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• a 1989 Samsung commercial began the late South Korean actress Choi Jin-sil's path to stardom?
• Mountain, a 2003 advertisement for the PlayStation 2 video game console, was nominated for more than 40 awards?
• Moorhuhn, a series of German computer games that has spawned much merchandise, a comic book series, and a TV series, began in 1999 as a whisky advertisement?
• a radio ad in Argentina for 'Los Andes Restaurant', which first aired in 1922, is the oldest known radio commercial in history?
• the 2006 Honda ad Cog won more awards than any other advertisement in history?
• the Swedish Bikini Team, an advertising and marketing campaign for Old Milwaukee beer was shut down in the U.S. following protests by the National Organization for Women?
• the Hovis advertisement Go On Lad compresses 122 years of British history into 122 seconds?
• Robert Spear Hudson used paintings by professional artists for advertising before Pear's Soap and Lever Brothers?
• Prasoon Joshi, an award-winning advertising executive is also a lyricist for Bollywood movies?
• Chindonya are elaborately-costumed Japanese street musicians who advertise for shops and other establishments?
• advertising executive Lois Wyse came up with the slogan "With a name like Smucker's, it has to be good!"?
• Clarence Hailey Long, a ranch foreman in the Texas Panhandle, was the inspiration for the original Marlboro Man advertising campaign by Philip Morris?
• Edward F. Boyd pioneered the concept of niche marketing in the United States by avoiding ethnic stereotypes in advertising for Pepsi?
• Frank Ford, an organic food farmer in Deaf Smith County, Texas, was the chief advertising spokesman for the health foods industry during its founding decades of the 1960s and the 1970s?
• Ernst Litfaß was the inventor of the free-standing advertising column which bears his name?
• advertisements featuring the character Michael Power doubled Guinness sales in Africa between 1999 and 2003?