WPP Bids $2.2 Billion For TNS, Agency Dating Examined, Pig Spews

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– What is that white stuff on the back of the woman in this Trojan ad? It’s not what you think but pigs and white stuff do make a compelling condom ad.

– WPP has made a $2.2 billion hostile takeover bid for research company Taylor Nelson Sofres.

– Want some more IKEA website freakiness? Check out this new site where two dudes dance backwards and do other weird things inside a closet the size of a room.

– Adland’s Dabitch comments on the incessant use of bikinied boobs to sell product and why, in many cases, “ad supported sites = titty.”

– Daily Ad Biz ponders the possibilities, practicalities and pitfalls of intra-holding company dating.

– Courtesy of digital agency Ralph (who the hell named that agency??), comes yet another Dexter freak out called The Dexter Hit List.

– Microsoft is planning to spend $300 million to tell people Vista doesn’t suck.

– Will marketers make the same mistakes they did in Second Life with Google’s virtual world Lively?

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