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![Judgment Day? Yeah, right](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Judgment Day? Yeah, right
That was Skeptics Society chair Vicki Hyde's response to billboards claiming the world will end on May 21.
![Air NZ's Rico teams up with Snoop Dogg](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Air NZ's Rico teams up with Snoop Dogg
Air New Zealand has teamed up controversial puppet Rico with superstar rapper Snoop Dogg in its latest video.
![Music labels making millions from YouTube, says Google](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Music labels making millions from YouTube, says Google
YouTube is no longer just about building a buzz on emerging artists and new albums. The largest labels are making "millions of dollars a month" from the advertising alongside their videos.
![APN posts 9.6pc profit growth in NZ media business](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
APN posts 9.6pc profit growth in NZ media business
APN News & Media said its New Zealand media business had a solid year in 2010 with revenue growth of 1.7pc and earnings growth of 9.6pc.
![Media: Broadcasters strive to avoid ad clashes](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Media: Broadcasters strive to avoid ad clashes
Television bosses were in complex talks with advertisers yesterday to bring commercials back into their news schedules.
![Win a wife contest stays, with a name change](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Win a wife contest stays, with a name change
A radio station's controversial 'win a wife' competition is going ahead - with a tongue-in-cheek name change - despite allegations it devalues marriage and violates human dignity.
![Online voucher scheme Groupon hits UK with a bang](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Online voucher scheme Groupon hits UK with a bang
It was the kind of flash mob that only the internet can generate.
![Agents face probe after 'misleading' house ads](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Agents face probe after 'misleading' house ads
Some real estate agents face investigation for allegedly falsely claiming that houses were designed by architects.
![DB ordered to pull 'Black Budget' beer ads](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
DB ordered to pull 'Black Budget' beer ads
DB Breweries has been ordered to withdraw TV and online ads from its current campaign featuring Arnold Nordmeyer's infamous late-1950s "Black Budget" and the company's DB Export Beer.
![Ukrainians offended by 'win a wife' competition](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Ukrainians offended by 'win a wife' competition
A radio promotion offering the chance to win a 'hot' wife from Ukraine has offended New Zealand immigrants from the eastern European country.
![Companies asked to pull ads over 'Win a wife' competition](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Companies asked to pull ads over 'Win a wife' competition
A Facebook group aiming stop a controversial "win a wife" radio competition is asking companies to pull advertising from the station.
![Tip Top gifts trumpet birthday](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Tip Top gifts trumpet birthday
Rachel Hunter's modelling career kicked off in one of Tip Top's ads when she was just 15. It was the mid-1980s and a Trumpet cost 95c.
![Sites battle to be China's Facebook](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Sites battle to be China's Facebook
The top social-networking service in the world's biggest internet market was created by graduates of a prestigious university to help students communicate with one another. And it's not Facebook.
!['Win a wife' competition sparks outrage](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
'Win a wife' competition sparks outrage
A radio competition offering listeners the chance to "win a wife" has appalled a former MP who is calling for it to be pulled.
![Chef billboard cooks up a storm](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Chef billboard cooks up a storm
MediaWorks is under fire for a series of "sexualised" adverts - one of which features the words "backstabbing sl**".