The airline, which last ran TV ads in August 2007, will launch the first in a series of nine commercials on Monday on ITV1.

The first new BA ad for two years gives us an excuse to dig out the old ones.
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Online sales are becoming a critical source of company growth. Yet the online customer experience – helping customers find the best product – is often given secondary attention. What can you do to help guide customers to the best product?

How can you make the online channel a more effective selling vehicle? And do you have your product data and marketing practices aligned to make your website effective?

Come to Internet Retailing’s 2009 conference and hear Omar Haque, Managing Director, AxciomCSG speaking about 'How you can make the online channel a more effective selling vehicle'.
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The broker said that while big grocers’ share prices reflected concerns over falling food inflation, “the need for the industry to wean itself off promotions means we would stick to the proven volume drivers such as Morrisons”.
 

Many senior sales executives are still looking for a predictable flow of leads at the end of a lead acquisition and nurturing “funnel.”

And while many marketers have been struggling with expectation settings around predictable lead delivery for more than a decade, their sense of panic and angst around this issue has risen to alarming levels.
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Bonds underwear for women is given a 1970s treatment in “Racey Shapes”, a television commercial featuring women on roller skates, wearing Bonds Keenie g-strings and Super Scoop bras and tank tops.

The roller skater team, four of whom are pro skaters, roll in and out of an outdoor arena, circling a fountain before disappearing again. Music is 15 to 20 by New York band The Phenomenal Hand Clap.
 

Marketing spend is being wasted through poorly targeted distribution activities according to new research by brand engagement specialists Kyp.

A survey of 3,000 people around the UK, found that more than five times as many people read promotional information and offers at home in the evenings and weekends (61 per cent), rather than when they are commuting to or from work (12 per cent).
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"I'd rather go naked
than wear fur."

Supermodel Naomi Campbell has started a campaign to be the face of the luxury furrier Dennis Basso.
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10 More Tech Company Photoshop Disasters.
 

Traffic congestion relieved by man blowing car horn.
 

A family is at the dinner table. The son asks his father, "Dad, how many kinds of .....
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Adolf Hitler wasn’t known for his cool head and even temper but his reaction to Noel Gallagher’s decision to leave Oasis was unexpected.