Tag Archives: advertising

CBS Considers Gay Ad For Super Bowl

All the blowback over Focus On The Family’s anti-abortion Super Bowl ad may be having an effect at CBS, who is said to be considering accepting an ad from a gay dating site. Or at least, they are pretending to consider it. The 30-second spot shows two men excitedly watching the game, before their hands brush as they both reach …

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Newsday’s Paywall Fail

Three months ago Long Island’s Newsday, the 11th most widely read newspaper in the country, shifted their website to pay-to-read. The number of paying subscribers so far: 35. New York Times, are you watching? That astoundingly low figure was revealed in a newsroom-wide meeting last week by publisher Terry Jimenez when a reporter asked how many people had signed up …

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Tim Tebow Aborts His Shirt

I totally had to steal the above headline from TMZ. The actual story here is that women’s rights groups have joined the call for CBS to cancel the planned Super Bowl anti-abortion ad from Tebow and Focus On The Family. A national coalition of women’s groups called on CBS on Monday to scrap its plan to broadcast an ad during …

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CBS’s Super Bowl Commercials Policy: Anti-Abortion – Yes, Pro-Gay – No

Last week we learned that CBS will be running an anti-abortion ad from Focus On The Family during the Super Bowl, despite having rejected an ad several years ago from the pro-gay United Church of Christ, telling them that the network doesn’t won’t accept an ad that “touches on and/or takes a position on one side of a current controversial …

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Cougars On The Hunt

This amusing ad for Air New Zealand is creating some controversy among rape prevention activists there, who claim it “promotes predatory behavior.”

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Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL): Tax Corporate Political Ads At 500%

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL), the best thing to hit Congress in a long time, has launched a campaign to tax corporate political ads at 500% of their value. Fearing this decision before it became official, Grayson last week filed five campaign finance bills and a sixth one on Thursday. Grayson said the bills are important to securing the people’s “right …

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Olbermann On SCOTUS Ruling To Allow Corporate Political Ads

Watch and get even more scared. Classic Olbermann.

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Air America Shuts Down

The liberal talk radio network Air America abruptly announced Chapter 7 bankruptcy today and ceased operations. It is with the greatest regret, on behalf of our Board, that we must announce that Air America Media is ceasing its live programming operations as of this afternoon, and that the Company will file soon under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code to …

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French HIV Prevention Ad (NSFW)

The clever bit of live action + animation in a new HIV prevention ad from France may be NSFW. (Tipped by JMG reader Jonny in Sydney)

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SCOTUS Ends Ban On Corporate Political Ad Campaigns For POTUS And Congress

The Supreme Court has lifted the ban on corporations making political ads in support of presidential or congressional candidates. By a 5-4 vote, the court overturned a 20-year-old ruling that said companies can be prohibited from using money from their general treasuries to produce and run their own campaign ads. The decision, which almost certainly will also allow labor unions …

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Focus On The Family Buys Super Bowl Ad

Focus On The Family has purchased ad time during next month’s Super Bowl, when University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother will shill for the hate group. Tebow is known for placing Bible verses into the black stripes under his eyes during games. (He’s home schooled!) It’s expected that the Tebows will give a personal message against abortion …

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Wallet Envy

The New York Lottery gets cute. Big dick jokes! Sorta!

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Weatherproof Obama

The White House is angry at the Weatherproof clothing company for installing a Times Square billboard that implies the president is endorsing one of their jackets. Outerwear company Weatherproof used a recent news photo of the president in front of the Great Wall in Badaling, China, for the advertisement, with the tagline “A Leader In Style.” The White House said …

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The STD From The Black Lagoon

Towleroad points us to this syphilis alert from the AIDS Committee of Toronto and notes that advertising critic Copyranter is unimpressed. It’s the ‘ol vintage sci-fi/horror movie poster parody—a popular ad execution idea for social causes recently. And why not? Cause advertising is depressing as hell to work on these days, right? Because humans are a lost fucking cause! So, …

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Happy Nivea Year!

And a Merry Toshiba!

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DC Gays & ACLU: Anti-Marriage Bus Ad Campaign Should Stay

An anti-gay marriage ad campaign on DC’s buses should be allowed to remain, says the ACLU and a gay rights group. It all started with a tweet on Twitter, as so many things do. Someone from a little-known gay rights group called “Full Equality Now DC” sent a Tweet demanding Metro take down ads the group considered offensive. The ads, …

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Stand For Marriage DC Launches Anti-Gay Ad Campaign On City’s Buses

Full Equality Now DC wants the city to force the removal of Stand For Marriage DC’s anti-gay bus ads. ”The bus is a particularly painful place for these advertisements to be located, as they cannot be avoided. Because of these advertisements, countless LGBT citizens are forced to stare down discrimination as they board the bus to go somewhere or are …

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Non-Authentic Glee

Likely every social phenomenon in history, the flash mob was long ago co-opted by marketing and advertising firms. Here’s how Fox is promoting GLEE in Italy.

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Citadel Broadcasting Declares Bankruptcy

Citadel Broadcasting, the massive national radio network of over 200 stations, has filed for bankruptcy. Citadel syndicates wingnut Don Imus and some of its stations, such as flagship New York City-based WABC, are home to Rush Limbaugh. Citadel owns and operates 224 radio stations, including KABC-AM in Los Angeles, WLS-AM in Chicago, WABC-AM and WPLJ-FM in New York and KGO-AM …

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The Gay(er) Gap Ad

Queerty directs us to this gay-gay-gay parody of Gap’s cheerleader holiday ad. Warning: There is some screaming here. Turn it down a bit.

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