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13 unusual facts about advertising


Ancillary revenue

Airline-sold Advertising relates to revenue from the sale of advertising in in-flight magazines and other customer communication channels (including advertising on the aircraft interior or exterior, or in airport or lounge facilities, as well as advertising on airlines' in-flight entertainment service.

AOL Mail

Ads: are displayed while working with the e-mail account.

Chinthavishtayaya Shyamala

The movie opens with a light portrayal of the misery of his wife Shyamala and their two daughters, with Vijayan away on his latest venture — an attempt to shoot a short ad film.

Commercial broadcasting

Advertisers pay a certain amount of money to air their commercials, usually based upon program ratings or the audience measurement of a station or network.

Édouard Schuré

Eduard (Édouard) Schuré (January 21, 1841 in Strasbourg – April 7, 1929 in Paris) was a French philosopher, poet, playwright, novelist, music critic, and publicist of esoteric literature.

Fundraising for the 2008 United States presidential election

Money raised is applied in many ways, such as for the salaries of non-volunteers in the campaign, transportation, campaign materials, and media advertisements.

Marnie Reece-Wilmore

Marnie began her acting career at the age of eight,signing with her first agent and taking time off school to record voiceover work for radio and television before making the leap to acting on screen in the Australian telemovie "The Distant Home" commercials.

Mike Ratledge

In the 1980s Ratledge was active as a composer and musical producer for commercials and the theatre.

Moonstar 88

Baay is a pharmacist with academic achievements outside music; Bernaldo is a famous video director; Sundiang is a Marketing Manager; and Hernandez is an accomplished Creative Director.

Pitshanger

The Lane was also used in a 2008 commercial for Churchill Insurers, where a car is seen driving down the Lane with the well-known Churchill Dog.

So Easy

The sampled lyrics are: "Blue on blue, heartache on heartache/Blue on blue, Now that we are through." "So Easy" was used for a time on British television adverts for T-Mobile, as well as the displays between programs on Channel 4.

Sunkist Fun Fruits

Advertising on television and comic books for Fun Fruits usually featured characters named "Tickle Trees" who would cause those who approached them to laugh uncontrollably.

Wallis Cinemas

Big Screen Advertising has supplied pre-film advertising to all of Wallis' cinema locations since 2004, when Val Morgan Cinema Advertising (Wallis' previous advertising agent) was absorbed by rival cinema chain Hoyts.


Acme Brick

In 1993, Troy Aikman, Hall of Fame quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys football team, became an Acme Brick spokesperson - initially in radio and print advertising, and later on television.

Alberto Gollán

Through Televisión Litoral, Gollán started in 1977 the Ibero-American Advertising Festival (Festival Iberoamericano de Publicidad, or FIAP), which has continued to be celebrated annually, with the participation of producers from Spain, Portugal and several Latin American countries.

Altes Stadthaus, Berlin

Some financing was contributed by British mobile phone company Vodafone, which paid 100,000 marks for a giant red advertising banner that concealed the scaffolding around the tower for a year.

Animal Planet

In November 2012, Revision3, the Discovery-owned online video network, entered into a partnership with Fishbowl Worldwide Media to distribute and sell advertising for its pets-focused YouTube programming, as well as to fund development of new shows, on its YouTube channel PETSAMI, run by FishBowl Digital Studio senior vice president and general manager David Beebe.

Arthur Billitt

He took over from the first presenter Percy Thrower who in 1976 invoked the wrath of the BBC by falling foul of their 'no advertising' policy and was fired for endorsing fertilisers on TV.

Arthur Chesterfield-Evans

Dr Chesterfield-Evans was president of the Non-Smokers Movement from 1984 to 1997 and a member of Billboard Utilising Graffitists Against Unhealthy Promotions (BUGA UP), which vandalised tobacco-advertising billboards with satirical graffiti.

Bedham

More recent notable residents have included the newsreader Reginald Bosanquet and the advertising guru Paul Arden.

Bic Cristal

Bich invested heavily in advertising, hiring poster designer Raymond Savignac.

Bo Brady and Hope Williams

The pairing won the "America's Favorite Supercouple" award at the 2002 Emmy Awards, and are the face of Avon's Blue Rush perfume advertising campaign.

Deon Meyer

In the 1980s he worked as a journalist at Die Volksblad, at the public relations office of the University of the Free State, and began work as advertising copy writer at Sanlam.

DJ Boy

Another change that was made was the insertion of in-game billboards containing Japanese text with images of scantily clad women (and focusing on crotch images).

DNS.com

DNS.com serves direct customers including ecommerce websites, Software as a service applications, and advertising and marketing agencies.

Edward Young Clarke

Edward Young Clarke was an advertising executive from Louisiana and the Imperial Wizard pro tempore of the Ku Klux Klan who devised the "kluxing" system of payments to the hierarchy within the Klan.

Eva Besnyö

In 1930, at the age of 20, she moved to Berlin where she first worked for advertising photographer René Ahrlé before working on photoreportages with the press photographer Peter Weller.

Fredd Bear's Breakfast-A-Go-Go

The only footage from Fredd Bear's Breakfast-A-Go-Go believed to exist is a performance by former Seekers member Bruce Woodley of his advertising jingle The ANZ Bank Travelling Man.

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.

George Weston Limited

Meanwhile, a new advertising campaign featured Canadian actor William Shatner of Star Trek fame, who told television audiences to "Come on over to Loblaws" and "More than the price is right....but by gosh the price is right." In 1974, W. Galen Weston was appointed Chairman and Managing Director of George Weston Limited, and subsequently company President.

