"While automakers' TV ad budgets were squarely focused on the NFL Playoffs in January, those games were not the only place to find potential car buyers," iSpot.tv's Stuart Schwartzapfel tells ...

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While advocacy groups have used ads to challenge public policy or spotlight social ills, these spots mark a new take by focusing on a federal agency.