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December 31, 2010 Ashley Madison gears up for Valentine's Day!

Avid Life Media prepares for Valentine's Day the Ashley Madison way, helping people have affairs to remember. With Valentine's Day right around the corner, women all over the globe are joining Ashley Madison to find someone to make them feel special! After the mistress for Christmas program wound down, the next most popular holiday is Valentine's Day, but don't be fooled, Mother's Day is right around the corner and everyone knows the day after Mother's Day is the busiest day of the year!

November 24, 2010 Ashley Madison releases the BEST place to have an affair!

Ashley Madison takes a look at the top 3 cities in North America to have an affair in. We then found the best restaurants and places to take your affair partner to dinner and even for a night of romance. The top three cities were really not a surprise. Toronto ranked in at #1 followed by New York City and Los Angeles. If you are in these cities you may already know most of the places to go, or you may learn of a place or two that you had not known about. A must read article!

November 1, 2010 Website helps Sandra Bullock get revenge on Jesse James and Michelle "Bombshell" McGee?

A new website was released this week, which has prompted bloggers and web surfers all over the Internet to be able to insert a photo of someone and create a pole dancing digital strip tease of the person using Michelle "Bombshell" McGee's body. The website www.PoleDanceAFriend.com was an immediate hit and is thought to have gone viral. News of the Michelle McGee and Ashley Madison deal began in May/June. TMZ broke the news that, "Bombhell arrived in Toronto this weekend to shoot commercials for AshleyMadison.com, sources tell TMZ. The shoot is at a strip club -- appropriate since, we're told, the infidelity poster child will be getting nekkid for some of the spots. Here's the kicker -- Bombshell will make about $500/hour for the shoot, but sources tell us she'll take home a percentage of any new traffic she brings in for the site."

October 17, 2010 Ashley Madison makes global headline news again!

Ashley Madison, is offering the Chilean miner, Yonni Barrios, a $100,000 endorsement deal to be the Spanish speaking spokesperson for our extramarital affair website. Barrios’s responsibilities would include starring in TV commercials, radio ads and public appearances in North, South and Central America. Since our launch in 2002, more than 17 percent of new married dating members are Spanish speaking. No word yet if Barrios will sign on the dotted line.

September 29, 2010 Ashley Madison makes global headline news!

Married life in London is about to get much harder. If the stresses of work, commuting and frantic consumerism weren't enough, the world's largest infidelity website, Ashley Madison, is now launching in the UK, brandishing the tag line, “Life Is Short. Have An Affair.” In the UK around 40 per cent of people married or in long-term relationships cheat at some stage. More than half of women and around 60 per cent of men have been unfaithful in the past. Biderman expects to have 200,000 London subscribers using our services by Christmas, and then eventually bringing in £10 million in the UK. As if London didn't see this coming after Ashley Madison had enormous success in Australia, Germany, and North America. Biderman hasn't released if there are any plans to expand into any other countries, but you can believe that if he does, it will make headline news!

September 8, 2010 Ashley Madison explores the politics of cheating!

Affairs have become as common place in society as obesity, coffee, and smoking. Society has adapted to accept homosexuality, medical marijuana use, and even pornography. Adultery has become one of the issues that people continue to refuse to accept, but at the same time, it has become more acceptable and even forgivable (HINT: World's First Billionaire Athelete Tiger Woods). Affairs and cheating are nothing new to society, it just has become something that has skyrocketed into the spotlight because of prominent people like John Edwards and websites like Ashley Madison. In fact, the newest information we have compiled takes a look at the last one hundred years of America's cheating politicians and political affairs.

August 25, 2010 Noel Biderman appears on The Huckabee Show!

Ashley Madison CEO appeared on The Huckabee Show defending this website. As he points out in the Interview, Ashley Madison is just the platform for married and looking individuals to connect with each other. Our commericals and advertising is not going to convince someone to have an affair if they never had any intentions or exploring the married dating market. Our services exist because of the market for people in committed relationships who are not having their needs met in their marriages. Ashley Madison did NOT invent adultery, nor are we the only married dating website out there, but we are LEADING in the industry.

August 19, 2010 Ashley Madison CEO interviews with Sean Cole of Marketplace Money!

Sean Cole says, "Because the more I learned about Noel (Ashley Madison's CEO), the more I wanted to talk with him about one thing in particular: His marketing strategy. See, Noel buys traditional ads where he can. But of course, a lot of big media companies won't take ads from Ashley Madison..." This is true, Ashley Madison has had a hard time finding companies willing to publicize its advertising, but Ashley Madison has been successful because of its other means of getting the word out. Ashley Madison has one of the most successful and profitable affiliate programs for webmasters who are able to make a percentage of income for each sale they generate for Ashley Madison. Ashley Madison also does a lot of marketing through the Internet, Google, and other search engines.

August 15, 2010 Fantasia Barrino makes affair headlines!

