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Risqué Billboard Draws Eyes, Ire

Chicago-area residents call advertisement sexist and offensive

May 30, 07 8:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - A billboard featuring a scantily clad woman and indicating "problem" areas on her body is the talk of the Chicago area. The 10-by-36 ad for a salon and spa went up two weeks ago, and some local residents have their panties in a twist—understandable, because the model doesn't... More »

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advertising • women • nudity • Pascal Ibgui • Glenview

News Outlets Bid Up Search Word Prices

"Virgina Tech Shooting" peaked at $5  before dropping to six cents

Apr 30, 07 8:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Online news outlets, usually the ones selling sponsored links to advertisers, are also buying them, to compete for traffic, especially during major news events like the Virginia Tech massacre. From CNN to Fox to the New York Times, news organizations are bidding on Internet keywords at auction from search engines,... More »

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Internet • newspaper • advertising • online advertising • Washington Post • keywords • CNN • Fox • Iraq war

Local TV Pushes Fake Medical News

Hospital-produced promos are passed
off as news reports by local stations

Apr 25, 07 8:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - TV stations across America broadcast fake medical news stories that are really ads produced by providers to tout their new techniques and procedures, according to an investigation by the Columbia Journalism Review. “I kick, scream, and fight, and make them as journalistically ethical as possible," says one reporter.... More »

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advertising • hospitals • local news • news • journalism

Radio Replaces Commercials With Sponsors

Dallas station moves
to keep up with the iPod generation

Apr 23, 07 9:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a throwback to the days of Texaco Star Theater and the Colgate Comedy Hour, a Clear Channel radio station has ditched spot ads in favor of hourly corporate sponsors. In an effort to compete with uninterrupted satellite radio and mp3 players, DJs on KZPS-FM in Dallas will pepper their... More »

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radio • advertising • Dallas • Clear Channel • business • commercials • KZPS FM

(Newser) - Yahoo's new online advertising system failed to break the company's earnings slump, with the search-engine pioneer reporting an 11% drop in first-quarter profits. Yahoo faces increased competition for graphic display advertising that represents a third of revenue, and the company is no longer doing ad brokering for Microsoft, which bolstered... More »

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Yahoo • Internet • Microsoft • advertising • business • stocks • Project Panama

Advertisers
Dump Imus

Procter & Gamble and others pull ad dollars after racist comment

Apr 11, 07 12:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Piling on to the mounting outrage against Don Imus, three advertisers have pulled their support from the CBS radio show or its simulcast MSNBC TV program. The three include marketing heavyweight Procter & Gamble, Staples and Bigelow Tea, the Wall Street Journal reports. More »

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television • media • radio • CBS • advertising • Don Imus • Proctor • MSNBC • General Motors • Staples • Bigelow Tea

Google Scores First Deal to Serve TV Commercials

Automated system allows advertisers to buy and track commercials

Apr 3, 07 9:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Drunk with its success at dominating the internet ad business, Google wants to start serving up TV commercials, too. The first company to sign up is EchoStar Communications, a satellite TV provider which will announce today a deal with Google to broker commercials across its 125 TV channels. More »

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television • technology • Google • Internet • advertising • commercials • sattelite • satellite TV

Big Guns Battle Video Sharing With Free TV Shows

Copyright-protected content will be available for free online in new NBC-News Corp. partnernship

Mar 23, 07 9:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - TV biggies NBC Universal and News Corp. are teaming up to hit YouTube with the full force of their their combined TV content, offered online for free. Starting this summer, AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft's MSN and News Corp. subsidiary MySpace will hope to win over internet users (and the advertising that... More »

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television • Yahoo • Google • Internet • YouTube • AOL • Microsoft • MSN • Rupert Murdoch • MySpace • Heroes • 24 • NBC • advertising • intellectual property • consumer • copyright • file sharing • Internet advertising • News Corp

YouTube Trickster Comes Clean  

Mar 22, 07 8:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - An employe of the tech company that handles Barack Obama’s website admits making the notorious “Vote Different” YouTube video portraying Hillary Clinton as Big Brother – now one of the most watched videos on the web. Phil de Vellis writes on The Huffington Post that he created the ... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • YouTube • politics • advertising • presidential campaign • tech companies • Election 2008

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