Still, the tongue-in-cheek ad on the Pepsi website featuring a businessman trying to chose between a woman in a pizza costume and another in a burger outfit, with the message being that you can have it all if you drink Pepsi Special, hints that even Pepsi is aware of the nonsense of its claims.
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Mr Richardson, a former governor of New Mexico, has been involved in ad-hoc negotiations with the North Koreans in the last 20 years and has helped in securing the release of US nationals detained by Pyongyang.
There was a famous ad in which a kid walks through the schoolyard representing Fletcher, and a follow-on ad in which a little girl in pigtails representing Northup, joined the crowd.
And when she appeared in a full-page Wall Street Journal ad cutting a hundred-dollar bill in half as a symbol of her discount philosophy, her long-time clearing house dropped her, and she was briefly threatened with Securities and Exchange Commission expulsion.
Competitors like Advanced Wireless Group offer free ad-supported access in some U.S. airports.
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No way, said Khoja, who countered that he would shut off service in the area and run a full-page ad in the newspaper explaining why no cell phones were working.
Most importantly, the 18% price-per-ad growth in North America, despite easy comps with virtually no Newsfeed revenue a year ago, suggests we will need to see a pricing-power inflection for the multiple to expand, or even for it to remain stable, in early 2014 and onwards when comps become harder.
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Ever since it bought the display-ad serving system DoubleClick in 2007, Google has been steadily buying up more pieces of the online ad-buying process beyond its core search ads.
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So-called "pull-ad" clauses in media contracts are increasingly commonplace, said Lena Petersen from Starcom, a division of Paris-based Publicis Group (nyse: PUB - news - people ).
Apparently French and German industrialists are taking out a one-page ad in all the papers urging the politicians and people of Europe to "save the Euro" - by way of softening public opinion for the inevitable transfer of tens of billions of taxpayers' money to the peripheral economies.
The Obama campaign and supporters were furious, and they pressured TV stations to pull the ad a common-enough tactic in such ad spats.
And, just as the early days of computing were born in the garages of Silicon Valley do-it-yourself-ers, data science is likely to develop first in an ad-hoc, hands-on way.
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They backpedalled to the mid-term elections, bemoaning that we downed the campaign ad Kool-Aid and fell in lock step with what we already believed to be true, right and good.
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That means bottom-line responsibility for the flagship office of the fifth-largest ad agency in the world.
Cool-chasing ad agencies in search of bright shiny objects and freebies for clients added to the frenzy.
One is an exchange on which marketers will be able to bid for ad impressions in real-time.
Shortly after unloading Esat, O'Brien spotted a 3-inch-square ad in the Financial Times inviting bids for a mobile license in Jamaica.
She also digs up charming incidental anecdotes: a lonely-hearts ad in a Bavarian newspaper brought together the parents of Pope Benedict.
"We did a full-page ad in the Times years ago that said, 'There will never, never, never be another Ben Benson's, '" he recalled.
But Alberta's government still ran a half-page ad in the New York Times earlier this month to try to lure American workers north.
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As for entering the business of selling ad inventory in non-Web media, there is a huge potential--assuming Google acquires companies with the proper expertise.
Some of her strengths: She had worked at a student-run ad agency in college that handled advertising for student radio stations, the yearbook and the literary arts magazine.
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The network reaches more than 62 million monthly US unique visitors and 170 million monthly global unique visitors, making it the largest music-focused ad network in the United States.
Striking a less controversial note, Best Buy's 30-second ad in the first quarter starred Amy Poehler, of NBC's "Parks and Recreation, " asking a Best Buy employee endless questions about electronics.
The campaign, the company's first purely image-based ad push in several years, features national television spots and a website in which customers, store employees and truckers share their warm feelings for the discount retailer.
As we discover more and more ways to filter out advertisements from DVRing around commercials to employing ad blocking add-ons in our Web browsers, companies are trying to find new ways to break through.
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Personally hand-counts ad pages in Conde magazines, competitors.
That little gear-and-widget ad operation in the back room of the maintenance manual shop has grown to be blended with others into the largest independent advertising agency in the world, focused on serving business-to-business clients.
He and others predict that new advertising models could emerge, such as charging a marketer only when an ad drives an in-store purchase, something retailers have been experimenting with and lusting after for a long time.
To the list of warnings we compiled last month, we add a new one: Yesterday, eight retired generals and intelligence officials took out a full-page ad in The Washington Post saying it was a bad idea.
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