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	<title>Crikey &#187; The Ad Business</title>
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		<title>Coke brands buskers</title>
		<link>http://adage.com/globalnews/article?article_id=140501</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[buskers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coca-Cola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate sponsorship]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This Christmas in London, out-of-tune hippies torturing Leonard Cohen's <em>Hallelujah</em> and little girls squealing <em>Jingle Bells</em> on their recorders will be brought to you by icy cold can of Coke.]]></description>
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		<title>Is colour a limited resource?</title>
		<link>http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/color-the-next-limited-resource/</link>
		<comments>http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/color-the-next-limited-resource/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[colour palette]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pantone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The colour palette is shrinking as brands stake their claim, bit-by-bit, on the exclusive rights to individual tones. You already can't use Jay-Z blue, or T-Mobile's magenta. Are we literally selling off the rainbow?]]></description>
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		<title>When one man&#8217;s disaster is another&#8217;s PR coup</title>
		<link>http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/port-wentworth-tragedy-profitable-for-pr-firm/</link>
		<comments>http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/port-wentworth-tragedy-profitable-for-pr-firm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Ad Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imperial PR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imperial Sugar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PR awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Relations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=98919</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[American PR firm Imperial PR has been honoured with an industry award for its "achievement" in protecting the image of a major US sugar producer after one of its refineries exploded, killing 14 people and injuring over 40. ]]></description>
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		<title>Glyn Davis&#8217;s modelling debut</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/glyn-daviss-modelling-debut/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/glyn-daviss-modelling-debut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Crook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Ad Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glyn Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of Melbourne]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Melbourne University Vice Chancellor Glyn Davis appears to have launched a modelling career spruiking the buttoned-up business section of <em>The Age</em>. ]]></description>
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		<title>MasterChef: has the cash-cow been milked dry?</title>
		<link>http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/blogs/the-vulture/how-to-cook-a-golden-goose/20091110-i7cs.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/blogs/the-vulture/how-to-cook-a-golden-goose/20091110-i7cs.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV & Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Ad Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jumping the shark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MasterChef Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Preston]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=98332</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<em>MasterChef</em>'s celebrity food critic Matt Preston has just released an album. No, really. Throw it in the pile with George Calombaris' cookbook, Poh Ling Yeow's TV show, Julie Goodwin's <em>Women's Weekly</em> column and tell Fonzie to get the water-skiis out...]]></description>
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		<title>Great moments in advertising: Viagra&#8217;s 10th birthday</title>
		<link>http://www.adgabber.com/video/candle-gets-a-stiffy-in</link>
		<comments>http://www.adgabber.com/video/candle-gets-a-stiffy-in#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Ad Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ad campaigns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[viagra]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=97423</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Viagra celebrates 10 years of hard work (boom tish!) with a predictably innuendo-laden ad. It left us a little flaccid at first, but now it's growing on us...]]></description>
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		<title>Web ads: a watcher&#8217;s guide</title>
		<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2009/10/can-newfangled-web-ads-save-journalism.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2009/10/can-newfangled-web-ads-save-journalism.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Ad Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online ads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[websites]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=96775</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Push-downs, troll ads, blogger endorsements and the Hulk -- they're all new and different ways advertisers and webmasters are trying to catch your eye (and clicks) online, to generate more (or <em>any</em>) money from the web.]]></description>
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		<title>Can Coco Pops protect you from swine flu?</title>
		<link>http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2009-11-02-cereal-immunity-claim_N.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2009-11-02-cereal-immunity-claim_N.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food & Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Ad Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[junk food advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kellogg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kellogg's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[misleading advertising]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=96753</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cereal giant Kellogg is in trouble in the US for emblazoning "Now helps support your child's IMMUNITY" across the front of its Cocoa Krispies (that's Coco Pops to you, skip) packets, amid the country's swine flu hysteria. Can the company convince the courts the claims are medically sound? ]]></description>
