• Slashfood has a picture of and some more details on Dreyer's Ice Cream's "American Idol" themed new flavors.
• Joystiq points to at least five or six major hurdles the PS3 faces when it launches in Europe.
• Also from Joystiq comes word that Nintendo is partnering with Six Flags to provide free Wii game play stations at select park locations.
• Autoblog says that, instead of focusing on what logo to use, Mercury is more interested in getting the product they create done well.
  
• Bob at TV Squad has a major problem with a commercial for "Guiding Light" giving away the payoff on a previous episode's cliffhanger.
• The Navy is about to start delivering recruitment ads via wireless devices according to The Wireless Report.
• Yeah, I'm with Blogging Stocks in not being surprised that advertisers are beginning to register their complaints with Yahoo's new Panama ad platform.
  
• PVR Wire weighs in on TiVo reupping their ad deal with Lexus.

• Mercedes is once again looking for a new VP of sales according to AutoBlog.
  
• Also over at AutoBlog is a very cool promotion for the BMW Mini that personalizes an outdoor billboard with a message based on personalized information you submit.
• Engadget says that if you find yourself thinking about a Texas Instrument DLP it's because the company has put that logo on anything that didn't run away from them.
• Both BloggingStocks and Gadling weigh in on the TSA's plans to put advertising on the bottom of airport security bins.
• BloggingStocks also puts their perspective on the rebranding of Cingular by at&t, which Tom covered here.
• Finally from the StocksBlogging crew comes a whole mess of good ideas for Wal-Mart that includes them going on the offensive with their advertising.

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• Joystiq points to an advergame for Lynx body spray where you can blow the top off of an attractive young lady over and over again.
  
• Engadget's rockin' coverage of the Stevenote at MacWorld included some peaks at new Apple ads that poke fun at Microsoft's Vista.
• Styledash laments the fact that someone as once ubiquitous and still stunningly beautiful as Cindy Crawford is now doing ads for the Turkish leather industry.
• Also via Styledash comes news that Bebe Sport has signed "Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria for their new ad campaign.
• Slashfood weighs in on Coke's newly found love for their Coke Zero and how they're looking at the brand for some renewed market strength.
• The Digital Music Weblog interviews Pandora CTO Tom Conrad about how the online streaming music service is now inserting ads within streams.
• Download Squad tackles that story as well.
• BloggingStocks thinks the announcement of a new ad network combining a number of newspaper publishers would have been better had it come five years ago.
• BloggingStocks also wonders, although not in so many words, what Fabio has on the Unilever company that they keep him employed.
• Make sure your nutritional drinks do what you claim they do is the advice from That's Fit.

• The United Kingdom, according to Slashfood, is about to introduce advertising regulations that would put cheese in the "junk food" category.
  
• Engadget talks about Head & Shoulders introducing a photo booth that alerts you to any dandruff you might have, thereby ensuring you have a lousy day.
• Blogging Stocks says that the much-touted redesign of the Wall Street Journal, meant largely to lower print expenses when it's online where the ad revenue is, comes about three years too late to really mean anything.
  
• Blogging Stocks also points out that while eBay has survived largely on its good user reputation, many critical voices have been muffled by the true believers.
  
• Lots of good stuff from the BS crew, with this piece on how there might not be the advertiser support for Fox's upcoming business channel debut.
• TV Squad has a screen shot of the web promotion CBS has up for "CSI: Miami," the next run of which will feature some character shifts that are alluded to in this Beatles-esque picture.
• TUAW mentions that Apple was named by MediaPost to be their "Marketer of the Year."
• Slashfood says scented ads, especially scent-infused packaging, are just going to become more and more common.
• Joystiq talks about Burger King's crowing over selling two million King-themed Xbox games.

• Bob at TV Squad provides a little background on the guy who played "Peter" in those classic Christmas-themed Folger's Coffee commercial.
• Also at TVS, Joel points to another list from Giant Magazine of 50 more of the greatest commercials.
• Both Engadget and PSP Fanboy dive into the fake blog created by Sony for their PSP. The blog initially seemed to be from a fan who wanted to get a buddy a PSP but turned out to be corporately produced.
  
