Virgin Plays With Itself, Mannequins Play With Themselves

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-Virgin Atlantic goes overboard playing with its own nine inches of pleasure in a new campaign from Eight Partnership.

– imulus wonders why advertisers haven’t figured out podcast advertising and offers up a few suggestions.

– If you like hot looking mannequins in hot looking lingerie in hot looking poses, you’ll like this print campaign for blush lingerie.

– That Silly Girl weighs in on the stereotypical idiocy of the STA Travel Body Shots thing and why Leo Burnett might want to take its weather-dependent Max Factor billboard to earthquake laden San Francisco.

Cynopisis reports, “Nielsen has just completed its first Product Placement Valuation Study, which is part of its Anytime Anywhere Media Measurement (A2/M2) initiative. Of interest in the study, 57.5% of viewers recognized a brand when seeing a product placement in combination with a commercial. That’s in comparison to 46.6% who only saw the commercial for that brand. The results suggests product placement adds to the value of traditional advertising.”

– Michael Crichton does the fake company, fake video thing to promote his new genetic engineering-focused novel.

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