For the 2011-12 televiseasoneason, it will be the shows, not the ads, that feature creatures out of fairy tales and ghost stories.
That set-aside money is then used to reimburse the customer for something like half the cost of ads that feature the "Intel inside" logo.
At this week's meeting in Berkeley, in the hope of countering the negative image, industry officials recommended a promotion campaign similar to the dairy industry's "Drink Milk" ads that feature basketball and football stars and other celebrities wearing milk mustaches.
A former American Apparel sales associate filed a lawsuit on Wednesday alleging she was sexually harassed by Dov Charney, the company's unconventional chief executive and founder best known for promoting his American-made T-shirts and leggings in provocative ads that feature young women.
In another aspect of the campaign that is meant to play up the youthful brand identity of Glamour, readers of ads that feature images of women's fashions, like denim and leopard prints, will be invited to upload their own photographs to sections of the glamalert.com Web site.
I find it odd that Peyton Manning has seemingly replaced his brother, Eli, in the series of DirecTV N.F.L. Sunday Ticket ads that feature one of the Mannings and Deion Sanders as "football fairies," and I am curious as to what precipitated the change.
