Richard Branson Gives Away Yahoo Ads

Yahoo and Richard Branson have teamed to offer one million ads to the winner of a Think Big contest. Any business can submit a 500 word essay making their case. One lucky winner will be chosen and given one million ads across Yahoo network properties.

Search Optimizer Wants Customers to be On Top

It's a well known fact that all marketers prefer to be on top when it comes to search engine results. SEO Inc. has taken this goal to heart attracting AD:TECH visitors to its booth with attractive models wearing tight tops bearing the slogan, "Wanna Be On Top?" While we did resist making a fool of ourselves replying, "Well, of course we do," we felt we had to share this pleasantly uplifting approach to inserting more members into SEO Inc.'s customer base.

Best Buy's Geek Squad Promotion Tied to 'Star Wars'

According to Best Buy's Geek Squad, a computer customer support group, many people skipped work and school to watch the first two prequels of Star Wars. Whether that's true or not, as the May 19th release date approaches, the GeekSqaud is latching on to this last, great movie in the Star Wars franchise by providing a feature where students and employees can customize their own excuse notes to send to their teachers and bosses.

Save The Earth Foundation Launches Annual Auction

To Celebrate its tenth anniversary, Save the Earth Foundation is commemorating its 1995 Earth Day Internet auction with a larger and grander auction occurring both online and offline. Over 200 celebrity-autographed items in music, sports and rare merchandise will be auctioned live on radio stations across the U.S. and online on at savetheearth.net to benefit the Save the Earth Foundation.

This year the Save the Earth Foundation has added a new Hip Hop and Pop element to its auction by working with K-DAY 93.5 in Los Angeles to promote the online auction on Overstock.com of 10 microphones autographed by the biggest stars in Hip Hop and Pop: Dr. Dre, 50 Cent, Snoop Dog, Jay-Z, Nelly, Ice Cube, Eminem, Beyonce, Christina Aquilera, and Jennifer Lopez.

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Book Promoted Along Side Group Toke

Latching on to a group toke scheduled for 4:20 PM on April 20, cause group Magic Propaganda Mill is promoting It's Just A Plant, a controversial children's book about marijuana written by Ricardo Cortes, with a "Box of Weed: 5 for $50" offer which consists of a box filled with five copies of the book for $50.

Predictably, the book has experienced an uphill battle since its inception with publishers refusing to publish, press analyzing it and politicians using it as a crutch in their pro and con drug positions. To a kid, it is just a plant. A plant worth learning about sooner than later.

Wal-Mart Gets Jiggy With Singles Night

Try as we might, we can't seem to envision the words "hot date" and "Wal-Mart" in the same sentence. But Bentonville, Arkansas Wal-Mart has been combining the two for over a year now with their Friday night date night during which those in search of a mate place red ribbons on their shopping carts that scream, "I'm a loser!"...we mean..."I'm available!" in order to mingle with other red ribboners. OK, so flirting in a store is all good but slapping a billboard on oneself announcing the intent just takes all the fun out of the game.