From the early 1940s to the late 1950s, there were scores of Sunday strip-style magazine ads for Cream of Wheat using the Abner characters, and in the 1950s, Fearless Fosdick became a spokesman for Wildroot Cream-Oil hair tonic in a series of daily strip-style print ads.

Thousands of dollars were raised to purchase ads in the The Washington Post and Sunday The New York Times, featuring an image of the head of a statue of Apollo and reading: " Costas Poisoned Olympic Spirit, Public Protests NBC.

As part of the film's promotional campaign, some ads were placed in music magazines from fake music collectors claiming to be looking for albums from the band.

Nasworthy commissioned artist Jim Evans to do a series of paintings promoting Cadillac Wheels, they were featured as ads and posters in the resurrected Skateborder magazine, and proved immensely popular in promoting the new style of skateboarding.

This advertising campaign continued until the late 1960s but, as they were targeted to children, discontinued in favour of ads promoting the product to all ages.

In spite of this prediction, banner ads were valued and sold based on the number of impressions they generated.

In the Soviet Union, ZX Spectrum clones were assembled by thousands of small start-ups and distributed through poster ads and street stalls.

Display ads for the CPRR and UPRR the week the rails were joined on May 19, 1869 UPRR & CPRR " Great American Over-Land Route " Timetable cover 1881When the golden spike was driven, the rail network was not yet connected to the Atlantic or Pacific, but merely connected Omaha and Sacramento.

Under Toscani's direction, ads were created that contained striking images unrelated to any actual products being sold by the company.

The ads were in response to Goldwater's advocacy of " tactical " nuclear weapons use in Vietnam.

These new ads made the Economist's advertisers feel that they were targeting a high-end market, made readers feel part of a special club, and made potential readers feel that they were missing out.

Other singles from the album include " Blood In Alphabet Soup " and " No One's Boy ", both were featured on promotional ads for MP3.

In 2009, the Phoenix Mercury became the first professional basketball team to feature advertisements on their uniform when they sold an ad to LifeLock Insurance on the front of their jerseys, leading many people to wonder if ads on NBA uniforms were coming soon.

In overview, the works for the double album in this period were intended to be packaged in a plain brown wrapper, with a ' strictly personal ' over-stamp and addressed in a manner that could have connotations of drug content, pornographic or illicit material ; As per the small ads of the time ; " It comes to you in a plain brown wrapper ".

There were other ads with the same nostalgic tone.

In both cases, the methodologies were not clear from the ads, such as whether simulcasts on one or both of the networks ’ news channels ( Newsworld for CBC, Newsnet for CTV ) were counted.

In 1979, the Dungeon Master's Guide was published, and radio ads featuring " Morley the Wizard " were broadcast.

Other characters in the original ads were voiced by Ward Studio veterans June Foray, Bill Scott, and Paul Frees.

Ransom was a planned community ; ads were placed in the Streator Monitor as early as 1876 calling for shopkeepers, craftsmen, and tradesmen.

" The ads were so popular that the team, its coach, and octogenarian fan Dale Jenkins, all of whom were featured on the commercials, appeared on The Tonight Show on March 15, 2004.

Most common of these were the 900 barns painted with ads for Rock City.

The fair focused on the emerging new middle class represented by the Middleton Family --- Bud, Babs and their two children appeared in ads showing them taking in the sights of the fair and the new products being manufactured to make life easier and affordable, such as the new automatic dishwasher and Elecktro, a walking, talking robot.

Many of their ads are focused at stopping teenagers from obtaining alcohol, and to press on people under 25 showing identification.

The ads focused on Turner's leadership struggles, and combined with over $ 6 million CAD in pro-FTA ads, managed to stop the Liberals ' momentum.

Finally, rarely in their advertising history have they used negative or comparison ads pertaining to any of their competitors ; the ads have always focused on McDonald's alone, one exception being a 2009 billboard advertising the new McCafe espresso.

Though virtually all campaign media are sometimes used at all levels ( even candidates for local office have been known to purchase cable TV ads ), smaller, lower-budget campaigns are typically more focused on direct mail, low-cost advertising ( such as lawn signs ), and direct voter contact.