• Engadget also is providing their own take on the DirecTV/Time Warner false-advertising kerfluffle that we talked about previously.
• And one more from Engadget: This time it's about an outdoor LED billboard that was powered by someone pedaling away on a stationary bike.

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• Blogging Stocks says that former New York mayor (and likely 2008 Presidential candidate) Rudy Gulliani has been hired by Circuit City to promote their Firedog home electronics expertise practice.
  
• The guys at BS (heh) are also talking about how CNBC's Jim Cramer is hot on an outdoor advertising firm that is well positioned with new media technologies. Of course Cramer also likes very old-media companies as well.
  
• Joystiq let's out a tremendous "well duh!" over an article that says games like Halo 3 are going to be big sellers. They also mention that even games set in the distant past can get in-game ad dollars - it just requires a bit of creative thinking.
• PVR Wire passes on an early rejected ad from TiVo that mocks the very idea of network programmers still having control over TV watching schedules. PVW is also giving us more details on TiVo's "program placement" product and passes along the discontent they and other people are feeling over Comcast putting ads on their program guide.
  

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• Slashfood is creeped out by an Xbox game from Burger King that features The King sneaking around forcing hamburgers down the throats of passers-by.
• Sony, according to TUAW, has co-opted Apple's "Mac Vs. PC" style and added a third character, the Vaio, in an effort to differentiate itself from the rest of the personal computing market.
• Joystiq raises a couple of issues with the latest ad from Circuit City promoting the Playstation 3.
• Joystiq also puts in their two cents on the Double Fusion/Take Two ad placement deal.
  
• Our friends at PVR Wire are pointing out how TiVo, by adding more and more advertising to the user experience, is actually drifting away from the whole point behind people's purchase of a TiVo.
• Break.com and their plan to pay people for short films gets some press on DVGuru.
• TV Squad mentions Comedy Central has picked up the animated series "L'il Bush." The concept started out as a series of shorts produced by Amp'd Mobile.
• Also at TV Squad comes word that the soap opera "Days of Our Lives" will be holding a contest asking viewers to name the baby of a main character.
• According to Blogging Stocks, KISS guitarist Paul Stanley is selling signature guitars at Target.
• Blogging Baby weighs in on the issue of pediatricians calling for a ban on fast-food advertising to kids.

• Joystiq has a couple good posts up. First, the 11/28 broadcast of ESPN's "SportsCenter" was brought to viewers solely by Microsoft on behalf of the Xbox360. They also pass on the opinion that in-game advertising should make those video games either free or greatly reduced in price.
• PVR Wire weighs in on Match.com's sponsorship of the TBS sitcom "My Boys" and reminds everyone to keep their product placement deals above board and obvious.
• Styledash talks about the Miu Miu campaign that won't be featuring Jessica Simpson.
• The folks at Slashfood are seeing a huge picture of the KFC Colonel in the desert, which is disturbing on at least a couple different levels.
• Cinematical has a "WTF moment" over the dropping of ads for The Nativity Story from a German Christmas festival in Chicago.

• Slashfood explores 2007's likely food trends, including a heavy emphasis on the marketing of foods whose ingredients come from the Amazon region and other such exotic locales.
• An ad for the PSP game system popped up on MarthaStewart.com and PSP Fanboy has a screengrab along with with comments about how Sony's marketing the item to moms.
• Blogging Baby points out that rapper 50 Cent has a problem with guns being OK on the posters for every movie but his own.
• TV Squad talks about the old sitcom "Bosom Buddies," with Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari playing two cross-dressing advertising execs, coming to DVD.
• The growing rise of advergames by companies is touched on by our friends at Joystiq.
• PVR Wire has a ton of good posts up, including a YouTube channel of TiVo promos, this note on Charter Communication's new VOD advertising program, a study showing that DVRs won't mean the end of TV commercials, an ad from Radio Shack for a Series 2 TiVo and a DirecTV ad from Uruguay.
• Styledash wonders just how much of the excitement over the "right-hand ring" is due to consumer demand or marketing hype.

