Street Art Meets Foot Fetish in NIKE PHOTOiD

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Capitalizing on culture junkies accustomed to a world they can manipulate with ease, AKQA launched Nike PHOTOiD.

Future of Advertising Predicted by Leo Burnett Futurist

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Leo Burnett London Futures Editor Ben Hourahine thinks he has the answers to the future of advertising.

Hey, Check Out the Heavy on that Clicker.

According to a comScore study commissioned by Starcom and TACODA, online ad clicks aren’t as demographically diverse as your deluded CEO thinks. 80 percent of them come from only 16 percent of online users. They are generally young, underpaid…

Innocence Used to Promote Politically Transcendent (Tele)Communication

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Adrants reader Sunil pointed us to this sleeper controversy. Did Airtel rip one of its India-based ads off a Cannes-award-winning New Zealand Telecom spot?

Ryanair’s Plaid, Pleated, School Girl Ad Raises Ire, Airline Stands Firm

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Ryanair has refused to pull a newspaper ad which features a model wearing a plaid, pleated mini-skirt and a midriff-baring shirt.

Fiorana Launches Line of Latino-Cut Bootylicious Jeans

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Fiorana launches line on Latino-cut jeans because, well, all Latinos have big butts.

Ms. Burned for Rejecting Israeli Girl Power Ad

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Pro-femme magazine Ms. recently got a spanking in the Jewish community for rejecting the ad at left. It features images of three Israeli women in power: president Dorit Beinisch of Israel’s Supreme Court, foreign minister Tzipi Livni, and speaker Dalia Itzik, above the words, “This is Israel.”

Obama Generates Still More Hype, May Win Votes of Hardened Racists…?

Word on the street is Obama won the first-ever MySpace primary for the Democratic side, taking 46 percent of MySpace Democrat votes. Having stolen the love of social networking’s working-class, Bob Garfield — ad commentator-cum-resident sociologist — is willing…