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Virgin Sues Blogger Over Fake Ad, Gives Fake Ad Massive Exposure

Hamilton Nolan — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:12:16 EST

Virgin is always making those cheeky ads for itself, right? But when a blogger does it in obvious parody style, Virgin sues them. Scrubs.

Virgin America is suing Adrants, one of the small handful of actually readable ad blogs, because they ran this parody Virgin ad (made by someone else!) that you see at left. They've pulled it now after Virgin sent them a huge threatening attorney's letter, but apparently the lawsuit (for defamation and other ridiculous things) is still a real threat. Of course their lawsuit has now caused the fake ad to be posted in ten times more places than it ever would have had they just left it alone.

I thought you were good at PR, Richard Branson. [Agency Spy]

Virgin America is like a rave gone wrong

Jackson West — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:40:00 EDT

I'm posting this in the air, people, as I fly to Los Angeles for tonight's PopSugar-TechCrunch party. Virgin America in a nutshell: Lots and lots of purple, candy-cornered everything, and a guy playing Doom on his individual LCD display. It's like I stepped into some future predicted by Wired and ID in 1994. I'm scared to ask for an orange juice because it might be spiked with MDMA.

Xeni Jardin, Kevin Rose, and friends get in bed with Virgin

Nick Douglas — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:10:58 EDT

After wooing San Francisco at its hub airport, Virgin America has enlisted seven Internet heroes to pitch the new airline. Seen here are Xeni Jardin, Cory Doctorow, David Pescovitz, and Mark Frauenfelder of Boing Boing; Peter Rojas of Engadget; and Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose of Diggnation. You can see them in these Virgin cartoon spots, which are like C-minus episodes of Sealab 2021.

Richard Branson gets a bit wet over Virgin America

Owen Thomas — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:36:08 EDT

We missed this the first time around: Virgin founder Richard Branson, touting the new San Francisco-based airline Virgin America, drenches Colbert Report host Stephen Colbert with a bottle of water. Whatever it takes, Sir Richard, as long as you keep provoking United and American into suicidal fare wars on the SFO-JFK route.

Virgin America kicks off service to San Francisco

Owen Thomas — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:23:13 EDT

There's nothing sexy about air travel today, and despite Virgin founder Richard Branson's best efforts, we really don't think Virgin America's new service is going to change that. But lower airfares between JFK and SFO? That sounds superhot to us.

What JetBlue left unfinished in its battle with United and American over the transcontinental route, Virgin is sure to finish; no wonder the dominant airlines squawked so much about Virgin's launch. Whatever it takes to make the Gotham-to-Bay Area Babylon shuffle less expensive, we're down with. And we'll give Branson this much: He throws a hell of a publicity stunt. Cheerleaders, aging chorus-line dancers, and surfer girls adorned the party he hosted for the arrival of Virgin America's inaugural flight in San Francisco. Gavin Newsom, the supernaturally handsome god-mayor of San Francisco (bow down and worship, fools!) was on hand to greet him, and a Valleywag lenser was on the scene.

–Photos by Randal Alan Smith for Valleywag