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1889–90 flu pandemic

Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company - Case in English contract law, concerning an advertisement of 1891 for a putative flu remedy

1988 NSWRL season

Five years later Swan's younger brother Jimmy Barnes would also feature in an NSWRL season advertisement performing alongside Tina Turner.

Araw Mo

In June 2006, Goldilocks Bakeshop launched a new advertisement for their 40 Thoughtful Years anniversary.

Art Kane

Art Kane is credited in the book Stainless Steel Illusion for the photograph of John DeLorean with the DeLorean DMC-12 sports car that was the basis for the only magazine advertisement ever created by DeLorean Motor Company.

Bang Gang

For example the song "Follow" was used in Fox TV show The O.C.; "Inside" was used for an Emporio Armani advertisement and was featured in the movie Cashback and the trailer for the film Triage; and "Find What You Get" has been used in commercials for the car Lancia Musa.

Barbara Minty

Barbara was signed with power modeling agents Eileen Ford and Nina Blanchard and became an in demand model, gracing the covers of dozens of magazines as well as advertisement in the 1970s.

Beats Music

As with other Beats products, Beats Music will be heavily promoted; an advertisement will air during Super Bowl XLVIII, displays will be set up at Target stores, AT&T will offer exclusive bundles of the service with its mobile plans, and the service will also be promoted during The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

British Gas

Its extensive television advertising has featured many high profile individuals, and in the early 1990s one advertisement included Cheryl Cole (then Cheryl Tweedy) as a small child, more than ten years before the beginning of her pop music career.

Brodie Holland

In 2006, Holland appeared in several advertisements on television for a lottery advertisement along with the NRL's Matthew Johns.

Carl Ballantine

He switched to comedy magic and changed his name to "Carl Ballantine", after he noticed a bottle of Ballantine whisky in an advertisement and decided it sounded "show-businessy and classy", and called the magic act "Ballantine, the World's Greatest Magician".

Christa Miller

Miller was a model as a child, appearing in a Wonder Bread commercial when she was six months old, posing at three for Francesco Scavullo in an Ivory soap advertisement, and being photographed for the cover of Redbook.

Cranmer Court

The competition was announced in The Press by advertisement on 18 April of that year, rewarding the two best entries with ₤50 and ₤25, respectively.

Dead Sara

Soon after, "Weatherman" was used by Fiat in their "Fiat 500 Abarth Burning up the desert" advertisement.

Dermott Brereton

In 2005, he appeared in a Toyota Memorable Moments advertisement featuring Stephen Curry that satirised the famous 1989 Grand Final incident with Geelong player Mark Yeates.

Dive into Yourself

"Dive into Yourself" was used as an advertisement theme for the PlayStation 2 game Sengoku Basara 2 and Sengoku Basara 2 Heroes, while the B-side "Flying Music" was used as the theme song for Harmony with the Earth ID.

Embarq

That same year United Telecom changed its name to Sprint due in large part to the increased brand recognition of Sprint, as a result of the successful Candice Bergen "Dime Lady" advertisement campaign.

Fiction Factory

"(Feels Like) Heaven" was used in a 2009 television advertisement for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

Fruittella

Fruittella is known for their advertisement in the United Kingdom which contained spoofs of the songs "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred and "Let's Talk About Sex" by Salt-n-Pepa.

Gamesauce

In 2010, the magazine published a widely cited interview with game designer John Romero, in which he apologized for a poorly received advertisement for his game Daikatana.

Huub Rothengatter

He tried to get Dutch sponsors in various ways, such as by putting a one-page advertisement in "De Telegraaf" newspaper.

I See the Rain

The Marmalade's original recording also featured in a major clothing chain worldwide advertisement campaign in 2002 featuring Dennis Hopper and Christina Ricci “The Gap - Two White Shirts (version 2)”, directed by the Coen brothers

IMac

The color rollout also featured two distinctive ads: one called 'Life Savers' featured the Rolling Stones song "She's a Rainbow" and an advertisement for the white version had the introduction of Cream's "White Room" as its backing track.

Joel Selwood

Since winning the National Australia Bank-sponsored AFL Rising Star Award, Selwood has been involved in several promotions for the bank, in an ambassadorial role and in several television advertisement appearances.

Kara Saun

After Project Runway, Saun was costume designer for the hit WB series What I Like About You, starring Amanda Bynes and Jennie Garth, designed for the America’s Next Top Model Campaign 5 advertisement, and designed costumes for various TV series and pilots, such as UPN’s R U the Girl, the ABC sitcom Notes from the Underbelly and MTV's Celebrity Rap Superstar.

Keith's Chapel

When his wife died in January 1750, Keith combined the announcement of her death in The Daily Advertiser with an advertisement for his chapel's services.

