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When they do, he said, they find ad clutter, not a focused message.

Such claims are becoming more popular in a world of ad clutter in which marketers strive to stand out.

When asked about ad clutter, Ms. MacDonald, the street team member, said she was not worried.

Of course, a fundamental reason for Olympic ad clutter is the soaring television rights fees for the Games.

Consumers concerned about ad clutter outdoors may want to hide indoors for the next month, especially if they traverse Times Square.

All these are part of the anxious efforts by advertisers and their agencies to stand out amid the ever-increasing ad clutter that bedevils consumers.

One benefit to viewers of marketers' keener interest in sponsoring the Winter Olympics will be less ad clutter.

Another problem is that brands riding piggyback on other brands can contribute to perceptions of ad clutter, which feed complaints that the popular culture is overcommercialized.

Business advertisers have also begun using other media like billboards and cable television networks like the Financial News Network to avoid the ad clutter in the most popular trade magazines.

The KBP advocates the 18-minute advertising per hour rule for Philippine TV stations, the 18-minute rule was strictly implemented to prevent ads cluttering the TV programs.

Worried that television ads cluttered with yachts and limos might be sending the wrong message, Gov. George E. Pataki asked state lottery officials last year to tone down their enticing "Hey, you never know" pitch.

But Karen C. Sortito, executive vice president for worldwide promotions at MGM/UA, which is releasing the new movie, is adamant that the essence of Bond has not been compromised in the name of cutting through ad clutter.

"The Moon Struck One" is a chilling tale of childhood tragedy, and the requiem for peace and quiet, "Where Do We Go from Here," resonates deeply, heard now in a world of public cell-phone calls, booming car stereos and coercive ad clutter.

He particularly criticized women's service magazines, calling them "a nightmare" and asserting that magazine ad clutter was one reason Philip Morris in recent years had channeled most of the increases in its cigarette marketing budgets to direct marketing and sales promotion and, to a lesser degree, to outdoor advertising.

That trend has many executives in the industry worried about the growing advertising clutter.

To get the attention of one prospect, for example, the agency sent a chain saw to symbolize how it can cut through advertising clutter.

She's also either more critical of advertising, or else she doesn't take time to absorb the message, because there is so much advertising clutter.

There is concern among marketers that these new tactics will merely increase advertising clutter, alienating consumers.

Is nothing safe from advertising clutter?

Interruptive online ads are thought to damage brands, yet we still see an awful lot of advertising clutter on the major publishing sites.

Ms. Pool also addressed the issue of advertising clutter, which she said is "in every conceivable nook and cranny of everyday life."

The challenge is complicated by the fact that competitors are also pitching new products at a rate that is further cluttering the existing advertising clutter.

The city has passed ordinances against billboards and regulates outdoor advertising, so the city is relatively free of advertising clutter.

Some see it as an unconventional way to reach their target audience, while others regard it as a unique option to cut through the advertising clutter.

- As one speaker after another scolded the industry for excessive advertising clutter, a few attendees promoted nontraditional venues for advertising.

The site is a response to a rising chorus of disdain for online advertising clutter and intrusion, hallmarks of the widely despised pop-up ads.

Mr. Weinberger said the campaign aimed not only to build awareness of Cathay through repetition, but also to break through the advertising clutter in New York.

But that didn't worry the network executives, who say they are more concerned about putting together a promotion big enough to cut through the advertising clutter than they are about confusing consumers.

With an eye toward the ludicrous aspects of commercials, some users create subject headings like "Pitiful Subway Commercials" and "Advertising Clutter on TV Sports."

The company coined the term "publitisement" to describe its stunt, "breaking through advertising clutter to achieve massive awareness" for its then-new "Nothing Ordinary About It" ad campaign.

Candidates were broadcasting commercials up to three times more frequently than they might have 10 years ago, some said, partly because there are so many more channels now, and so much more advertising clutter.

THE two Martins at Shaw & Landey have decided that the way into the consumer consciousness in the age of advertising clutter is through the de-familiarization of products or services.

Marketing experts cite several factors contributing to the turmoil in advertising: * An explosion of new products has glutted supermarkets, contributed to advertising clutter and made creative advertising breakthroughs difficult to achieve.

WHEN Michael Drexler, the agency media mogul, transferred his allegiance to Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt from Doyle Dane Bernbach he brought with him his concept of "event media," a panacea for advertising clutter.

He added, "There's so much advertising noise in New York, to stand out you need to do something dramatic."

(Rather than the "giver" actively informing themselves about what is needed they tend to be passive consumers of the active charities' advertising noise.)

"Anything that looks handmade or folksy is going to cut through what's called advertising noise," said Kathleen Hulser, a historian at the New-York Historical Society, "the fact that there are so many signs no one notices them anymore."