Miami's tourism bureau is planning it first winter marketing push since the 9/11 attacks. Faced with declining hotel bookings, bureau executives plan $1 million worth of advertising in early 2009. Miami's balmy weather usually sells itself. One reason to click through on this story: To check out the intrusive splash screen ad for the Panthers, the Miami hockey team -- seems like there should be a joke here -- who are offering a one-day sale.

"Have I no self-restraint?" I ask myself as I type and watch myself get sucked deeper into the maw that is the Annual Super Bowl Ad Watch. "You've already indecently run at least one, maybe two, stories about this. When does it end?" Better yet, when does it begin? Because, like the holiday music that's piped into the gym, it seems to be earlier and earlier every year. In any event, here's what you need to know, and it's all in the lede of an Associated Press story: "Most advertising slots for the 2009 Super Bowl that weren't sold …

EBay is offering a new program called Large Merchant Services to help large merchants sell thousands of fixed-price products, Andrea James reports. The service competes with Amazon's professional merchant services. Still in beta, the service "provides an efficient way to process large numbers of transactions within the eBay Trading Platform." It also offers inventory management based on SKU numbers.

The appointment to head a special economic advisory board with 8 to 16 additional members is expected later today. The group will provide the new administration with outside advice on dealing with the nation's financial crisis.

Happy Thanksgiving. We'll be back on the beat on Friday.

Nissan is pulling out of the 2009 North American International Auto Show in Detroit (as well as the 2009 Chicago Motor Show). "Nissan's departure shakes the foundation of a show that is Detroit's signature annual event," writes Brent Snavely. The show generates nearly $500 million in tourism dollars for the Motor City. The decision was made after Nissan unveiled three new or redesigned cars at the Los Angeles auto show, says Nissan North American spokesman Alan Buddendeck, and because of the need to review all marketing expenditures during the worst industry sales environment in 25 years. Joe Serra, …

Spirit Airlines began promoting a "Detroit Bailout" sale yesterday, offering air travelers the opportunity to fly from Detroit to domestic and international destinations at prices starting from $59 each way based on a round-trip ticket purchase. The sale ends at 11:59 p.m. today. Poking fun at Detroit's isn't the low-fare carrier's first humorous promotion. Recent efforts include more randy pitches such as a "threesome" sale, which combined three sales into one and beckoned customers to "join us in the fun," Nathan Hurst reports.

Fact is, there are plenty of kindred to Spirit's fare-cutting in Detroit this season. Even though airlines have eliminated about 200,000 seats per day by zapping routes and grounding planes, analysts say the winter sales suggest that airlines are struggling to fill their planes. Delta has a long list of one-way specials priced between $59 and $199; Southwest is offering $87 one-way flights between Baltimore and Chicago in early December; American has one-way tickets between Washington and Miami for $49 and one-way tickets to Los Angeles for $109, though it refuses to call its discounting a fare sale, Sholnn …

When things are bad, we can at least make them look good, right? NPR's Andrea Seabrook caught up with Macy's window designer Paul Olszewski as he was putting the finishing touches on this year's animated holiday window display at the 34th Street flagship store in Manhattan. The theme of the season is "Believe." Believe in what? "I wanted to take all the simple things that surround us during the holidays and make you believe that so much more goes into them, that so much magic goes into them," Olszewski says. So, for instance? Well, take the "Emotion …

Reena Jana reports that David Rockwell, architect and Broadway set designer, has moved his 240-person firm into Brand Consulting Land for clients such as Coca-Cola, Jet Blue and Gap. Rockwell gave Nobu, the high-end Japanese restaurant, its simple, no-tablecloth look when it opened in New York in 1994. In an accompanying video, Rockwell is asked why it's important to invest in design in a downturn. His immediate answer demands the respect, if not necessarily the sheckles, of true believers everywhere: "It's important to invest in design because I'm a designer," he says. He then goes on to suggest that …