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She wore an itsy bitsy teenie weenie bikini -- and someone complained?????
Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Hey, did you know this? Sex sells. Yeah, we're shocked, too.

Glenn Beckinistas Wiggle Out of Straitjackets to Mount Counter-Boycott in Defense of Bigotry
Source: BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash

In case you hadn't marked it in your TV Guide already, Glenn Beck returns from his media blackout bunker vacation today.

Man catches MSI laptop with... his buttocks
Source: 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' ad
Source: 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.

Blackpool advert shows its Parisian side
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Blackpool's latest advert aims to show its "charming continental side" through the power of YouTube

Women may orgasm on television before 11pm
Source: Telegraph

Women may orgasm on television before 11pm, or at least appear to do so, according to a ruling by the advertising watchdog.

10 Major Marketing Spectacles: Win or Whoops
Source: 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.

Barack Obama: A True President of the People?

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.

One House Obama is Trying to Prevent McCain From Owning: Great Rebuttal on John McCain's Houses

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 censure
Source: 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 Shining
Source: 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.

Doritos advert to be broadcast to aliens
Source: Telegraph

A snack manufacturer is to broadcast an advert into space.

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.

Three Great Books I Would Recommend…

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 Children
Source: 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.

Ryanair battles ASA over 'saucy schoolgirl' ad
Source: The Register (UK)

Ryanair has locked horns with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over a newspaper advert featuring a "saucy schoolgirl", the BBC reports.

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 village
Source: 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.

Student's Ad Gets a Remake, and Makes the Big Time
Source: The New York Times

A television commercial for the new iPod Touch from Apple, scheduled to begin running on Sunday, 10-28 is being created by the longtime Apple agency, TBWA/Chiat/Day.

Hampshire copper in bus flash outrage
Source: 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:

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