• While the marketing campaign for girl-focused video games is indeed insulting to everyone, it's merely a symptom of the shoddy games that are actually produced for girls according to DS Fanboy.
• Cinematical has the details on director David Lynch's weird - and I mean weird - cow-focused promotional campaign for his new film Inland Empire.
• TV Squad points us to the just plain funny Japanese version of Apple's "Mac Vs. PC" ads.
• Also at TV Squad is this story about Nielsen's attempt to get into measuring video-on-demand now that it's becoming a viable ad medium.
• Then there's this post from Joel about last Thursday's night of a thousand product placements on NBC.
• Cinematical says Philip Morris is taking out ads asking the movie industry to no longer use its cigarette brands in movies. This is a total PR move since the actual way this happens is by talking to the studios and not taking out general ads, even if they are in trade publications.
• PSP Fanboy looks at the new Sony ad that has a man chasing after the girl of his dreams - one that plays video games.
• chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga, Gooogllllle!
• While pointing to a new commercial that uses footage from Office Space to sell the World of Warcraft video game, Cinematical also questions how much longer the use of dead celebrity footage can last before someone really angers the film community.

• PVR Wire talks about BlackArrow, a company that allows for dynamic and changing ad insertion within TV shows on the web.
  
• Blogging Ohio says that about 90 people at the Columbus Dispatch will lose their jobs when the paper outsources the design of their local advertising.
• Engadget speculates on how a special concrete that's embedded with light fibers could be used for light-display advertising on the sides of office buildings.
  
• Engadget continues its coverage of outdoor advertising by showing off Leo Burnett's billboards that feature mascara that runs when it rains.
• According to Download Squad, Boxbe lets people sign-up to get what amount to junk emails. The catch is that you're opting-in and the companies sending out the emails are charged a fee, which the end-user then splits with Boxbe.
• Also at Download Squad we learn of Google's idea that cell phones should be free in exchange for people opting in to targeted advertising.
• Starbucks "Cheerpass" holiday promotion gets another look thanks to Slash Food.
• Joystiq says Nintendo plans to spend over $200 million to promote their new Wii game console in an effort to not let it slip into obscurity. It's not all about advertising, though, with several events, product placement opportunities and more.
• Joystiq also complains about how high-quality screenshots from video games are not exactly accurate representations of game-play.
• Joel at TV Squad calls NBC's promotions department a "bunch of putzes" for spoiling most of the surprise guest stars on this past weekend's episode of "Saturday Night Live."
• Joel also passes on a list of perfectly good pop songs that were ruined by being included in awful commercials.
• Blogging Stocks says Time Inc.'s ad revenue was down overall in October and the rest of the fourth quarter ain't looking any better.

• Tateru Nino at Second Life Insider looks at how companies are simply repeating the past in their entry into Second Life. He also points out that if you simply extend lousy real world marketing into the virtual one you're not really doing anyone any favors.
  
• Johnathan Forester at Slashfood picks up on the story about companies using scents to promote their products in stores.
  
• Adam Finley at TV Squad gripes (rightly) about how Charlie Brown and Kermit the Frog will not be in this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. In their place? Pickachu and the Energizer Bunny. Yeah, I just had a stroke too.
• Also at TVS, Joel Keller is sick of Christmas ads already. Considering it's not even two weeks into November, I think Joel's got some heavy drinking ahead of him to get through the Christmas season.
• Chris Gilmor at Download Squad takes a look at Google's newspaper advertising plans.
• At Engadget Mobile Chris Ziegler looks at Blyk, another service that offers users wireless minutes in exchange for watching advertisements.
• Grant Robertson has the lowdown on how Microsoft is seeking out 300 of the coolest 18-24 year olds to help with college campus and online promotions for their new Zune tune player.
  
• The Auto Blog's John Neff wonders whether a video on YouTube featuring Ford is from the car company itself or not and also looks at a Nissan video that channels skating superstar Tony Hawk.
• Also at Auto Blog, Brian Liolia weighs in the HD-DVD advertising Progressive Insurance is getting in on. We talked about this yesterday.