Lingerie-Clad Julie Newmar Wants Spokesperson Gig…At 74

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Former Catwoman Julie Newmar, in an AdWeek ad, is looking for a spokesperson gig.

Geriatric Egg, Sausage Snail, Bacon Caterpillar Shill Pancakes in A Can

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Who doesn’t like a nice stack of pancakes everyone in a while?

Adidas Boost Auckland Marathon Runners With Giant Fan

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Here’s an interesting extension of Adidas’ Impossible is Nothing mantra.

Jay Mohr Follows Vanilla Ice With TurboTax’s TaxLaugh

We always new Jay Mohr was an actor. We never really knew he was a comedian (we gave up on SNL long ago and, more recently, never watched Last Comic Standing). Apparently, appreciates his comic abilities and hooked up…

Naked PETA Babe or President Bush. You Decide

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OK, here we go again. Tonight, you have a choice. You can tune in to President Bush’s State of the Union address. Or you can blow it off and…

Rubicon Project Eliminates Ad Network Selection Headaches For Publishers

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Making life easier for publishers struggling to keep up with the explosion of ad networks – now numbering over 300 – and the determination of which network will yield the best results, is the Rubicon Project.

Consumer Reports Launches AdWatch Ad Review Series

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Consumer Reports, which for a long time has helped people buy products that aren’t crap, is now expanding its analysis of the advertising that pushes both good and bad products with the launch of CR AdWatch videos.

Pick Paul’s Brain With HBO’s ‘He’s Listening’

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For HBO’s new series In Treatment, Deep Focus along with illustrator Bryan Christie have crafted a website, He’s Listening, that, like the series, lets you get inside the minds of the five patients features in the show.

PUMA Creates Football Shoe For 2179

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If you want to know what sort of “footwear” football (soccer) players will be wearing in the year 2178, PUMA has the answer for you.

Fashionistas Take to Streets of Hong Kong to Promote Mall

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So what do you to to promote yet another shopping mall in a place as big and busy as Hong Kong?

Chickipedia (Not Wikipedia) Has Jessica Alba’s Boob Size

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To promote its all girl, all the time website ChickiPedia, somebody’s created yet another PC versus Mac-style ad.

Man Grooming Privates Becomes Commercial For…

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While this scenario is, at best, a bit of a stretch, the commercial in which the scenario plays out does a pretty good job commanding one’s attention.

iPod Owns Humans, Zune Shifts Focus to Dogs

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Zune. Moon. It all makes perfect sense. Dog travels to moon. Dog gets goodies. Dog brings them back to share with other earth-bound dogs. Cute.

Mac Lovers Get Their Own Movie

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You can react to this MacHeads movie trailer (yes, it is reportedly going to be a real movie) two ways.

Kitchen Cupboards Blamed for Domestic Violence

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In another nod to the “invisible” cause of domestic abuse and violence against women, this National Center for Domestic Violence commercial highlights the fact that, in the U.K., 330,000 injuries per year are blamed on kitchen cupboard doors.

‘Sausages’ to Receive Super Bowl Water Cooler Action?

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It’s unclear whether or not this Bud Light Ability to Talk to Animals spot will make an appearance during the Super Bowl but if it does, there could be a lot of sausage talk at the office the next day.

Times Square Gets Visit From Music-Toting Inflatable Monster

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Flickr user brandongenera captured a few pictures of the Pepsi Monster which made its debut in Times Square yesterday to promote the brand’s music giveaway on Amazon MP3 which will offer 3.25 million DRM-free songs for download.

Man Boobs Obscure Various Body Parts

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For a woman, not being able to see her feet without leaning over her protruding breasts could, by some, be considered a good thing. For a man with man boobs, not so much.

Yuzu Sushi Morphs Assvertising into Spare Tire Advertising

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For a little taste of non-traditional advertising, Canada’s Yuzu Sushi gives us…spare tire advertising. Yes, spare tire advertising.

Minnesota Lottery Ads Capture Store Clerk Geekism Perfectly

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The sad thing about this new Colle + McVoy-created campaign for the Minnesota State Lottery is that there really are real people in the real world just like the ones depicted in these three commercials.