When overall ad expenditures took a nosedive in 1991, Nike and Reebok were busy playing advertising chicken, with each company increasing its budget to outspend the other.
He appeared as an FBI agent in The Town with Ben Affleck; after receiving "about 40 scripts that were all set in the 60s, or had me playing advertising guys", Hamm was pleased that the film offered a role "the opposite to Don Draper".
The US actress, 38, was appearing on late-night talk show Conan to promote the upcoming season seven premiere of Mad Men, in which she plays advertising office manager Joan Holloway.
The survey also found that some energy companies, like British Gas, Scottish Power and SSE, play advertising messages while customers wait.
"If the government are going to go into advertising then they must expect to play by advertising rules, and advertising rules require a level of consistency with the known facts," says Steve Hewlett, presenter of BBC Radio 4's Media Show.
Since then he has found ways to adapt Bach, Beethoven, Aaron Copland and Thelonious Monk to the accordion, and makes a living teaching music and playing on advertising jingles.
It's unclear if in the future, however, current search advertisers will be given preference to join the Google Play advertising program when it opens up to more participants.
And, he adds, this is a public service offering rather than a commercial play: advertising revenue tends to dry up around December 20.
With the recent conclusion of Google-DoubleClick deal, it looks like the massive consolidation of pure-play advertising deals is trickling down.
News, heavily influenced by pay for play advertising.
Four of these events are actions that occur on the sites the media companies run: Pages displayed, search queries entered, videos played, and advertising displayed.
