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1 in 5 Teens Sends Sexually Explicit Pics Over 'Net

One in five teen girls (22%), nearly as many teen boys (18%) and one-third (33%) of young adults say they have electronically sent, or posted online, nude or semi-nude photographic or video images of themselves, according to (pdf) a survey by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy and CosmoGir  [...]

Depressed Dow Drives Americans into Arms of Online Dating

A handful of online dating sites are reporting activity spikes following September's global financial crisis. "On days when the US Dow Jones industrial went down [...] by more than 100 points, more people were likely to log in and spend more time on the site," stated Senior Research Scientist Gian Gonzaga in an interview with Reuters. "People seek out companionship in times of stress. Studies repeatedly show   [...]

Viewers Love Fey as Palin, Mostly on the Web

Tina Fey's portrayals of Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live have been seen more on the web than on TV, according to a survey by Solutions Research Group. The survey shows 51 percent of viewers that saw at least one of the skits watched it on the internet. About 23 percent watched on YouTube; 17 percent watched on NBC.com, and 4 percent saw the skit on Hulu.com. Following the   [...]

Mobile Broadcast TV to Hit 120MM Users by 2012

Nearly 120 million mobile users in over 40 countries are may have broadcast TV services by 2012, compared with less than 12 million in 2007. And DVB-H will serve as the dominant transmission standard, according to a new report from Juniper Research, writes   [...]

Dating in Digital Era Gets AJAX Treatment

With the proliferation of free "friendship" sites like MySpace and Facebook, paid dating sites are dipping into the social networking playbook to freshen up the look of dating 2.0, according to The Guardian. British dating site Dating Direct, whose tagline reads, "Same game, new rules," offers the serial daters of the online world a suite of staples: instant messaging, compati  [...]

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New Dating Site Starts in Real World, Moves Online

A new online dating startup will reverse the process of first chatting online before an actual meet-up, reports Springwise. Admit an Attraction allows people to meet online after first meeting in the physical world. The site sells Attraction Tickets that members can hand out to someone they meet in public,  [...]

Second Life Virtual Sex Biz Sold for $50K on eBay

One of the landmark businesses on Second Life, Amsterdam, sold on eBay Monday for $50,000 to a buyer located, appropriately enough, in the Netherlands, said the developer of the popular adult-oriented business, according to Information Week. Alderman's company, Eros LLC, specializes in adult business on the internet, with 90 percent of its business in Second Life. He said Eros s  [...]

MSN Search Launches Sexy Viral to Combat Google

The strikingly beautiful mascot behind MSN Search's viral Ms. Dewey sure beats a guy in a chicken suit - at least that's what MSN is hoping. The wisecracking Ms. Dewey is set in front of a futuristic cityscape and responds to users' search queries with a wide arrray of prop comedy and theatrics. Created by web shop Evolution Bureau, Ms. Dewey is played by actress Javina Gavankar. Mirroring Burger Kin  [...]

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Warner Bros. to Sever Zango Adware Link

Warner Bros. Studios is planning to end its relationship with adware firm Zango because of fears that kids could be exposed to adult content (aka pornography). Via a partnership with Zango (the former 180solutions) the Warner Bros. website, an online destination for kids, has been offering free game  [...]

Shai Uses Pornographic Online Video to Sell Clothes

Paris-based clothing catalog Shai is using online video catalogs at SexPacking.com that are pornographic in nature, or, as a company press release phrases it, that "highlight the seductive dimension of the line," writes Media Life (via MediaBuyerPlanner). The three   [...]

Maxim to 'Mobile-ize' Mag Content, Ads

The May issue of Maxim men's magazine will be mobile-friendly, featuring links to microsites and advertisements that can be accessed via readers' mobile phones, reports MediaPost. Readers will be able to see more photos of the Maximmodels and will have the opportunity to enter contests. Maxim's audience is partic  [...]

Oft-Raunchy Dawn and Drew Join Podshow Network

The stars of the often-raunchy Dawn and Drew Show podcast are in final negotiations to become paid podcasting employees of The Podshow Network, according to AdAge (  [...]

Paris Hilton to Pitch Movie with Podcasts

2003 TV promoPodcasting is getting its first big sponsorship break and making it on the big screen the same time. Adrants reports that Warner Brothers is launching a   [...]

Correction: BK Chicken Was Porn Spoof

MarketingVOX: Wired: BK's Chicken Effort a Porn Takeoff A story MarketingVOX ran on Wednesday called into question the idea quickly spreading through various opinion columns that the recent Burger King viral c  [...]

BK Spreads Viral Chicken

Site: Subservient Chicken Burger King launched an artificial intelligence viral campaign, publishing the Subservient Chicken site, where visitors can command the guy-in-chicken-costume to do pretty much anything. After three minutes of experimentation, the chicken was able to obey all commands, incl  [...]

Gee, It's Just Like a Commercial, But 'Real Life'

NY Observer: Bottoms Up Gawker: Model/Actress/Pusher Aren't men smart enough to spot a guerrilla marketing huckster shilling booze in the form of a gorgeous woman when they see one? Apparently not:It's not as h  [...]

Ford Uses Movie Spoof to Promote SportKa

The Evil Twin: Ford Sportka Ford's Evil TwinIn a viral spoof modeled after the movie, The Mothman Prophecies, Ford U.K. has launched a campaign called 'Evil Twin' to promote its new SportKa. In the spoof, the car, apparently tinged with evil, has been sighted playing evil tricks on innocent  [...]

Senator and Porn Star-cum-Politician Both Sell Access Online

Reuters: Porn Candidate Offers Date to Big Donors Mary Carey  [...]

Absolut Success for Product Placement

Ad Age: Make-believe Ad on 'Sex and the City' Creates Real-Life Sensation It was enough to make elegant ladies across the country spit out their martinis in shock when HBO's "Sex in the City" featured this parody ad for Absolut Hunk  [...]

Sex Sells

Media Life: Long, glorious history of S*E*X* in advertising This is great interview with Tom Reichert, author of The Erotic History of Advertising, and professor of advertising at the University of Alabama. I think that it is absolutely criminal how little "erotic" advertising there currently is on the internet. At last a medium arrives that allows you to freely speak to red blooded girls and boys i  [...]