AshleyMadison.com Newspaper Ad Denied

It seems to me, part of AshleyMadison.com marketing strategy is trying to buy ad time or space for advertising that they know will be rejected by the publishers. This way they get free publicity when the media write about AshleyMadison.com problems. Recently they had a Super Bowl TV ad rejected (see Story) and back in 2007 Microsoft denied their ads from showing on their Microsoft Network web portal (see Story). There have been other incidents as well, including a bill board in New York City.

The most recent print ad problem deals with a $20,000 ad in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The advertisement was suppose to run 2 days after U.S. Sen. John Ensign's confirmed an extramarital affair with a women who worked on his campaign. The publisher of the paper decided the ad was not right for their paper and did not run it.