Whenever women complain at the sexual objectification of women, let them direct their protest at the culprits, namely women, writes Bob Jones.

Have you ever wondered why the supermarket toilet paper aisle features more puppies and kittens than a pet shop?

The shift to plain packaging for cigarettes should further reduce the already low smoking rate of 15 per cent of the adult population, writes Paul Little.

Future generations will look back with horrified incredulity at how we allowed a cartel of international drug pushers to promote and sell poison legally.

From next month, cameras fixed to 22 digital billboards in Sydney will size up passers-by and show them adverts based, among other things, on their sex and age.

Viewer survey shows that those costly commercials are quickly forgotten.

'It's like Lotto, only much better.'Tim Hazeldine looks at how big brewers are getting crafty when it comes to catching a bigger audience for their advertising.

Watch Budweiser's Super Bowl XLVIII commercial following the special friendship between the Clydesdales and a puppy.

Using technology to get inside customers' minds has sent an Auckland advertising firm in a new direction.

A claim about which battery the All Blacks trust has sparked a dispute between rival manufacturers.

Vodafone has settled a case with the Commerce Commission and paid out almost $270,000 to 11,000 customers who signed up to a mobile broadband promotion.

Motorists are turning their cars into mobile billboards - with hopes of being paid up to $1k a month .CarAds began operating in Auckland this week, connecting advertisers with car owners willing to be paid to have their cars emblazoned with ads.

An advertiser has been ordered to remove online claims that magnetic wrist and ankle bands have therapeutic benefits including relieving tension and purifying blood.

An advert featuring Kim Dotcom offering "truly unlimited broadband" has been deemed misleading by the advertising watchdog.

We must first conquer our island syndrome and pull together if we are ever to win the world from the edge, writes Kevin Roberts.

By taking time to focus on your successes this past year, you will feel more positive.

A complaint about an advertisement for Grand Theft Auto Five which showed "people where to decapitate someone'' is to be upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority this month.

Research shows that while women do exhibit negative reactions to sexual imagery, this diminishes for high value products.

Countdown has been ordered to withdraw advertisements for a "one-day sale'' that ran online for 21 hours over two days.