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What's love got to do with it?

Apparently a lot, when it comes to branding campaigns. Love is everywhere these days, and it is likely to be a promotional keyword in 2010.

Love is "a sentiment enthralling Madison Avenue in spite of -- or perhaps as an antidote to -- a downturn and two wars," writes Andrew Adam Newman in The New York Times. He cites at least four current ad campaigns -- for Blackberry, LensCrafters, Payless Shoes, and Subaru -- that use "love" as a theme. Indeed, they are only the newest additions to the love craze, as evidenced by McDonald's "I'm Lovin' It" campaign, introduced in 2003 and still running today.

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