Former American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino’s alleged affair with a married man and her consequent suicide attempt hit headlines all. Barrino was alleged as involving with a married man and taping their sexual encounters. The sex tape has made news similar to the John Edwards and Rielle Hunter affair and sex tape. There was even more chatter as it is alleged that lyrics in Fantasia's "Lucky" Refer to Affair with Married Man according to an Associated Press article.

August 5, 2010 "Life is short, have an affair!" billboard urges cheaters to take a chance on romance.

Atlantic city is a poker player's heaven or nightmare, and the lesser paradise of a gambler in comparison to Las Vegas. The billboard that's been catching eyes lately on the the Black Horse Pike entrance to Atlantic City, featuring the company's marketing motto: "Life is Short. Have an Affair." The billboard was just the start of an Ashley Madison push into Atlantic City and its casinos, says company's president, Noel Biderman. Ashley Madison always follows up its billboards with radio and TV ads in the same market, and it has already had prime, morning drive-time spots on two local rock stations. Biderman also says he believes a gambler's paradise may also be a cheater's paradise. An article from pressofAtlanticCity.com was quoted, "Any city that has a motto of 'Always Turned On' should probably expect ads like that," Pantalena, 68, said, relaxing on a Boardwalk bench with two friends.

June 13, 2010 Model contestant for commercials banned from beauty pageant

Sophie Froment, a contender for the title of Miss Universe Canada was disqualified on Saturday from the competition after pageant directors had obtained information that she appeared in advertisements promoting extra-marital affairs through our company. Sophie Froment, of Gatineau, met with pageant directors discuss her involvement with our company. A statement on the website of Beauties of Canada, the organization that produces the Miss Universe Canada pageant, said Froment "is a bright and talented woman ... Unfortunately, she had made some career choices that are not compatible with the image of women that our organization tries to promote ..." Ashley's CEO response was, "Froment works to pay for her education. Instead of condemning her, they should be commending her."

FOLLOW UP: August 4, 2010 Sophie Froment lands appearance in Drake music video set to be released in the near future.

June 10, 2010 New York's Meadowlands Stadium could soon be Ashley Madison Stadium

Ashley Madison's CEO Noel Biderman offered $25,000,000 for a 5-year naming deal to rename NFL's New York Giants and NFL's New York Jets' stadium from Meadowlands Stadium to .Ashley Madison Stadium. Mr. Biderman also stated, "We would be pleased to match any such superior offer." It is unclear when any decisions will be made about the naming rights. Ashley Madison had a prior Super Bowl commercial banned from appearing during the last Super Bowl.

May 31, 2010 Michelle 'Bombshell' McGee to Strip for AshleyMadison Commercial Spoof Ads

Michelle "Bombshell" McGee, the tattooed model mistress of Sandra Bullock’s estranged husband Jesse James, reportedly appeared in a commercial spoof advertisement for the affairs-based dating website, AshleyMadison.com With over six million members worldwide, AshleyMadison.com, is "the world's leading married dated service" for people looking to start a "discreet affair" According to AshleyMadison.com President, Noel Biderman, he asked McGee if she was interested in being part of his viral ad after he found out that she was coming up to Toronto to appear at a local nightclub. Biderman explains that the viral spoof ad will allow users to place their or their friend’s faces on bodies that are stripping and when he heard Michelle was going to be in town he couldn't pass up shooting her now infamous tattooed body. Bullock filed for divorce after McGee claimed that she was involved in an 11-month relationship with James.

May 31, 2010 Australian viewers slam TV ad for infidelity website

Yesterday a TV commercial for our married dating website generated a flood of complaints after it screened on Sunday night during the hit Australian crime drama Underbelly. The television show which is notorious for its nudity and violence, but the commercial showed relatively tame images of a man and a woman about to "get it on". They were accompanied by the words, "This couple is married. But not to each other", and our trademark, "Life is short. Have an affair". According to The Australian, more than 20 complaints were received yesterday by the nation's advertising watchdog, which said it would examine whether the ad infringed on acceptable community social values by promoting cheating. A determination is expected to be reached in the next few weeks. According to the Australian, a spokeswoman for the Nine Network said the ad had been approved by the classification division of industry body Free TV Australia. "It's a legal business and it's an ad that was approved, and the ad was put to air in the appropriate time slot," the spokeswoman said. "It ran after 9pm. It's a moral issue for each individual." Our main website launched in North America in 2002, and we further expanded our married dating services to Australia in March of this year (2010), where we already have more than 100,000 Australian members.

May 12, 2010 Noel Biderman interviewed on Hannity

Mother's Day took place on May 9, 2010. The following day, Monday May 10, 2010, more than 31,000 women signed up for the Ashley Madison married dating service. That's 10 times the average number who typically sign up on any given Monday. In the interview which you can watch on Youtube, Hannity says, "Why would you not have a conscience bother you that this might hurt people's marriages?" Noel Biderman responds with, "You know, Sean, we're different people. I would build a service for same-sex couples. You probably wouldn't approve of that, but I did. It's called ManCrunch, and I'm proud of it. Same way that entrepreneurs like me are needed all the time. I'm at the cutting-edge of what society needs. You want to preserve the status quo. We're just different. We're both valuable, but we're different."