Washington, Apr 2 (ANI): Nuance, a provider of speech recognition and language technology, has launched a new a new ad format that allows users to carry on spoken conversations with mobile advertisements.

London, Mar. 28 (ANI): JWT India has sacked its employees over a series of controversial advertisements, including one that features a cartoon of former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi with a group of bound women in a car trunk.

Edmonton, Mar. 22 (ANI): Researchers from the University of Alberta, along with Canadian obesity experts are calling on the federal government to ban food and beverage advertisements that target children.

London, Mar 8 (ANI): Football legend Gary Lineker has said he had never thought he would be still doing chips' advertisements twenty years after he did his first one.

Melbourne, Mar 5 (ANI): Experts have called for the ban on gambling advertisements during sports broadcasts in Australia and said that they should be put in the same category as alcohol and smoking, whose promotion are severely restricted during the broadcasts.

Washington, March 1 (ANI): The widespread depiction of hyper-masculinity in men's magazine advertising may be harmful to both men and society at large, researchers have warned,

Sydney, Feb 8(ANI): American daily newspaper The New York Times has claimed capital from readers and subscribers left behind advertising revenues for the first time ever in 2012, as the media group reported a boost in profits.

London, Feb 7 (ANI): China has announced a ban on radio and TV advertisements promoting excessive, luxurious gift-giving, saying that they encourage incorrect values, according to a state media report.

New York, Jan 9 (ANI): Hundreds of inflammatory advertisements linking Islam to terrorism have been posted in the New York subways, according to a report.

London, Jan 7 (ANI): A leading psychologist has warned against the increase in the numbers of girls suffering mental health problems after coming under "sustained assault" from diet advertisements, alcohol marketing, fashion pressures and access to pornography.

Islamabad, Jan 4 (ANI): Pakistan's National Assembly's Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting has asked the government to ban airing all foreign content in any language during prime time.

Sydney, Dec 17 (ANI): Political operative Mark Penn, who worked for both Bill and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns, has been hired by Microsoft for 'strategic and special projects', which means targeting arch rival Google, says a report.

Melbourne, December 17 (ANI): Commercial ads for a popular brand of women's underwear, which claim to melt fat or reshape the body using infra-red energy, are the subject of a complaint to the Therapeutic Products Advertising Complaints resolution panel.

New York, Nov. 28 (ANI): An entrepreneur from Texas has started a weird business by offering space on his or his co-workers bald heads for advertisements

London, Nov. 28 (ANI): A US federal judge has ordered tobacco companies to admit having deliberately deceived people about the danger and addictiveness of cigarettes in self-paid advertisements.

Washington, Nov 3 (ANI): Social networking giant Facebook has launched a tool that helps new users on the site to manage their privacy settings.

London, October 29 (ANI): From bottles of Heineken to speeding BMWs, thousand of people packing cinemas to watch the latest James Bond flick 'Skyfall' have to first sit through 30 minutes of adverts and previews before the film starts.

Washington, Oct. 18 (ANI): Voters in crucial swing states are persuaded by President Barack Obama's commercials, while his challenger Republican Mitt Romney's advertisements fail to move the needle, according to a new study.

Washington, October 14 (ANI): Graphic and/or emotional television anti-smoking advertisements get more smokers to try to quit than less intense ads, according to a new study.

London, Oct 11 (ANI): Advertisements for software giant Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system have reportedly been published online.

Washington, Oct. 3 (ANI): For every five commercials Republican candidate Mitt Romney and his allies ran in the vital swing state of Denver in the last two weeks of September, President Barack Obama and Democrats ran seven.

Sydney, Sept 24 (ANI): Marketing firms seeking to promote a product or a service do not consider smartphones as a great medium to reach consumers, says a report.

Washington, Sept. 24 (ANI): A leading House Republican has criticized the Obama administration for running advertisements in Pakistan denouncing the anti-Islamic film that allegedly sparked violent and deadly protests across Muslim world, calling the roughly approximately 70,000 dollar project a "horrible idea."

Washington, Sept. 21 (ANI): The Obama administration is airing advertisements on Pakistani television condemning the anti-Islamic film - The Innocence of Muslims - in a bid to pacify the enraged Muslims.

Washington, Sept 10 (ANI): Amazon has said that it would allow customers to pay to opt out of advertisements on its new Kindle Fire devices.