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This morning, the folks at Copyranter posted some ads for the Chicago Tribune created by Canadian-based ad agency Juniper Park. We clicked around and found a complete set over at Ads of the World. The ads are pretty eye-catching, even if the copy on a few of the ads is a bit clunky, and stress the Trib's investigative reporting. [While the Trib always does good investigative reporting work - being at the center of last winter's Blago affair helped - we can't help but think that the city's best investigative reporting this year has actually been done by Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky over at The Reader.] We spoke with a rep at Juniper Park who confirmed the ads had run (we're still awaiting PR info pertaining to the markets where the ads are running and we place an email to the Tribune).

The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) filed a lawsuit against the CTA yesterday alleging the transit agency was infringing upon their first amendment rights by refusing to display ads for "mature audience" video games. Michael D. Gallagher, CEO of the ESA, said in a statement:

Want 'em or hate 'em, the push for the Chicago 2016 Olympics is going to be a big story around here over the next eight months, and especially the next several days as the IOC tours the city. Now comes this three-minute spot promoting Chicago as the host city and the crew at Chicago 2016 finally pulled out the big gun: Michael Jordan. The video is, dare we say, pretty stellar and well put together and only makes us wonder how things would be different if Mayor Daley wasn't leading this charge. [via The Windy Citizen]

These days, the hype surround banned Super Bowl commercials is a big as the commercials that make it to air during the big games. This year is no different as PETA puts the "hump" in our Humpday Diversion courtesy of this racy ad that NBC has rejected because of, among other things, a woman "screwing herself with broccoli" and "asparagus on her lap appearing as if it is ready to be inserted into vagina." Read the NBC letter [PDF] and check out the video below.

These ads for Americans for the Arts were created by Chicago's own Leo Burnett agency. It's goooood!

Back in the VHS era we taped a fair amount of movies off TV. Most of the time we were sitting there and editing out the commercials, but now and then we'd use the timer to record something. Those captured commercials, once minor annoyances to fast-forward through, are now fascinating artifacts. Bit by bit we've been digitizing them and posting them on YouTube. A simple search proves that we're not alone: there are scads of vintage Madison Avenue spots for perusal. "Mikey likes it." "The best part of waking up..." Watching them now is hard proof that a silly bit of commercial propaganda, when seen repeatedly at a tender young age, can lodge itself in your brain forever.