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		<title>How a logo is created: from go to &#8216;woah!&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.layersmagazine.com/artistic-expression-logo-design-from-start-to-finish.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.layersmagazine.com/artistic-expression-logo-design-from-start-to-finish.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Ad Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graphic design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[logos]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=96486</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A graphic designer offers a behind-the-scenes look at how a professionally designed logo is created, from the client's brief to the unveiling ]]></description>
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		<title>Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it&#8217;s &#8230; Unit Man!</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/is-it-a-bird-is-it-a-plane-no-its-unit-man/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/is-it-a-bird-is-it-a-plane-no-its-unit-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Ad Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACCC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumer prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unit Man]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=96255</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The ACCC has sent out a press release this morning to introduce "a caped calculator character called Unit Man." He can't fly or see through walls, but may save you cents -- <em>cents!</em> -- off laundry detergent.  ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Australia&#8217;s most hated brands</title>
		<link>http://adage.com/globalnews/article?article_id=140003</link>
		<comments>http://adage.com/globalnews/article?article_id=140003#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Ad Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aurora coffee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grazia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nokia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vegemite]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=96251</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2009 Brand Asset Valuator study reveals Australia's most popular brand names -- which this year include Google, Nokia and Vegemite -- but far <em>more</em> interesting are the brands we like the least, which include <em>Grazia</em> magazine and Aurora Coffee.]]></description>
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		<title>The Age in CBD graffiti tag shame</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/the-age-in-cbd-graffiti-tag-shame/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/the-age-in-cbd-graffiti-tag-shame/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Crook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Ad Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ad campaigns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graffiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[melbourne city council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newspapers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[street art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[street chalking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Age]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/the-age-in-cbd-graffiti-tag-shame/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Melbourne broadsheet <em>The Age</em> is facing prosecution after it illegally sprayed promotional stencils onto Melbourne's streets, in defiance of Melbourne City Council guidelines.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Deceptive pink bits</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/and-the-wankley-goes-to-deceptive-pink-bits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/and-the-wankley-goes-to-deceptive-pink-bits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophie Black</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Ad Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wankley Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breast cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breast cancer awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breast cancer awareness month]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dunlop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mount Franklin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Breast Cancer Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visa]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/and-the-wankley-goes-to-deceptive-pink-bits/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week we're giving the Wankley to products that pinkefy themselves with all sorts of glowing promises about their commitment to breast cancer research. Too bad the donations cost less than the feel good advertising it brings them.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>CHOICE names and shames the shonkiest brands of the year</title>
		<link>http://www.choice.com.au/Reviews-and-Tests/Money/Shopping-and-Legal/Shopping/The-2009-Shonky-Awards/page/Introduction.aspx</link>
		<comments>http://www.choice.com.au/Reviews-and-Tests/Money/Shopping-and-Legal/Shopping/The-2009-Shonky-Awards/page/Introduction.aspx#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Ad Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aldi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CHOICE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumer advocacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L'Oreal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tiffany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tiger Airways]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=95849</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Consumer advocate <em>CHOICE</em> has named its picks for the shonkiest Australian products and services for 2009. Brands coming under fire this year include Aldi, L'Oreal, Tiffany, Qantas and Tiger Airways.]]></description>
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		<title>When online journalists moonlight as copy-writers</title>
		<link>http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/digital/e3i18f9fdff77fbe360de9a9e415aa29039</link>
		<comments>http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/digital/e3i18f9fdff77fbe360de9a9e415aa29039#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Ad Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ad campaigns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advertising copy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bloggers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalistic ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online journalists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=95540</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sites like <a href="http://www.gawker.com">Gawker</a> and <a href="http://www.thrillist.com">Thrillist</a> are now penning their advertisers' copy for them in "sponsored posts", to help the brands fit in with the "vibe" of their sites. Are they crossing the fine line between advertising and editorial?]]></description>
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		<title>Only in Japan: the Windows 7 Whopper</title>
