I think the plummeting of Carbonite stock was the end of this issue. Money says Rush stays where he is.
Here is the list of confirmed companies who have officially pulled their advertisements from the Rush Limbaugh radio show.
Service Magic home contractor
Hadeed Carpets
Accuquote Life Insurance
Vitacost vitamin supplier
Bonobos clothing company
Sensa weight- loss program
Thompson Creek Windows
AOL
Tax Resolution Services
ProFlowers
Legal Zoom online document creator
Carbonite web security firm
Citrix software maker
Sleep Train Mattresses
Sleep Number mattresses
Quicken Loans
Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington
Cascades Dental
Consolidated Credit Counseling Services
Constant Contact email marketing firm
Philadelphia Orchestra
Reputation Rhino online reputation consulting firm
St. Vincent's Medical Center
Cunningham Security
Regal Assets precious medal investment group
Freedom Debt Relief
Norway Savings Bank
Portland Ovations performing arts center
Stamps.com These companies say their ads were mistakenly run during Limbaugh's program and have contacted radio stations and media buyers to ensure their ads do not run during his program again.
JCPenney
Capital One
Goodwill
Geico
Sears
PolyCom web conferencing The following companies said they did not intentionally have their ads run during Limbaugh's show, but are also not specifically taking steps to remove the ads from his time slot.
John Deere
Bethesda Sedation Dentistry
Amberen menopause medication Other news outlets have reported that the following companies have pulled their advertisements. ABC News is working to confirm.
Downeast Energy
Matrix Direct
Netflix
RSVP Discount Beverage (declined to comment to ABC whether they had pulled their ads)Also Read
It is good to know whom to boycott.
Yesterday the left was crowing about Citrix dropping Rush, but they were on there today, advertising as usual.
Au contraire, mon ami. A central point in Limbaugh's quite thorough explanation, today, was the fact that there really IS NO danger at all to his show.
Direct Advertisers who contract with EIB for spots during his show are readily replaced with others from his well-padded waiting list. In fact, he noted there were already some new advertisers coming on board in the next couple of weeks to replace those who'd bailed on him, and a couple of those that had left, were begging to come back.
Indirect Advertisers -- the VAST majority, including the 28 (or however many it really is) that have supposedly left the show -- don't contract directly with EIB in the first place; they contract with the local affiliates. As such, Rush has no say as to whether their ads will run during his show, or not; its up to the local affiliate. So, even if they pull all of their ad buys, it's the affiliate that takes the hit; EIB feels nothing.
But, as Rush thoroughly explained, those Indirect Advertisers more than likely just sent a note to the local affiliate saying "Don't run our spot during Limbaugh's show"; it is highly unlikely that they'd pull their ads entirely considering they've already paid for the airtime.
As Rush said at the outset, this is "inside baseball" stuff that concerns the arcane inner workings of radio advertising. Don't expect the MSM lemmings to get it right.
I did pay attention to all of Rush’s ads today on WABC NYC , but there were of Ad Council ads or PSA. Cannot recall the real ads.
LOL Let me know if you don't get it.
28? I just three minutes ago read an article from Yahoo that says he lost 40! And listed them! I will find it and post it here.