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Why AAN Members Should Sell AAN CAN Ads

Richard Karpel  |  02-20-2003  2:12 pm  |  Industry News

Some Alts Breaking with Sex Advertisersnew

Some alternative weekly publishers tell AJR they have cut back on ads from adult advertisers because raunchy ads scare away traditional advertisers. Others, like the Memphis Flyer, insist on tops for their advertisers' topless dancers. Alison Draper, publisher of the Dallas Observer, says she just wants to "clean up the book" to attract higher-end advertisers. Others are taking the same steps, breaking with a traditionally significant sector of alt-weekly advertising.
AJR  |  01-02-2003  5:27 pm  |  Industry News

Crackdown on Escort Adsnew

The Montreal police's organized-crime division urges local papers to reconsider running escort agency ads or face charges for solicitation, the Globe and Mail reports. In Canada, prostitution itself is not illegal, but solicitation for sex is. AAN member NOW Magazine in Toronto has been through this kind of crackdown before, the newspaper reports. In 1990, 14 counts of "communicating for the purpose of prostitution" were brought against it, but the Crown later dropped the case.
The Globe and Mail  |  11-12-2002  2:32 pm  |  Industry News

AAN CAN Sales Promotion Announced

Three top sellers get trip to AAN West (FULL STORY)
AAN Staff  |  10-08-2002  5:01 pm  |  Industry News

Chicago Real Estate Ad Market Boomingnew

Ads for apartments have skyrocketed in the past year, Chicago Reader Classifieds Manager Brett Murphy tells Crain's Chicago Business. The jump has fueled 25 percent growth in ad volume at a time when help-wanted ads are down, and landlords who once took out a single ad to find a tenant now run one for many weeks, he tells the business newspaper.
Crain's Chicago Business (registration required)  |  10-01-2002  10:26 am  |  Industry News

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