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Sierra Mist Lemon Squeeze is sponsoring a YouTube contest seeking comedians.

Wal-Mart Stores will host Soap Opera Digest’s in-store promotion this fall, for the third time.

Statlistics has been appointed list manager for the NCM List Services
Division, the owner of several lists of U.S. government employees. More
than 600,000 names are available.

Sportsman’s Guide offers this list of 28,777 Web site-generated buyers.
The average sale was $90 for baseballs, gloves, bats, memorabilia,
apparel and such. Buyers include baseball players, coaches, parents and
team managers.

Subscribers to various independent business magazines are combined on
this file. The count is 116,270. Those listed include subscribers to the
Ann Arbor Business Journal, Colorado Biz, In Business Las Vegas, Indiana
Business, Oakland Business Journal and Rochester Business Journal, among
others.

The Custom Select list group has been expanded to include a file
identifying more than 1.1 million car, van, truck and SUV owners. These
men (62% of those listed) and women purchased extended warranties after
their vehicles’ original factory warranties expired.

Scam artists who focused their efforts on senior citizens were aided by at least one bank, Wachovia, and by list compiler infoUSA, according to a front-page article in Sunday’s New York Times.

Fair Isaac Corp., the company that detects credit fraud for financial institutions, announced Friday that preliminary findings from its study of click fraud in pay-per-click advertising suggest that bogus clicks can reach 10% to 15% of billed traffic.

There’s a tossup regarding which I detest more, cigarette smoke or censorship. Because of this, recent efforts to classify any movie that depicts smoking with an R rating put me in a bit of a bind.

I’m going with my anti-censorship sympathies for two reasons. First, a society that tolerates free expression should put minimal fetters on writers and directors.

Second, censors tend to have rapacious appetites. Once started, who knows what the next target of their pique will be?

A leaked draft document from the Motion Pictures Association of America Inc. answers that question.

Consumer groups are calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate digital food and beverage marketing of junk foods to children after a new report revealed that the technology is contributing to poor nutrition and obesity.