefox Ad On Home Page

Google Inc. on Wednesday ran an ad for Firefox on its popular homepage, giving the open-source Web browser a big marketing boost over their joint rival Microsoft Corp.

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How to Bring Google AdSense Down Or You are Guilty but We will not Tell You Why

This story is about a first-hand encounter with Google AdSense injustice. It explains why at the moment is might be unwise to try to rely on Google AdSense for your source of income.

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thwacking the ads: taking control of your online experience

I've been meaning to write this article for a while now; the inspiration that finally got me off my duff was the rumblings that advertising will come to newsvine.

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Advertisers look to grassroots marketing | CNET News.com

"More and more companies are trying to get customers to create viral-video-style ads for their products." -- A good look on how many companies are testing the waters of user generated viral-ads. It is an interesting and promising trend for many emerging filmmakers and visual ar

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What a Drag - The great Powerade ad you won't find on TV.

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