Yes, it's round two of the trivia game, a chance to show off your adgrunt skills, impress everyone with your ad trivia and win a 20-pack of Jewelboxings! Last weeks winner was Shoepal.

Ask a question about advertising that contains the answer to the previous question. Simple as that.
We'll pick a post each week for the next two weeks (this is round two remember?) and send them a Jewelboxing 20pack free of charge.

watch out for wrong answers - last weeks game we sorta got a split chain there for a while. ;) If you see a wrong answer, and can provide the correct one, better do that.

Round three, the final round, of the trivia game, a chance to show off your adgrunt skills, impress everyone with your ad trivia and win a 20-pack of Jewelboxings! Last weeks winner was Claymore - congrats to our resident rhyming poet.

Ask a question about advertising that contains the answer to the previous question. Simple as that.
We'll pick a post and send them a Jewelboxing 20pack free of charge.

Watch out for wrong answers! And remember, rhyming isn't a requirement but if you wanna go nuts, by all means..... Go nuts!

A beauty company is finally listening to it's customers- women. Tired of being bombarded by stick-skinny models, women have spoken out in a survey in which "Dove found 83% of women were concerned that models in beauty adverts did not actually use the products they were promoting.
Over half wanted more curvy women in adverts and 56% said they felt better about themselves when they saw adverts featuring women with figures similar to their own."

This new ad campaign, which breaks today in London, features billboards showing a curvaceous woman in white underwear and the line: "New Dove Firming. As tested on real curves."

Izvestia writes that this ad, from the Russian Finance magazine was banned with immediate effect in Moscow. The poster company had to tear down a 100 posters overnight after receiving a stern letter from Igor Presnyakov, chairman of the Moscow Committee for advertising and information.
Igor (and probably anyone else who saw it) thought the image depicted a sex scene, while the magazines publisher said: "I thought the currencies were dancing on our poster". A cossack dance, maybe....

Barnardo's uses shock tactics to tackle child poverty, this strategy has backfired. More than 60 people contacted the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) through its website, and dozens of people called the within hours of the ads appearing.

The first in the series of newspaper adverts from Barnardo's shows a new-born baby with a cockroach crawling out of his mouth. Another advert in the "silver spoons" campaign features a baby with a methylated spirits bottle in its mouth while a third shows a baby with a syringe.

The headline on the adverts says: "There are no silver spoons for children born into poverty." Read more to see the ads.

After seeing Grey Aukland's Cannes award winning ad for No Bugs insect spray, I thought I had seen something very similar before, besides the Gary Larson cartoon. Combing through Luerzer's Archive, I found it. Compare them for yourself.

Goodbye 2003. Hello 2004.

In the land of advertising, we saw some interesting things during 2003. Twins selling beer. Catfights selling beer and TV shows. A slew of banned advertisements. Backlash at the fast food industry and their selling techniques. Fake ads making their way around the net. A continuation of layoffs in a stagnant economy. Super Bowl ads that were overall lacking in the creativity of previous years. Anti-Hummer and anti-SUV advertisements. California recall madness from companies like Taco Bell, Mentos, and Reebok. More ads being "inappropriately entered" in award shows. New advertising media from homeless cardboard signs to human heads. Fake graffiti for Nissan and Napster, in an attempt to get "street cred". The peak of x-fever, or so we hope. Advertisers seeking sponsorships, like The Restaurant, to create adver-shows to get around the threat of TiVO. But between the good, the bad, ugly, and bizarre, there was much to talk about, watch, and absorb.

(Click on "Read More" to, well, read more. You know you want to. )

More of the Adland Roundup for 2003. Enjoy.