Man catches MSI laptop with... his buttocksSource: reghardware.co.uk
With so many laptops, notebooks, netbooks and – even – smartbooks on the market, manufacturers must create increasingly brilliant adverts in order to sap the cash from your pockets. Not MSI, though, which just resorts to 'cheeky' adverts.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Palestinians mock 'bad taste' adSource: BBC News
A funny cell phone advertisement by an Israeli cell phone company tries to take a light hearted approach, by depicting a series of events which leads to Israeli soldiers and unseen Palestinians kicking a soccer ball back and forth, in all good fun, over the barrier wall.
10 Major Marketing Spectacles: Win or WhoopsSource: The Bottom Line Vine
Any press is good press right? Wrong! Making a complete spectacle out of yourself or your brand will get you attention, but is it the kind of attention you want.
Domino's Lets TiVo Users Order Pizza Via TV Source: MediaPost | Online Media Daily
Why get up? Now, couch potatoes who subscribe to TiVo can order a Domino's Pizza through the service, thanks to an agreement between the two companies.

According to one Spanish speaking voter, she had never heard a presidential candidate made a whole advert in Spanish and with such feeling. Apparently Barack is unique in that. She was so excited and thrilled.
iPhone ad rapped as 'misleading'Source: BBC News
A television advert for the iPhone misled consumers, the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled.
Two complaints to the watchdog noted that the advert said "all the parts of the internet are on the iPhone".
Orangina advert 'too sexy' Source: Telegraph
An Orangina advert in which animals wearing tiny bikinis and gyrate around poles has drawn complaints from viewers.

This must have been the quickest advert made in history! One minute, John McCain cannot remember how many houses he owns while being questioned in an interview on Politico, and the next minute the Obama Team has an advert attacking that poor memory, reminding him of just how many …
Mr T: 'Not homophobic'Source: Yahoo! News
Mr T has denied a recently pulled advert for a candy bar was homophobic - insisting he didn't mean to offend people.
Violent GTA IV ad escapes censureSource: vnunet.com
Rockstar's recent TV advert for its controversial Grand Theft Auto IV game on the Xbox 360 has been let off the hook by the Advertising Standards Authority.
Channel 4 recreates The ShiningSource: Guardian Unlimited
Channel 4 has painstakingly recreated the set of Stanley Kubrick horror film The Shining, complete with look-a-likes of the crew and cast members including Shelley Duvall, for a TV ad to promote a More 4 season of the director's films.
Fake ad: 'The more you weigh, the more you pay'Source: msnbc.com
PHILADELPHIA - Derrie-Air has been exposed. Readers of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News opened their papers Friday to see ads for a new airline called Derrie-Air, which purportedly charges passengers by the pound.

We all read so much, and I am sure it is difficult to find favourites to tell others about, especially with the field being so vast. But my thee choices, which took tons of chopping and changing, would have to be the following:
Online ads 'to beat TV' by 2009 Source: BBC News
In the UK, Online advertising grew 38% in 2007 to be worth £2.8bn ($5.5bn), taking its market share to 15.3%, up from 11.4% in 2006, the report showed.
Concern in Europe on Cellphone Ads for ChildrenSource: The New York Times
PARIS — The MO1 beginner mobile phone is not as cuddly as a teddy bear, but manufacturers of the curvy crimson-and-blue handset for 6-year-olds promise a similarly warm and fuzzy relationship.
Gorbachev Louis Vuitton Ad Hides Sinister Secret Message Source: New York Magazine
Perhaps you've seen a memorable Louis Vuitton ad in the back of New York and other magazines: a pensive Mikhail Gorbachev being driven in a limo past the remains of the Berlin Wall, his only companion a trusty piece of LV luggage with some reading material sticking out.
New Guinness advert: Giant domino villageSource: Telegraph
From the moment Guinness used a Toucan to promote its dark stout, the brewery's adverts have always been iconic. Its latest and most expensive one, which will be shown tonight for the first time, is no exception.
Hampshire copper in bus flash outrageSource: The Register (UK)
We're very much obliged today to Hampshire's finest for demonstrating that when knocking up ads for the backs of buses you really need to consider just exactly where the exhaust will sit: