'09: A Good Year for Debt Consolidators, Cell Phones

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You can tell a lot about what kind of year 2009 was just by looking at who increased and decreased ad spending the most.

For instance, a company called the National Mortgage Center, which claims to help consumers avoid foreclosures, boosted its ad spend to $17.2 million from about $40,000 in 2008, a 430-fold increase. Money4Gold  also logged a big jump in ad spending, as did Freedom Financial Network, a marketer that purports to help consumers manage their debt.

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