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WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) — Some Republicans are launching a petition drive for the election campaign. The target? Oprah Winfrey. They're seeking to have Oprah interview GOP VP running mate Sarah Palin before the election.

LONDON – Webcam manufacturer Logitech has called on its direct and digital marketing agency Kitcatt Nohr to conduct a pan-European research study to track customer buying habits.

Giving people a personal experience of your brand may be easier than we thought. Apparently, when it comes to personal experiences, people are prone to just making them up. A study at the University of Portsmouth in England found that 40 percent of those questioned had false memories about the London bombings of 2005. As many of us here in the U.S. think back on 9/11 this week, we may also be experiencing false memories of where we were that day. Of course, tragedies aren’t the only things that cause us to make false memories. In a 2001 experiment at the University of Washington, researchers showed people a fake print ad in which a person describes shaking hands with Bugs Bunny at Disneyland. A third of the participants later recalled the event as if it had happened to them. Wait, does all this mean I didn’t actually see Bill Gates buying shoes at my local Shoe Circus? Via Boing Boing.

—Posted by Rebecca Cullers

LONDON – GMG has confirmed it is set to continue its current national airtime sales contract under Global Radio for the Real, Century, Smooth and Rock Radio brands, following the merger of Global Radio and GCap Media.

LONDON – Bob Geldof, founder and non-executive director of factual media company Ten Alps, is launching an online TV channel, called the Peace Channel, covering the world’s wars and potential flashpoints.

Given the recent surges in obesity, ads like this KFC classic from 1980 are strangely quaint. Which makes sense, as those were more innocent times. Pac-Man and CNN were new, I hadn’t been born yet, and Richard Pryor was still alive and extending his act another few years by setting himself on fire during an attempt to freebase cocaine. How were we to know that years of eating what may or may not have been chicken fried in lakes of grease would turn those apple-cheeked kids into guys like this 28 years down the line?

—Posted by David Kiefaber

LONDON – Paul Donovan, chief executive of Vodafone’s emerging markets division, has announced his departure. He is being tipped for the vacant chief executive role at Arsenal FC.

LONDON – Author Alexander McCall Smith is to write the first 100 successive episodes of his new serial novel Corduroy Mansions exclusively on the Telegraph’s website.

According to Career Junction, if your grocery lists, wardrobe plans or gardener’s agreements look like these, it’s time to change jobs.

The three-part ad campaign inspires readers to change jobs by depicting…

LONDON – Coca-Cola is releasing a Wieden & Kennedy-created ad for its Bond tie-in Coke Zero Zero 7 in the style of the franchise’s opening credits and featuring music by Jack White from The White Stripes.