Pom, the maker of wildly expensive pomegranate juice products, is suing the Federal Trade Commission for infringing on Pom's First Amendment right to tell you, the consumer, any old thing about how great pomegranate juice is.

Microblogging service Twitter is redesigning its website! The new Twitter, promises the company, provides an "easier, faster and richer" experience. Well, that's all well and good, but any good narcissist/Twitter user would know to ask: What's in it for me?

One To Grow On were public service announcements that aired directly after cartoons during NBC's Saturday morning lineup. From 1983-87, many famous faces graced the airwaves with tales of morality. Here's Jason Bateman's plea to stop "blasting in public."

In an attempt to market baby carrots as a junk food, a campaign labeling them to be "extreme" has been launched. They also come in extreme junk food packaging!

The first TV ad for medical marijuana hit Sacramento stations last week. The original ad was uninspired and clinical to say the least—but check out Cenk Uygur in a pot ad spoof on MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan Show.

The magazine industry's self-advertising effort continues, cringe-inducingly. "You read magazines," the ad assures you. "Magazines are the ideal complement" to "instant media" like this here blog, it adds. Why not say you're better than us, magazines? Ambition is contagious! [Copyranter]

Guy Ritchie is okay when it comes to fast-paced gangster movies; but his new genre of "five-minute-long perfume commercials in which (SPOILER) Jude Law and the model lady just wanna stand almost-nekkid by the Eiffel Tower" leaves us strangely unaroused.

Today Old Spice released a commercial starring the Baltimore Ravens' Ray Lewis. Perhaps Isaiah Mustafa was busy plotting how to use his new-found fame to land women? Watch Lewis attempt to fill the shoes of the "Old Spice Guy" inside.

Do not make 9/11-themed ads. How many times must it be said? At least one more, apparently. (And this one's French! Bring back Freedom Fries, argh!) [Copyranter]

Hey, advertising jingles are back in fashion! That means fewer once-cool real songs corrupted!

Billboards that can see you are here. I guess that's about it, for humans.

A new Times Square TV ad depicts Google CEO Eric Schmidt as a creep in an ice cream truck. It's just the latest critical swipe at the company, Fast Company's Ariel Schwartz reports.

To tastefully honor the late Princess Diana on the anniversary of her death, a Chinese lingerie company made this ad urging you to "Feel the Romance of British Royalty." That's so thoughtful. [Daily Mail]

Advertising about enlisting in the military is tricky business; a balance between agitprop and national pride. America's approach is standard, but what about the rest of the world? The international community uses robots, explosions, crazy camera angles and battleships!

"We were shooting the ad and they kept shouting, 'Cut, Lionel, stop eating the product, you are eating the commercial' - I was so in the commercial, I was in the product; I ate the ad." Shut up, Lionel Richie.

Incredibly popular Internet linkdump Reddit was informed by its corporate parent, Conde Nast, that it could not sell ads supporting Proposition 19, California's marijuana legalization ballot initiative. So Reddit figured out how to preserve its soul and screw Conde, too.

Oh, ho: How much do you really like that attractive man in the Old Spice ads? Yes, Isaiah Mustafa's twelve billion-ad onslaught did boost sales. But further review shows you only loved him for his coupon!

Ladies: need to ask your boss for a raise, but unsure how? This Summer's Eve ad has a step-by-step plan for you. Step One: "showering with Summer's Eve feminine wash."

Online game titan Zynga just saw its advertising firm hit with cleaning bills and fines for gluing fake money to sidewalks in San Francisco to promote the Zynga game "Mafia Wars." Now, they're doing the same thing in NYC. Scofflaws!

Is that footlong cheeseburger not getting the job done for you? Try the Carl's Jr. Philly Cheesesteak Burger. A cheesesteak on a bun? No, a cheesesteak on top of a burger. Hey, it didn't make these Legos fat. [Adfreak]