Ventura spent around $ 300, 000 and combined it with an aggressive grassroots campaign that featured a statewide bus tour, pioneered use of the Internet for political purposes, and aired quirky TV ads designed by Bill Hillsman, who forged the phrase “ Don ’ t vote for politics as usual .” Unable to afford many television ads, Ventura mainly focused on televised debates and public appearances, preaching his brand of libertarian politics.

Many campaign ads also focused mostly on attacking the opposing parties.

Similarly the mass-media ads aired in 2008 and 2011 were focused on claims that more jobs would be created by high-carbon " dirty oil " projects than by energy conservation which tends to result in more construction industry, renovation and smart home / smart grid jobs.

The first direct marketing focused ads were sold by David Hyman to Virtual Vineyards.

The GEICO company has created a series of television ads that are built around proverbs, such as " A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ": and " The pen is mightier than the sword "

Most of Akshay Kumar's ads for ' Thums Up ' brand feature him jumping and climbing around buildings and vehicles.

Computers are also used for playing ads, jingles, bumpers, soundbites, phone calls, sound effects, traffic and weather reports, and now full broadcast automation when nobody is around.

Though the club was only advertised through small ads in the back of music magazines, Lomax immediately began to receive hundreds of impassioned letters from around the world written by people who felt touched by Van Zandt.

In 2003, the Gray Panthers took out full page newspaper ads around the country, including The Washington Post and The Washington Times asking federal officials to stop awarding federal contracts to MCI WorldCom.

The designation " Flatiron District " for this area is of relatively recent vintage, dating from around 1985, and came about because of its increasingly residential character, and the influx of many restaurants into the area – real estate agents needed an appealing name to call the area in their ads.

Sports mascots and cheerleaders are usually present in most ads, often seen casually milling around in the background, but occasionally they take on an active role:

According to ads from Popular Song magazine in the 1930s, around this time Ouspenskaya also opened the " Maria Ouspenskaya School of Dance " on Vine Street in Los Angeles.

Peak FM launched a major marketing campaign in May 2007 with 48 foot posters, bus backs and bus stop ads around the TSA and took delivery of a marked up new Mini Clubman.

The plot revolves around Budapest shop employees Georg Nowack and Amalia Balash who, despite being consistently at odds with each other at work, are unaware that each is the other's secret pen pal met through lonely-hearts ads.

As part of the publicity campaign around the release of the film, Universal Pictures sponsored a contest, by placing magazine ads, to find some of the rare remaining " One of One Thousand " Model 1873 Winchester rifles.

Early television ads touting the new engine's abilities showed video of a limited edition Oldsmobile Calais ( called the " GMO Quad-4 ") racing around city streets.

Early television ads touting the new engine's abilities showed video of the Calais GMO Quad-4 racing around city streets ( the submodel was dropped, however the Quad-4 engine continued to be available for several years afterward ).

By 1979, some American keyboardists and music industry professionals-still enticed by the 1976 / 77 ads for the Birotron, had begun quests looking for it through business management and sales agents, and in music stores around the country-only to be told nothing had come in or had ever been seen.

The two Levi's ads cost around two or three million francs each.

The pitfalls of running IEs and campaigns at the same time were illustrated when NCPAC was sued for running ads in early 1982 against New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan — around the same time as Finkelstein was working for GOP Senate candidate Bruce Caputo.

In March 1999 Budweiser released a CD, " Frank & Louie's Greatest Hits ," featuring songs such as Sweet Home Alabama, My Sharona, and Rock This Town woven around alternate takes of some of Frank and Louie's radio ads.

In practical terms, this includes the physical production of film prints and their shipping around the world ( a process that is beginning to be replaced by digital distribution ) as well as the creation of posters, newspaper and magazine advertisements, television commercials, trailers, and other types of ads.

* Selection of Nestea ads from around the world

Keith recorded hundreds of musical compositions based around lyrics sent in to song-poem companies by amateur songwriters, based upon small ads in the backs of mass market magazines promising success in the profitable field of songwriting.

The song was later adapted ( around 1965 ) to advertise SpaghettiOs, and Rodgers sang the jingle in the original television ads.

The family appeared in TV cartoon ads for tea, one of which included Grandma racing around on her motorbike.