Browsers Filter, Cabs Bulled, Sprint Hunts, ‘O.C.’ Dies

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– A case is made for the implementation of browser level ad filtering.

– New York City cabs get decked out like bulls to promote televised bull riding on cable channel Versus.

– Sprint is on the hunt for a new creative agency for its $1.6 billion creative account.

– Advertising Age’s Jonah Bllom likes the new Wall Street Journal.

– Qwest won’t jack you up, mobsters recycle, Mini beats SUV in bullfight and more new commercial in Advertising Age’s TV Spot of the Week.

– Merrill Lynch says U.S. ad spending will increase 2.9 percent in 2007. Traditional slows but isn’t dead.

– In response to FOX’s cancellation of The O.C., tweens and teens mourn throughout the nation.

– England has now banned the advertising of cheese during children’s programming.

– The Webber Dance School is has placed footstep patterns on treadmills in health club so people can try to learn the steps while working out on the treadmill. Nifty, indeed.

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