Nielsen: Q3 Ad Spending Up 7%

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Heavy Olympic and political advertising in the third quarter contributed to big growth. But overall, 2012 growth is still pegged at only slight improvement.
Nielsen says advertising spending in the U.S. for the third quarter 2012 was up 7% versus the third quarter 2011.