		<link>http://laughingsquid.com/burger-king-1-34-lb-windows-7-whopper/</link>
		<comments>http://laughingsquid.com/burger-king-1-34-lb-windows-7-whopper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food & Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Ad Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burger King]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=95146</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an bizarre cross-marketing campaign, Burger King in Japan has created a special Whopper to celebrate the release of Microsoft's new Windows 7 operating system, featuring <em>seven</em> quarter-pound beef patties. ]]></description>
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		<title>Crikey Competition: Pink ribbon pink-washing</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/26/crikey-competition-pink-ribbon-pink-washing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/26/crikey-competition-pink-ribbon-pink-washing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Ad Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breast cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breast cancer awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breast cancer awareness month]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pink Ribbon Day]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=95093</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is Pink Ribbon Day, and <em>Crikey</em> is on the look-out for the most egregious and shamless examples brands engaging in a spot of "pink washing". Join us!]]></description>
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		<title>The best viral ad videos of 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.businesspundit.com/the-8-best-viral-advertising-videos-of-2009-so-far/</link>
		<comments>http://www.businesspundit.com/the-8-best-viral-advertising-videos-of-2009-so-far/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<em>Business Pundit</em> wraps up the ads that took the internet by storm in 2009, including LED sheep, Bruce Lee playing table tennis, Vanilla Ice says sorry. Ah, so many memories, so many wasted working hours...]]></description>
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		<title>Smiths&#8217; &#8220;Do Us A Flavour&#8221;: When snack foods get crowdsourcing right</title>
		<link>http://mumbrella.com.au/snack-creation-campaign-enters-final-phase-10653</link>
		<comments>http://mumbrella.com.au/snack-creation-campaign-enters-final-phase-10653#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smiths chips latest marketing campaign could teach Vegemite a thing or two about letting readers in on the snack creation process, with the creation "late night kebab" and "butter popcorn" flavoured chips. <a href="http://foodiewanderings.blogspot.com/2009/10/roadtesting-smiths-do-us-flavour.html".Do they taste as good as they sound?</a></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A history of weird and wonderful Windows ads</title>
		<link>http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/the-good-the-bad-and-the-awful-a-history-of-windows-ads-642996</link>
		<comments>http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/the-good-the-bad-and-the-awful-a-history-of-windows-ads-642996#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=94527</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Celebrate the <a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26243498-26103,00.html">release</a> of the latest Windows operating system (and hopefully the death of Vista) with a look back through some of the weirdest ads for each Windows release.]]></description>
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		<title>Pink bits: the absurd world of gendered consumer products</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/20/pink-bits-the-absurd-world-of-gendered-consumer-products/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/20/pink-bits-the-absurd-world-of-gendered-consumer-products/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel Campbell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alcatel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marketers have never abandoned the idea that men and women require their own ‘special’ products. Women’s products are often tinted pink and advertised with cuddly names and breathy female voiceovers. Insulting much?]]></description>
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		<title>A dispiriting attempt to flog beer to women</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2009/10/16/this-ones-for-da-ladies/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2009/10/16/this-ones-for-da-ladies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=93473</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Following from the '80s flop that was <a href="http://www.australianbeers.com/beers/swan_gold/swan_gold.htm">Swan Gold</a>, National Distilleries is gifting the ladies with another 'special' beer: Hummingbird Blonde Lager. Do women really need our own patronising, bastardised version of beer, asks <b>Mel Cambell</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing red over pink-ribbon products</title>
		<link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thehumancondition/archive/2009/10/13/seeing-red-in-pink-products-one-woman-s-fight-against-breast-cancer-consumerism.aspx</link>
		<comments>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thehumancondition/archive/2009/10/13/seeing-red-in-pink-products-one-woman-s-fight-against-breast-cancer-consumerism.aspx#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_Cancer_Awareness_Month">that time of year again</a>, when advertisers paint their products pink in order to cash in on breast cancer awareness. But as one activist argues: "If shopping could cure breast cancer it would be cured by now".]]></description>
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		<title>Kellogg fights fake corn flakes &#8212; with lasers!</title>
		<link>http://adage.com/globalnews/article?article_id=139657</link>
		<comments>http://adage.com/globalnews/article?article_id=139657#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cereal king Kellogg has decided to tackle the pressing issue of imitation corn flakes by using lasers to brand its authentic flakes with the company's signature logo. Take <em>that</em>, black market breakfast cereals!]]></description>
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		<title>Advertising authority tells Rupert lay off illegal brothel ads</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/14/advertising-authority-tells-rupert-lay-off-illegal-brothel-ads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/14/advertising-authority-tells-rupert-lay-off-illegal-brothel-ads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A big revenue stream for Rupert Murdoch is about to dry up, with the Australian Publishing Bureau directing News Ltd and other media outlets not to accept advertising from illegal brothels writes <b>Chris Seage</b>. ]]></description>
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