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Where are the ads that cut through Olympic overload?

Where are the ads that cut through Olympic overload?

By Paul Simons on July 25, 2012

I’d been out of the UK for 10 days, during which I had deliberately denied myself access to TV or newspapers. It was my tiny but heroic revolt against the usual 24/7 news bombardment. The minute I got back and turned on the telly, there it was: wall-to-wall Olympics-themed advertising. It had gone from nowhere [...]

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