On her Web site, Ms. Palmer had previously advertised for string, brass and saxophone players to join her performances for the joy of it.
What could help AARP's marketing message make inroads among those with the advertising purse strings is the erosion of a long-held belief among marketers that older Americans are too set in their ways to change brands.
And in fact, when Google tried to stop paying commissions a few years ago, there was an uproar from the agencies (who control the advertising purse strings of most of all the large companies).
The three provinces are bounded by some of Asia's most backward economies Mongolia, the Russian far east and North Korea and their interior is a desolate landscape of idle factories and laid-off workers who stand along the roadside with placards advertising their skills strung around their necks.
The UK advertising regulator received a string of complaints about the ad, which led Australian tourism minister Fran Bailey to accuse the British of lacking a sense of humour.
And AOL has sought to further the success of Advertising.com by buying a string of online advertising companies.
PAGE A17 Obituaries LEO GREENLAND, 91 He was an advertising executive known for a string of evocative campaigns of the late 20th century and for public advocacy of truthfulness in his profession.
Leo Greenland, an advertising executive known for a string of evocative campaigns of the late 20th century and for public advocacy of truthfulness in his profession, a faintly subversive stance on Madison Avenue at midcentury, died on June 4 in Manhattan.
I am sure Mozart would be astonished to see his portrait stamped on thousands of sickly chocolates across Austria, Bach nonplussed to find his "Air on a G String" used in advertising and Shakespeare amazed that his plots, quotes and characters have gone many times around the world and been transmuted into musicals, operas and – even – pornographic films.
It was just the latest move in AOL's shopping spree: Excluding Bebo, it had already spent $1 billion on acquisitions in the last year or so, largely for its newly formed advertising group, Platform A. The string of deals comes as Microsoft's bid for Yahoo has heightened speculation about AOL's fate.
