Your Belly is Full of Junk!

This gets my vote for the strangest ad on the web I've seen in a long time.

"Your Belly is Full of Junk! Learn the trick to removing the undigested food inside of you..." The picture shows what appears to be a Big Mac and fries sitting undisturbed in a cutaway view of a woman's torso.

Desperately Seeking Susan's Ad Revenue

Following the Susan Boyle thread, the New York Times ran an interesting article on the difficulty of monetizing internet fame.  Although hundreds of millions of people have watched Susan Boyle perform "I Dreamed A Dream" via the internet - mainly YouTube - this has not translated directly into money for the producers or distributors of "Britain's Got Talent".  And surprisingly, not even YouTube (a unit of Google) has profited from Susan Boyle's fame: commercials were not placed on the videos of her singing due to a failure of Fremantle Media and YouTube to see eye to eye on a way to split the potential ad revenue.

Incidentally, here is a link to Susan's second performance, in which she sings "Memories" from the musical "Cats."

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Truth in Advertisment

How much stock do you put in advertisement? For instance, 1 in 5 people prefer my travel site to yours. Or all the taste tests out there? The Wall Street Journal calls the stats 'bogus.'

As the economy weakens, the number of consumer dollars available to companies also diminishes... that means it's time to ramp up the claims.


Is there anyone regulating these claims. The government can step in, but the WSJ says it only does when the claims endanger the public. The broadcast networks ask for substantiating proof. And of course, companies can sue each other.