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9.28.00
Give Me a Blip -- I'll Sell You My Soul
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Pullin' Prefab Superstar Strings
Radiohead graces us with their creative marketing strategy...huffing Seventeen.com sales reps...brandathalon bondage...dot-com CEO gets baby fever...iTag gets bagged...surveillance goes wild

9.21.00
Golden Marble Monster Mash
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Demonstrators Drown Message in So Much Ketchup
Lowbrow Lowdown lackeys join demonstrators as they take to NYC streets in protest of marketing to kids.

9.14.00
Brand Your Children Well
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The School of Hard Sells
Branding institutions aid frazzled mommies...cola coercion...privacy peeping-Aristotles...a long march to la la land...have code will swindle...hot buttered Plotkin...

9.7.00
The Revelations of Chris and Luke
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Apocalyptic Signs on the Dotted Line
Corporately sponsored college pinheads....a Faustian lullaby...ICONOCAST blast...coding for Dollars...Lycos: Go Get a Clue...

8.31.00
People for the Unethical Treatment of Cancer Victims
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Offensive Ads Milk the Press
PETA's latest ethically-challenged campaign...PETA gets Stern burn...black face on the big screen...vegemite delight...the more you know about cookies...violent reactions to the violently clueless...

8.24.00
Pork-barreling Promoters Get Productive
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Audience-un-friendly?
A wolf in veep's clothing...gettin' McSmart...BK's backside blasters...hypocritical huckster gets busted...a traipse down the gilded aisle...bustin' ad caps...

8.17.00
Irreverent Ads Say, Salute!
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Have a Drink on Che
Charo and Che -- together at last...blatant appeal to gen-xers...the Comet curse...capitalist pigs in space...store manager achieves "ultimate loser" status...

8.10.00
And They Thought Gore Was Stiff...
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A Kinder, Perkier Nation
A truly pliable pres...mile high ad club...risky anti-progress scheme...all ads considered?..only the sheep survive...

8.3.00
Media's Never Ending Stories
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Little Brand, Big Laugh
Smokin' indo in TV Land...the high price of silliness...have granola, will e-mail...Jeeves knows jock-itch...keep off the intellectual property...wired laundering scheme...

7.27.00
Linguini with Sham Sauce
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Good Eats, Bad Banks
Italy puts a hit out on fraudulent foods...could McWellness be the ultimate oxymoron?..Chen achieves Mahir status...Ad revenue=bad MoJo...beach blanket branding...and burning holes in pockets and ad budgets...

7.20.00
Got Humility?
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The Land of the Kowtowing Suits
Damage control goes out of control...Red Herring rant...cat walk mug shots...thar's gold in them thar ads...reality shucks...

7.13.00
No Everlasting 'Every Flavor Beans'?
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Harry's Wizardry Is No Contest for Wonka's Wisdom
A fizzy lifting tale...stardust memory lapse...reality checks for paper millionaires...something's rotten in the mission...Pepsi girl sips the syrup of forbidden fruit...the pink triangle meets the Circle K...

7.6.00
Remember Me When You Promote and Pander
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PETA Gets in Touch with Spiritual Side
Anti-meat miscreants go below the bible belt...promotional gear reaps gold...wee PBS watchers get branded...propaganda parks beyond beer and chocolate...tapeworms gotta have their Kellogg's...guerilla marketers end up in lock down...

6.29.00
Art is Dead    -- Koons
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Koons is Dead    -- Art
Salacious artist praises cereal packaging...Hasbro marketing hacks stoop to new lows...licensed characters are a special breed...shopping basket surveyors give up...data whore takes her business online...and breast aug ad gets bashed...

6.22.00
Die with Your Bytes on
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Take the Hassle out of Visiting the Dearly Departed
HeavenlyDoor.com lifts spirits and cash all at once...Aussies get tough on ad ambushers...do crullers come with that privacy police badge?...free cars cruise el barrio...and Russel Simmons unleashes the power of hip hop marketing...

6.16.00
eBay Ad Rant
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Auctioneers’ Call to Arms
eBay commoners say, "Flush those ads!"...analyzing the subculture ad sell out...Domino's munchers gets pizza pie co-dependent...marketers facilitate toddler coddling...and the Herring goes to market...

6.9.00
Always Look on the Bright Side of Death
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UK Ad Clearance Centre Inters Morbid Ad
Macabre service appeals to Marilyn Mansonites and Edgar Allen Poseurs...politicians ain't got nothin' on PETA...advertisers force kids into bloated bondage...how ads could wreak havoc on Paris cafe culture...and cyber scabs cross the virtual picket line...

6.2.00
The Sincerest Form of Ad Flattery
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XXXs and OOOs for ILOVEYOU Ad
Did KPMG take a hint from content technologies' ad?...MP3 dishes out the jams...pundits debate self-branding...why Joe Cocker is peeved by an aussie quasi-endorsement...and print ads get digitally encrypted...

5.24.00
Yes, You Too Can Create an Ad in 3 Days!
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Campaign's Immediacy Hits the Mark
Capitalizing on the ILOVEYOU virus pandemonium...how a Saatchi honcho's guidelines could spell extinction for Disney's Dinosaur campaign...why ibelieve.com fell from CBS' good graces...and how online marketers soon will be after shnozes in addition to eyeballs...

5.12.00
“Don't Say That the Car Can Go Underwater.”
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Ad Agency Gets Unwitting Public to Do Its Dirty-work
Lexus marketers get lazy...Ben & Jerry’s social responsibility could go the way of Garcia...how advertisers are closing the shutter on photojournalism...and why Coke is getting blasted from both sides...

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