Hong Kong-based Asiacontent.com has a deal with U.S.-based online ad group DoubleClick to roll out the brand across the region.
If that decision had been made by a standing group of experts instead of an ad hoc group, it would have drawn less scrutiny.
The Ad Hoc Group was charged with addressing the science-related recommendations of the report.
Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations Secretary-General, tasked Irina Bokova to convene an Ad Hoc Group to advise him on the science-related recommendations of the Report.
The Director-General started by assembling an ad hoc group of UN agencies with substantive science portfolios and leaders of major international scientific bodies to provide advice.
With each passing year, the ad-hoc group gets stronger economically and politically in world affairs.
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The report recommends the creation of an ad hoc working group on science and traditional knowledge.
The idea for its commercial, however, may not be one cooked up by E-Trade ad agency Grey Group.
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Ads from bbdo, a unit of ad giant Omnicom Group, emphasize E-Trade's mutual funds, money-market accounts and research capabilities.
It looks to be a low-cost, high-volume Marketplace ad for a group dedicated to advocating for gun ownership rights.
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The ad from the group Scott founded says Americans want to choose their own doctors, have competition and know prices and performance upfront.
Ads from bbdo, a unit of ad giant Omnicom Group (nyse: OMC - news - people ), emphasize E-Trade's mutual funds, money-market accounts and research capabilities.
And 2011 looks maybe even better: in the first quarter, SI Golf Group ad revenue is expected to jump 20%, thanks to new ad buys by Nike Golf and Mizuno, among others.
But for its urgency, the breadth of the music performed admirably by the ad-hoc group of musicians, and how Mr. Springsteen is determined to inspire brotherhood with what he perceives as traditional American and Christian ideals, "Wrecking Ball" is a triumph.
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Professor Martin Price, Chair of the UK MAB Committee and UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Mountain Development at the University of the Highlands and Islands, played a key role in the development of the strategy, acting as Rapporteur of the ICC Session and participating in an ad hoc working group comprised of representatives from 20 countries.
The Hispanic Leadership Fund also fired back against Dewhurst's latest ad, saying Cruz has never had any position with the group and faulted the ad as dishonest.
The challenge is building as much influence as possible over what people are saying about you, a concern that has U.S. companies now putting a third of their online budgets into their own sites, double what they spend on search-engine marketing, says ad-spending research group Outsell.
The brand launched a new national TV commercial from its ad agency, Interpublic Group of Cos.
Competitors like Advanced Wireless Group offer free ad-supported access in some U.S. airports.
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Shortly after his noncompete agreement expired with Interpublic Group, the ad holding company, he approached top brass at Tesco in late 2005.
"First of all, it has to have huge sticking power, " said Linda Kaplan Thaler, CEO and chief creative officer of New York ad agency the Kaplan Thaler Group.
But the group's ad blitz turned out to be one new ad, and it wasn't clear whether America Deserves Better has the money to put it on the air.
NBC's The Restaurant, this summer's six-episode reality show about a New York bistro, is the first prime-time series in decades produced in part by an ad agency, the Interpublic Group of Cos.
Nielsen, for example, measures consumers who saw an ad on Facebook and compares them with a similar control group of Facebook users who didn't see the ad.
The Internet is much more effective at testing offers and ad creative than a contrived focus group.
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If you wanted to test a campaign ad, you held a focus group.
Three agencies owned by mega public ad holding company, Omnicom Group, were also tapped for three top honors.
Data for the study come from the Campaign Media Analysis Group, which tracks ad spending in the top 75 markets.
The BRICS as a group is largely an ad-hoc one, but the individual nations are increasingly aware of their potential to emerge as a new force in world affairs thanks to their strong economies and combined population.
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