Krishna Tirath

On January 24, 2010 a photograph of former Pakistan Air Chief Marshal Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed in uniform appeared along with those of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi in a full-page newspaper advertisement (see External Links below) given by Ministry of Women and Child Development to mark the National Girl Child Day.

Lizbeth Benacquisto

Rader accused Benacquisto of committing 105 election law violations in a television advertisement, a claim which Politifact rated as a true statement.

Los Angeles Free Press

The last issue was dated April 3, 1978, but was featured in Paul Schrader's 1979 film, Hardcore as where George Scott's Jake Van Dorn character placed an advertisement of himself as a porn producer in order to find his missing daughter.

Lucie Robinson

However, Robinson’s uncredited work appeared also in commercial advertisement campaigns for industrial clients like Cadbury, Orange Mobile, T-Mobile and Procter & Gamble.

Luke Harangody

A Boston company, Cellular Services Worldwide, had obtained public domain photos of Harangody and Irish quarterback Jimmy Clausen and used them in an advertisement on a Notre Dame fan site on the Web.

Maiandra GD

Maiandra GD is a typeface inspired by Oswald Bruce Cooper's hand lettering for an advertisement circa 1909, which was in turn inspired by Greek epigraphy.

Marc Iliffe

As well as televised strongman competitions, Marc appeared in a television advertisement for rock group Pulp’s Hits album before Christmas 2002 and had been cast in a film called Transfer by GMV Entertainment along with the boxer Richie Woodhall, in which he was due to play a gangster.

Marko Ahtisaari

In 2006 he left Nokia and joined his former boss, Nokia CEO Pekka Ala-Pietilä to start an advertisement-supported mobile network Blyk.

Mennen

At Harpers Ferry National Historical Park is a giant advertisement painted on the rock face of Maryland Heights.

New Zealand Lotteries Commission

In April 2013 a Lotto advertisement featuring a dog stealing his owner's Lotto ticket because he ditched him for a cat faced a complaint at the Advertising Standards Authority.

Not by Bread Alone

The advertisement campaign for the movie coincided with the 2005 State Duma by-elections there, and Govorukhin was a candidate from the governing United Russia party.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

In 2008 Morgan Creek Productions filed a lawsuit against Nintendo alleging that they illegally used the song "You're So Cool" from the film True Romance in an advertisement for the game.

Peter Hudson

In 2010, Hudson became the eleventh player to feature in a Toyota Memorable Moments advertisement with Stephen Curry and Dave Lawson, comically re-enacting his unsuccessful attempt to break Bob Pratt's goal-kicking record in the 1971 VFL Grand Final.

Play, The Videogames World

This was illustrated through interviews with important game designers such as Shigeru Miyamoto, Hideo Kojima, Tetsuya Mizuguchi and the biographies of many other leading personalities in the games industry, through the advertisement campaigns, and though highlighting the relationships between games and sports, politics, Hollywood and the military industries.

Pluxus

Their 2008 release Transient was used as the backing track to the Europe Ford Fiesta television advertisement.

Rachel Goodrich

Goodrich's song, "Light Bulb", was featured in an episode of the TV series Weeds, and the song also features in a Crayola commercial advertisement.

Rexall

Both shows were often opened by an advertisement from an actor (Griff Barnett) portraying "your Rexall family druggist", and included the catch phrase "Good health to all from Rexall." They also sponsored the Jimmy Durante Show and there are references by the character Mr. Peavey in some of The Great Gildersleeve radio shows.

San Francisco Chronicle

For many years "Herb Caen" was the only feature on its page (it traditionally shared a section front with a Macy's advertisement).

Star Riders

An advertisement in the game book stated that a Star Riders comic book series would debut in May 1994, but the only Star Riders comic published was a three-part serial that appeared in the anthology series Dark Horse Presents.

Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed

Krishna Tirath, Minister of Women and Child Development, apologized on behalf of her ministry for publishing a photograph of a former Pakistan Air Force chief in a government advertisement and said an inquiry will ascertain who was responsible for it.

Tapen Chatterjee

He started his career in the advertisement department of the children's magazine Sandesh.

The Advertisement

The Advertisement was given its world premiere at the Theatre Royal in Brighton, Great Britain, in a production by the National Theatre, and subsequently transferred to London's Old Vic Theatre, in 1968.

The Key to Reserva

The Key to Reserva is a 2007 short film/long forum advertisement for Freixenet Cava champagne starring, written and directed by Martin Scorsese.

The Tellers

The song More was included in the soundtrack of Electronic Arts' game FIFA 08 and was featured in an ANZ Bank advertisement in Australia.

The Young in Heart

Having seen Sahib's half-hearted newspaper advertisement for a job, Duncan secures one for him as a car salesman for the Flying Wombat (actually Rust Heinz's futuristic car, the Phantom Corsair).


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