We all know rednecks love two things; hanging out in Wal-Mart on a weekend and NASCAR. Therefore, the Bank of America decided it would be a good idea by sponsoring NASCAR as the offical bank for the next five years. The deal will cost the bank an estimated $15 to $20 million over the course of the next 5 years. The deal will add numerous spots throughout broadcasting, on the track, in the stands, and in media coverage. Bank of America is also the offical bank of Major League Baseball. It’s a good idea considering most rednecks would think that it’s “the offical bank of america and nascar. That must mean da goberment runs it.”

Ashlee Simpson’s latest brand endorsement comes to us from PopBytes. In the ads for Sketchers, Ashlee looks nothing like herself. Could it be the nose job or extreme photoshop editing? I have nothing against the brand but the shoes themselves are even lower quality (in my experience working at a shoe store… but I’m NOT gay) than something you could buy from Wal-Mart.

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A new report from ContactMusic shows that many industry analysts and speculators might not have all their marbles when criticizing online ad spending on YouTube. The recent study reveals that YouTube attracts 54.5% of its’ traffic from the 35 to 64 year old crowd while only 12.7% comes from the 12 to 17 year old crowd. Another research firm, Comscore, noted that 61.6 percent of visitors to YouTube earn more than $60,000 per year.

ArsTechnica called the statistics “scary news for TV execs” and noted they “go a long way towards explaining why Google paid a staggering $1.64 billion to buy out YouTube last month. The fact that older, richer eyeballs are peering at YouTube videos makes that space especially attractive for advertisers.”

NBC is headquartered outside Rockefeller Center and is the offical network for the event. During tonight’s one hour Christmas in Rockefeller Center spot you can enter to win the Zales “Win The Perfect Gift Sweepstakes” which includes a $5000 shopping spree.

In this Microsoft Office corporate video we are introduced to the staff of Microsoft partying and milking cows in Space suits. It’s a pretty funny viral video from Microsoft if you manage to spend 3:26 watching everything from a Sweidish girl punching out holes in cheese to an old naked man sleeping in a children’s pool.

The male ball bra has arrived. The really bizarre product was developed by Goto Int. and has been around since 2005. The company offers 3 colors of their ball bras for men including white, red, and crusty black (not kidding). They come in three sizes including original, bare, and g-string which looks a lot like saggy old man ball support.

Anshe Chung has become the first online virtual millionaire by selling real estate. Her precious islands and private communities have created so much wealth that she has convered it into over $1 million US dollars.

Anshe Chung began by making large amounts of purely virtual money on MMORPGs such as Asheron’s Call, Star Wars Galaxies and Shadowbane that she didn’t convert into real money. However, this changed when she entered Second Life, a virtual world MMORPG in which the in-game currency, “Linden Dollars”, can be ‘officially’ exchanged for real money. Players of Second Life can also buy areas of game land, for either in-game or real money. Anshe Chung earned an initial stake by selling custom avatar animations when these were a new feature of Second Life, and using this money she successfully became involved in the emerging market for land. Anshe Chung now owns several full servers worth of land, most of which are sold to other users.

If only Bill Clinton was still our president would this day be registered a national holiday. Durex Hump Day is something the company is pitching following the recent The Pants Whisperer (Horse Whisperer) campaign. The day has been honored to celebrate and use of condoms and safe sex.

From the Durex website on Hump Day “Canadians are horny. And the weekend’s too long to wait. We’ve got needs! So together we’ll take a boring day in the middle of the week and make it sing with the sounds of beds creaking and moans of delight.”

AdRants points out that in the “so horrifically bad it just might actually be good but not really” category that the recent Rolling Rock ad campaign for the beer ape was never aired on tv but has grown a huge following online with YouTube. Over 1,024,509 have viewed the video so far with nearly 1,000 comments. Why aren’t we seeing this ad on television anymore or a string of new ads? And when will we as consumers get over using mainly monkeys in commercials.|

St Louis based Rogers Townsend developed this overly long video for the Outreach International in Kansas City, MO. The project was designed to draw attention to the growing work the group has done in the area. They placed nearly a thousand shovels throughout the city park and the stunt has garnered a great deal of attention.

Developed by Mother NY and The Perlorian Brothers, this new ad spot for the Virgin Mobile Cell Slice demonstrates how advertisers truely behave with ham. Very interesting how cool hipsters love coffee beans and crave The Price is Right.

A team from the University of Buffalo has developed the world’s first “GM Logo” butterfly to discover how genes work in the development of wings, stripes, colors and eye spots. The researchers used a stencil to draw on a microscopic logo on the butterfly’s wings. The project was great for science but how will the company benefit from such microscopic exposure? Perhaps they were hoping for the big PR stunt this thing is generating.

The Government of Ontario pointed out that boys and girls just don’t mix. So be it that Ontario has developed this commercial which directs viewers to a website called ‘Equality Rules’. In the commercial, a young woman goes into a ‘McDonalds’ store and it heckled by her boyfriend. The website that the ad points to is filled with completely lame intimidation that you would receive from your elders. Hopefully this campaign will work but people change over time and never from just one commercial.

AdRants points out an effort to reduce binge drinking amongst teens and college aged students from the Youth Leadership Institute called UnHappy Hour. The institute points out the subject of binge drinking with alcohol content information facts and their effects on the body. There is information for parents, teachers, researchers, and students on how to handle conversations with their peers concerning alchol and abuse.

Hout Loust points out that for World AIDS day, Friday December 1st, 2006 a few Dutch church towers will be symbolically dressed in light orange condoms. The campaign was organized by Orange Babies, a charity organization from the fashion world to provide support for HIV and AIDS research.

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