International Business News - Ads http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Already advertising at record levels, Barack Obama has scheduled a half-hour commercial for prime time on Oct. 29, six days before Election Day. Obama campaign officials said the campaign had secured a 30-minute block of time at 8 p.m. on CBS and NBC. CBS already was juggling its lineup to accommodate the Democratic presidential candidate, moving back an episode of "The New Adventures of Old Christine." http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081010/obama-plans-half-hour-tv-ad-days-before-election.htm Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:43:19 EDT Hollywood's biggest annual advertisement for itself--the Academy Awards broadcast--now can carry commercials for movies themselves. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences board voted to allow commercials for movies to air on the Oscar telecast for the first time starting with the Feb. 22 ceremony on ABC, academy spokeswoman Leslie Unger said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081009/your-movie-ad-here-oscars-to-accept-studio-spots.htm Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:29:56 EDT Already advertising at record levels, Barack Obama has scheduled a half-hour commercial for prime time on Oct. 29, six days before Election Day. Obama campaign officials said the campaign had secured a 30-minute block of time at 8 p.m. on CBS and NBC. CBS already was juggling its lineup to accommodate the Democratic presidential candidate, moving back an episode of "The New Adventures of Old Christine." http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/148077-obama-2008.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081009/obamas-ads-have-the-bucks-mccains-have-the-bark.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081009/obamas-ads-have-the-bucks-mccains-have-the-bark.htm Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:53:33 EDT Hollywood's biggest annual advertisement for itself--the Academy Awards broadcast--now can carry commercials for movies themselves. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences board voted to allow commercials for movies to air on the Oscar telecast for the first time starting with the Feb. 22 ceremony on ABC, academy spokeswoman Leslie Unger said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081008/your-movie-ad-here-oscars-to-accept-studio-spots.htm Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:41:55 EDT Nearly every TV ad Republican John McCain ran last week was negative, compared to just 34 percent of those by Democrat Barack Obama, according to an analysis released Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081008/report-obama-outspends-mccain-on-tv-ads.htm Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:08:34 EDT Google Inc., the leader in online search and advertising, is muscling in on video game territory--though it won't exactly be in the form of a shoot 'em up game. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081008/google-gets-into-video-games-with-ads.htm Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:10:25 EDT A phalanx of white-coated doctors endorses Camel cigarettes in an exhibit that opened this week at the New York Public Library. Movie stars and baseball greats are there, too, in tobacco ads dating from the 1920s to the 1950s. Even Santa Claus is there, puffing on a Pall Mall. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/147400-smoking-exhibit-ads.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081008/exhibit-on-cigarette-advertising-opens-in-nyc.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081008/exhibit-on-cigarette-advertising-opens-in-nyc.htm Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:55:06 EDT Google Inc., the leader in online search and advertising, is muscling in on video game territory--though it won't exactly be in the form of a shoot 'em up game. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081008/google-gets-into-video-games-with-ads.htm Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:11:22 EDT Talk about your captive audience. Advertising is coming to the dentist's chair in the form of personal video goggles that patients wear while getting their cleaning or root canal. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/ads-to-the-rescue-as-distraction-from-root-canals.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:42:46 EDT Craving a burrito with sour cream and guacamole? What if you knew it had more than half the calories you should eat in a day? The city Health Department is expanding its healthy-eating campaign with subway ads that say most adults should limit themselves to 2,000 calories day. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/146717-calorie-counting-ads.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/nyc-takes-calorie-counting-campaign-to-the-rails.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/nyc-takes-calorie-counting-campaign-to-the-rails.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:14:45 EDT Alliance Data Systems Corp. said Friday its credit-card banking units locked in $1.4 billion in financing to fund its credit-card portfolio. The company, which also designs customer-loyalty programs, said the money lets it meet its liquidity commitments for this year. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081003/alliance-data-locks-in-1-4b-in-financing.htm Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:18:19 EDT Their messages run the gamut, but an explosion of outside advertising targeting the presidential candidates has the same goal: to provoke voters on issues from abortion and judges to killing wolves and John McCain's age. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081001/independent-groups-aim-at-mccain-obama-in-new-ads.htm Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:39:50 EDT Bill Clinton is playing a starring role in a John McCain commercial. And here's the ad's kicker: "You're right Mr. President." Fancy that. The Republican presidential nominee with a tip of the hat to the last Democratic president. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/142812-mccain-2008.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080930/bill-clinton-in-mccain-ad-leading-role.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080930/bill-clinton-in-mccain-ad-leading-role.htm Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:10:25 EDT Savannah Guthrie filed a hard-hitting report on NBC's "Nightly News" recently questioning the truth of some McCain-Palin campaign statements on the "bridge to nowhere" and Sarah Palin's foreign travel. Guthrie's story challenged the claims in one of McCain's TV commercials. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/142124-mccain-2008.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080929/mccain-obama-ads-on-network-evening-newscasts.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080929/mccain-obama-ads-on-network-evening-newscasts.htm Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:15 EDT Savannah Guthrie filed a hard-hitting report on NBC's "Nightly News" recently questioning the truth of some McCain-Palin campaign statements on the "bridge to nowhere" and Sarah Palin's foreign travel. Guthrie's story challenged the claims in one of McCain's TV commercials. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/141166-mccain-2008.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080928/mccain-obama-ads-on-network-evening-newscasts.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080928/mccain-obama-ads-on-network-evening-newscasts.htm Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:38:12 EDT Alliance Data Systems Corp., a marketing and transaction services company, said Thursday it received a contract from women's clothing chain AnnTaylor Stores Corp. to launch a new co-brand credit card program and to continue providing private-label credit card services. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080925/alliance-data-lands-contract-with-anntaylor-stores.htm Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:47:06 EDT Yahoo Inc. launched a much-anticipated upgrade to its online advertising system Wednesday as it tries to bring to graphical display ads some of the innovations that powered Google Inc.'s rapid rise in search marketing. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/138104-yahoo-ads.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080924/yahoo-launches-major-upgrade-to-display-ad-system.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080924/yahoo-launches-major-upgrade-to-display-ad-system.htm Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:33:45 EDT John McCain and Barack Obama are releasing a daily assault of real and barely aired campaign ads at such a fast clip that the resulting blur threatens to drown out their campaign messages. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/137048-obama-2008.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080923/ads-define-the-day-but-have-short-life.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080923/ads-define-the-day-but-have-short-life.htm Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:24:23 EDT Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain are criticizing each other in new television ads, trying to drive down public opinion of one another with six weeks left in the election. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080922/presidential-candidates-air-attack-ads.htm Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:02:12 EDT Haven't seen all those negative presidential campaign ads the media are fussing over? Chances are you won't. Barack Obama's and John McCain's presidential campaigns are peddling campaign videos as advertising even though they are getting little commercial air time, a review of ads finds. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/132623-obama-2008.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080917/campaign-ads-not-getting-much-air-time.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080917/campaign-ads-not-getting-much-air-time.htm Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:36:43 EDT