John called asking about the ads Verizon is poised to put ads on the internet services accessed by its cellphone users.
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Ad Supported 411 from AT&T
By 12.28.06
Maybe we’re just intolerant of ads, but when we heard about AT&T’s new ad supported 411 service, we just laughed. If you’re willing to listen to 40 seconds of advertising, you too can get directory assistance. The best part? There’s auto-connect, but it’s at the advertiser’s discretion. Yes, the media buyer at Pizza Hut’s ad agency decides if you get to auto-connect. Gee, how did we ever live without this.
We Reupload Heinous PSP Flog Videos Sony Removed
By 12.13.06
UPDATE: The 807 comments that were on the Dancing Petey video, after the jump.
Food Industry Funded Group Really Worried (For You) About Trans Fat Bans
By 12.7.06
The Center for Consumer Freedom posted a full page ad in today’s USATODAY.
David LaChapelle’s Boots Commercial
By 11.16.06
Yes, Virginia, there is a true meaning to Christma: looking ab-fab. — BEN POPKEN
CompUSA’s Shady PS3 Ad
By 11.13.06
CompUSA has a potentially misleading advertisement this week that reader Daniel has alerted us to.
Buttload Of New Black Friday Ads Up
By 11.10.06
The mob shopping savings just keep rolling in. Hooray. We may show up at one of these sales, just to document the depravity. — BEN POPKEN
Best Buy’s Black Friday Ad Up
By 11.8.06
With the image fidelity of a Sasquatch sighting, Best Buy’s Black Friday Ad has arrived.
Black Friday Ads: KB Toys, EB Games, Fred’s
By 11.6.06
A veritable turducken of new Black Friday ads:
OfficeMax Black Friday Ad
By 11.3.06
OfficeMax boasts the skimpiest lineup of Black Friday sale items we’ve seen to date.
Harbor Freight Black Friday Ad
By 11.1.06
We’ve never heard of Harbor Freight but they sell tools. Their Black Friday ad just went up. A six piece screwdriver set for only $1.49 sounds like a deal. As does a mover’s dolly for only $19.99.
Kmart Black Friday Ad Surfaces
By 10.20.06
There’s no sexy newspaper insert scanned yet, but the hard facts of K-marts Black Friday specials have leaked onto the internet.
Ace Hardware Black Friday Ad Surfaces
By 10.17.06
The orgy of bargains and crazed pre-Christmas shopping, Black Friday, is only 38 days away.
How Fake Models Are Really Made
By 10.16.06
It’s part of Dove’s “Campaign For Real Beauty” which aims to sell Dove skincare products to a niche audience that thinks it hates these fake models. The lotion is the same as what the “fake” model sells, it’s just in a more “conscious” package.
Help Us Not Be Poor
By 10.12.06
For secret reasons, we’re coming up with a list of Consumerist preferred service providers. These are companies that provide a better or cheaper or simply less lame alternative to the “name brands.”
Does Wal-Mart Secretly Hate The Gay?
By 10.10.06
A reader reports seeing a series of strange Wal-Mart ads that seem to exhibit a subversive, latent, homophobia on the part of the big box retailer.
