To that end, Brand USA is launching the first-ever ad campaign for travel to the United States.
The US office launched its first ever TV ad in March in 9 small to mid-sized markets, including Austin and Seattle.
Which raises this question: If it was never paid for, how did this incendiary ad ever run on television?
The first political ad ever aired on MTV went on this past week, and it is quite a doozy.
But the company is not running its first-ever Super Bowl ad to convince more Americans to jump into the real estate game necessarily.
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The second most-complained about ad ever is for shopping channel Auction World , which attracted 1, 360 complaints focusing on poor customer service, misleading guide prices and delays in delivery of goods.
Hey, the last time these guys were hip was the year before Steve Jobs' proxy (the famous lady runner) launched a hammer into IBM's image in 1984 in the most famous Super Bowl ad ever run.
Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple - Opera today joined the ranks of those web giants as the company unveiled the most expensive ad ever created by the company to promote the launch of the Opera 11.10 browser.
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The delay with U.S. carriers is awkward timing for RIM, which will air its first-ever Super Bowl ad on Sunday as part of a plan to spend "several hundreds of million" dollars into marketing around the launch of the two new phones, Mr. Heins said.
With what they call "enhanced underwriting, " the spots have grown from "the following program is brought to you by a grawnt (yes, grawnt) from Mobil" -- which I still think is the best ad ever written in 12 words or less -- to full-blown productions showing products and services that could and do run on commercial TV.
The spot was was the first car ad to ever win the top prize, the Grand Prix, at Cannes.
The two-screen commentary that goes with that that can amplify the ads to greater heights than any traditional TV ad could ever achieve.
Her best friend growing up found the note and the two have been reminiscing ever since about listening ad nauseum to an Abba Album as teenagers, as well as other fond memories.
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Google took a giant step forward on that road when it announced this week some of the biggest changes ever to its AdWords ad system, which is responsible for the majority of its revenue.
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With on-demand access to over 18 million songs, Rdio connects people with music and makes it easy to search for and instantly play any song, album, artist, or playlist without ever hearing a single ad.
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Historically speaking, few argue that being challenged was ever a good thing for an ad.
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It is the first time Century 21 has ever taken out a Super Bowl ad.
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Native advertising is changing the economics of digital journalism, offering publishers an alternative to the ever-more-devalued display ad.
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Now the Salvation Army is in the midst of the biggest ad campaign it has ever run, trumpeting its good works.
But when Gizmodo asks if it's "the dumbest tech ad you've ever seen, " maybe it wasn't exactly the 108-yard touchdown run of advertising.
The answer is social computing, which views a company not as a static org chart and a number of interconnected process flows but rather as a social network with ad-hoc and ever changing relationships and interactions.
Armed to the teeth with technology and empowered by social media platforms the consumer responds to authentic brands by championing them and building a voice in the marketplace louder than any ad campaign we could ever conger up.
It was the alarming success of Apple Computer's iPod and iTunes music store that helped prompt the latest challenge from Apple Corps, although the two companies have been sparring ever since George Harrison spotted an ad for Apple Computer in a magazine in 1980.
Ever since it bought the display-ad serving system DoubleClick in 2007, Google has been steadily buying up more pieces of the online ad-buying process beyond its core search ads.
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Instead of feeling discouraged, the ad makers are trying harder than ever to grab the attention of those speeding by on the information superhighway.
In pursuit of ever closer union, Mr Delors and his staff set up ad hoc groups, bypassed chains of command and outsourced tasks to whoever could get them done.
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Especially telling, Ford would not likely run an ad that, based on typically immense research and testing, would ever reach unacceptably divisive levels.
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Doubts remain that Twitter's ad business which is about two years old will ever be as big as Facebook's or Google's.
It is of course ever so slightly embarrassing that the bug should manifest itself just as Apple launches an ad campaign featuring the function.
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