Holmen, Copenhagen

The 32 former Gunboat Sheds today house small business mainly in the creative sector, such advertising agencies, media houses and architectural practises.

Honey Nut Cheerios

Historically, Honey Nut Cheerios has participated in much the same promotional advertising as the original brand, while collaborating with the field of NASCAR and especially driver Bill Lester, in promoting healthy diets.

Isle of Man Courier

The company made the decision after complaining that the Isle of Man Government was starving it of advertising by favouring the Isle of Man Examiner and its sister papers, the Isle of Man Weekly Times and the Manx Star.

Israel Folau

Around the same time he also signed a two-year endorsement deal with Powerade, featuring in the product's television advertising.

James Walter Thompson

James Walter Thompson (October 28, 1847 – October 16, 1928) was the namesake of the JWT advertising agency and a pioneer of many advertising techniques.

Janet M. Anderson

She received commissions from a wide range of business, publications, advertising campaigns, and individuals, having her work shown to visiting celebrities and dignitaries such as Hello Dolly! star Carol Channing and U.S. President Gerald Ford.

Jedem das Seine

Several modern advertising campaigns in the German language, including ads for Nokia, REWE grocery stores, Burger King, and Merkur Bank have been marred by controversy after using the phrase Jedem das Seine or Jedem den Seinen.

John Tantillo

He has been particularly outspoken about what he perceives as the money wasted on Super Bowl advertising.

Judson Rosebush

Rosebush's television credits include directing over 1000 commercials and logos for advertising agencies and networks worldwide; feature film credits include Walt Disney's Tron.

Keith, Moray

The town is home of psych/folk/country band, The Carousels, whose track 'Marianne' was used on an advertising campaign for Irn-Bru.

Kuckuck Schallplatten

Kuckuck Schallplatten (engl.: Cuckoo Records) is a German record label founded in August 1969 by Eckart Rahn, Mal Sondock and the advertising agency ConceptData in Munich, growing out of his music publishing company

Listerine

As the advertising scholar James B. Twitchell writes, "Listerine did not make mouthwash as much as it made halitosis."

Liu·Jo

The spring-summer 2011 collection advertising campaign features model Kate Moss

Los Angeles Times suburban sections

The Los Angeles Times suburban sections or zone sections were printed between 1952 and 2001 as adjuncts to the main newspaper to cover the news of and sell advertising space in various parts of Southern California that the Times considered to be in the prime part of its circulation area.

Mahout

A shop display advertising "Mahout" cigarettes features prominently in the background of the "rain dance" sequence of the famous 1952 Gene Kelly film Singin' in the Rain.

Mike, der Taschengeldexperte

The comic was last produced by the advertising agency genokom from Münster in Westphalia, which also publishes the sequel comic Primax together with the DG VERLAG.

Morningside Road railway station

ScotRail retains an advertising hoarding on the bridge next to the clock, where they display posters advertising passenger rail services.

Morpeth Herald

Advertising is shared with its sister title the Northumberland Gazette.

Olga Benário Prestes

In 2004, a popular Brazilian film based on Benário's life, Olga, directed by telenovela director Jayme Monjardim, which offered a thoroughly depoliticized account of Olga's life, centered on her love affair with Prestes, was released, to the disappointment of German critics, who called it "kitsch advertising".

PAL-M

Walter Bruch, inventor of PAL, explains Brazil's choice of PAL against these odds by an advertising campaign Telefunken and Philips carried out across South America in 1972, which included colour test broadcasts of popular shows (done with TV Globo) and technical demonstrations with executives of television stations.

Paul Hollins

He has been heard on advertising campaigns for companies as diverse as Cadbury, Sony, TrafficMaster and Universal Music.

Quim Gutiérrez

Quim was chosen by Givenchy Creative Director Riccardo Tisci to star in the brands Autumn/Winter 2013 Advertising Campaign

Representative example

The representative example must be provided when any financial services provider advertising a product, whether it is a credit card, loan or mortgage.

Richard Albert

Richard L. Albert, president of the motion picture advertising agency Design Projects, Inc.

Ronald MacDonald

Ronald McDonald, advertising clown for McDonald's fast-food restaurants

Specsavers

The Perkins attribute their success to their franchise model, and to the de-regulation of the UK Opticians market by the Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, allowing opticians to use previously forbidden advertising and marketing techniques to rapidly take over a market that had belonged to independent local opticians.

St. Johns, Michigan

Leo Burnett - Advertising Executive, Founder of Chicago-based Advertising Company Leo Burnett Worldwide

The Computer Paper

Similar in style to American regional magazines such as Computer Currents, Micro Times and Computer User, The Computer Paper was printed on newsprint on a monthly basis and was distributed free to readers as it was entirely advertising supported.

The Good Men Project

The for-profit arm of the Good Men Project, Good Men Media, Inc., was founded in March 2010 by Lisa Hickey, an advertising veteran and social media consultant.

The Mikey Show

Since arriving back in San Diego the show has become more mellow due to Esparza's embrace of Christianity, with a billboards campaign advertising his contrasts labeling him both an addict and a Christian.

Wes Covington

He later became an advertising manager for the Edmonton Sun newspaper, a position he held for nearly 20 years.

William Bernbach

He was also named "Top Advertising Agency Executive" in 1969 and received the American Academy of Achievement Award in 1976 and was inducted into the American Advertising Federation Hall of Fame in same year.

Yeo Valley Organic

In 2010, they launched a £5 million advertising campaign, created by Bartle Bogle Hegarty, featuring the Yeo Valley Rap, using commercial breaks in The X Factor finals, which went viral.