MOSCOW (Reuters) – An enormous television screen showing a pornographic film caused a midnight traffic jam in central Moscow Thursday as stunned motorists slammed on the brakes to gawk at the writhing naked bodies.
The owner of the advertising screen, which sits atop a main road about two km (1.2 miles) south of the Kremlin, told the state-run RIA news agency that hackers had broken into the screen’s computer system and turned on the porn.
“They were either acting out of hooliganism or were from a rival company,” Viktor Laptev, commercial director of advertising firm Panno.ru, told RIA.
We’re shown a couple getting hot and heavy in bed, the lights dim — and the woman suddenly screams in a delightful Aussie accent: “Oh no, not before me!” There are sirens and the “bedroom police” arrive to cite the man for speeding, “Excuse me sir, do you realize how fast you were going in this bed?” One minute 30 seconds? Oh no! The speeder gets off with a warning, provided he see the doctors at the Advanced Medical Institute about his premature ejaculation problem.
After sparking dozens of complaints, the country’s Advertising Standards Bureau determined that “the advertisement clearly had the potential to impact on men’s self-esteem and cause shame, embarrassment and undue distress.” The board also decided that the spot “suggested a serious men’s health issue was akin to a criminal offense, while the apparent frustration shown by the woman was suggestive of intolerance towards men suffering from premature ejaculation,” according to the Sydney Morning Herald. So, the ad has been forced off the air.
CHICAGO — Illinois Attorney GeneralLisa Madigan says that Craigslist is getting rid of its “erotic services” ads and will create a new adult category that Web site employees will review.
Madigan’s office said Wednesday that such existing ads on Craigslist will expire in seven days.
Playboy Enterprises Inc. said Monday it is considering reducing the circulation of its namesake magazine, cutting its frequency and raising prices as it copes with the erosion of its print audience and advertising dragging down the adult-entertainment company.
The possible moves come as Playboy posted a net loss of $13.7 million, or 41 cents per share, for the first quarter, compared to a net loss of $4.2 million, or 13 cents per share, a year earlier. The latest results included $8.7 million in impairment and restructuring charges.Jerome Kern, Playboy’s interim chairman and chief executive officer since Christie Hefner stepped down at the end of last year, said in a conference call with analysts that while the magazine is important to the company’s image and brand, “it is clear that this company cannot continue to sustain significant losses in a business that now comprises less than one quarter of the company’s revenue base.”
Playboy is exploring what Mr. Kern described as “radical” changes to the magazine, including its 2.6 million guaranteed circulation. In addition, Playboy this summer will combine its July and August issues to save money on printing and distribution, a move it says could be a precursor to a permanent curtailing of frequency.
A church may face being kicked out of the school auditorium it uses for holding sermons, after it advertised a series of services entitled ‘Great Sex for You.’
The New Hope Church, of Melbourne, Florida (it’s always Florida) sent out 25,000 fliers to local households advertising the services in the school, promising that attendees could ‘learn how to have the Great Sex that God created you to enjoy!’
The fliers, which were emblazoned with the question ‘Is Your Sex Life A Bore?’, prompted complaints from parents, and attracted the ire of the school district.
Back in 2005 I wrote about “Bumvertising,” the unfortunate name given by Ben Rogovy to his company’s practice of hiring homeless people to hold placards with ads on them. The practice was roundly criticized — people thought it tasteless at best, and perhaps seriously exploitative. (I offered a limited defence: the name “Bumvertising is demeaning, but Rogovy was actually providing employment to people who desperately need it — which is more than most of us do for them.)
Now a Toronto radio station is playing on the same turf: an ad campaign for talk-radioCFRB has panhandlers holding signs that say “Should panhandling be illegal?” and prostitutes holding signs that ask “Should prostitution be legal?”
I used to be in advertising. I spent about ten years on Madison Avenue, tending to big, fancy clients and climbing the corporate ladder. The money wasn’t great, but I could manage – barely.
New York City is expensive, and like a lot of young women I was only one bad circumstance away from “barely managing” to “broke.” That bad circumstance for me was a very messy breakup with an abusive boyfriend. I swept him out of my life for good, which was a great thing of course, except that I was stuck with a pricey apartment and NO extra money to cover everything.
So I got a part time job in retail. Fine, except for the fact that working in advertising in New York means that you can never count on getting out of the office at, say, 5 o’clock. In order to succeed, you need to devote 100 percent of your life and time which often means working late nights and weekends. And my boss at the part time job wasn’t too happy about me not being reliable when I would have to call in to say that I was stuck at the office working on a big new business pitch or something. Not that I blame her. So I thought, what kind of part time job can I get where I can make my own hours and make some decent money?
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