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Houston to Lose 20% of All Billboards

The Houston market will lose 800 billboards - or 20 percent of all billboards in the city - between now and the end of the year. One hundred have already been taken down, reports KPRC Local 2.

The billboards will come down from neighborhoods and scenic districts, as part of a plan to improve the city’s scenery. The plan is possible because of an ordinance passed in April.

The large bulletins on highways and many major thoroughfares are safe from the initiative because of federal law.

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Q3 Radio Revenue Slides 9% Despite Off-Air Gains, Political Spend

Though off-air online and experiential advertising grew modestly as a part of the overall radio revenue pie, and election-related political ads increased in Q3, total radio ad revenues were down 9% to $4.97 billion for Q3 and down 10% for…

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News Media Less Effective at Conveying Ad Messages

Only 28% of the audience of an average news program, website or magazine gets valuable information about products and services advertised there, making news venues less effective at conveying ad messages than all forms of media combined (see chart), according…

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Target Builds Snow Globe Effect as iPhone App

Target is one of the first brands to create an iPhone application. The Target “gift globe” allows iPhone users to shake their phones to launch a snow-fall effect.

When the snow clears, a gift idea from Target is revealed. Users…

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Publicis Purchases Asia Shop, W&K Communications

Publicis has acquired full-service agency W&K Communications, continuing its Asia expansion that began several years ago.

W&K will be pulled under the umbrella of Publicis’s Burnett agency network, and will be renamed Leo Burnett Beijing Advertising, writes Adweek.

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Conde Nast Shuts down Teen Web Props

Conde Nast is removing Flip.com as an applicationon Facebook come Dec. 16. The website will also be shut down.

Flip launched in 2007 as an online scrapbooking site, reaching 300,000 users. But it failed to sustain the growth Conde Nast…

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FTC Approves New Telemarketing Rule

Effective immediately, any telemarketing call that delivers a prerecorded message must include a quick and easy way to opt-out of receiving future calls. The opt-out must work both for consumers who answer these calls in person and for those whose…

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