It still stands out for in-flight massages and clever ads that flirt with bad taste.

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Too bad voters have had to be assaulted by attack ads and hyper-emotion.

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They race around telling a story about their departure that makes them look bad, and then they start frantically answering online job ads.

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According to OpenX CEO Tim Cadogan, with whom I spoke last week, OpenX served 4 trillion ad impressions last year, not a bad basis for Samsung to show the way in cross platform ads.

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Let me just say upfront, we're not going to talk about the whole question of negative ads per se, whether they're good or bad.

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It seems as if a lot of bad publicity arrived on the pharma scene as a result of all the DTC ads.

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Standard PR theory would suggest the company apologize, and step up its good-works marketing, whether giving away money or running more ads touting its commitment to alternate energy research, in order to combat the bad press.

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Now in its 24th year, one of my all-time favorite print ads for the New York Cares Annual Coat Drive continues to show the Statue of Liberty sitting down in bad weather wearing a coat.

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