The Musee d'Orsay in Paris, France contains artworks by the likes of Monet, Renoir, Gauguin and Van Gogh… but you'd be forgiven for not noticing them in this video.

That's because this video shows the moment fashion chain Etam pulled a marketing stunt by sending lingerie-clad women there to parade around.

Footage shows the women drop their coats in the middle of the busy gallery and then run towards the exit as bemused art-lovers watch on.

And while one or two men seem to have enjoyed the impromptu striptease, Musee d'Orsay less so -- their lawyers are making a formal complaint to Etam.

While we don't like to be impressed by adverts, sometimes we can't help it. And given our fondness for funny CCTV footage this was always going to be one of those times.

Now we don't want to spoil it too much for you, but the plot of the viral LG advert is that a smart crook almost pulls of an amazing theft from an electronics store.

So far more than 1.5 million people have watched his daring crime on Youtube and most have been impressed, if not by the crime but by the advert.

Movie bosses at Warner Bros have come up with a interesting way to market the Steven Soderberdh film Contagian -- a living bacteria-based billboard advert.

The 'viral marketing' seems an apt fit for the film which follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days, though is still decidedly gross.

Scientists were recruited to create the two specially made Petri dishes and a range of specially grown coloured bacteria which was installed in an abandoned shop window in Toronto.

Over a period of five days mouldy movie advert -- made from bacteria including penicillin, mould and pigmented bacteria -- then grew into the bizarre billboard.

More than 14,000 sun worshippers hoping to get a have have tried to order a new "miracle" tanning cream -- without realising it's a spoof from a skin cancer charity.

The tan-seekers were apparently convinced by the Sunny-3 website which claimed the cream could "triple the power of the sun".

It was also said that using Sunny 3 meant people could sunbath at night and there was even a fake news report about "night tanning" parties on light summer evenings.

And in the week the site has been live, 250,000 people have seen it and 14,000 have tried to order the £7.99 cream. However, rather than a tan they instead receive an email warning them about skin cancer.

Given how many times boffins have attempted to calculate the formula behind the perfect cup of tea, you'd think they'd already cured cancer.

And now they're at it again with a team from the University of Northumbria this time claiming to have unlocked the secrets of the perfect cuppa.

After 180 hours of research and 285 cups of tea, the boffins say they deduced tea is best drunk six minutes after two minutes of brewing and adding 10ml of milk.

However, we realised the study was rubbish (or that we were tea snobs) after reading that they said a teabag should be used, rather than loose tea.

After discovering that many Brits would jump at the chance of sleeping with a celebrity, a hotel is giving them the chance to do just that, sort of.

Alton Towers Resort is offering guests pillows with the faces of Cheryl Cole or David Beckham printed on them after the duo topped a poll of fantasy celeb bedfellows.

Cheryl Cole topped the list of female celebs people wanted to sleep with with a massive 71% of the vote while David was the first choice British male with 36%.

Holly Willoughby (14%) and Kate Middleton (9%) took second and third place, while Bruce Forsyth (12%) and Prince William (8%) took the honours in their respective poll. Yes, that did say Bruce Forsyth came second. We don't know.

When you think about adverts selling houses, it's probably dubious estate agent clichés like "delightfully bijou" and misleading photos, which spring to mind.

Well that's all about to change the moment you click play on this video and witness the way an Australian firm markets houses, complete with a lingerie model and armed commandos.

Estate agents NEO Property say they prefer to sell houses by creating viral adverts which feature gratuitously sexy close-ups of breasts and action shots… oh yeah, and the house.

This particular one shows a woman being held hostage wearing just her underwear and phoning for help and then describing the house as armed commandos are dispatched to save her. Foxtons it is not.

A German brewery has started touting its no-alcohol beer as the latest sports drink for athletes claiming it has "regenerative benefits".

Erdinger Alkoholfrei is now being given out at the finish line of sporting events - like the World Cup biathlons - and sports stars are even being signed up to help promote it.

Brewery bosses say the no-alcohol beer is "a very healthy product" and that being isotonic and vitamin-rich makes it an effectine drink to sip on post exercise.

However, unlike traditional sports drinks, it's served with a frothy head and is a familiar golden colour -- not in a squeezey bottle.

While we certainly think this is a step up from most isotonic drinks, we've always been partial to a glass of Rochefort 10 after working up a sweat.

Yes he's a fictional character used to sell car insurance, but that doesn't look like it will stop Aleksandr Orlov’s new ‘autobiography’ from becoming a best seller.

A book telling the 'life story' of the world's most famous meerkat looks set to become a hit after making it into Amazon's Top 100 pre-orders.

As a result the £9.99 publication is nows being tipped to become a Christmas best-seller with some book experts saying it could perform better than ones by Tony Blair or Jamie Oliver.

The blurb says the book tells the "full story of his ancestor's Journey of Courageousness from the Kalahari to Russia, the low-down on his life as entrepreneur and founder of comparethemeerkat.com and his love of grubs and cravats."

Sounds riveting, if you like reading about characters created by advertising men… personally we're holding out for the memoirs of the GoCompare opera singer.

A slide has been installed in place of stairs at a Berlin subway to give fun-loving commuters a 'fast lane' to their train.

Unfortunately this isn't new German public transport policy but a marketing stunt by Volkswagen.

Their "Fun Theory" team set up the giant red slide next to the escalators inside Alexanderplatz station - much to the confusion of bemused travellers.

They then stood back and watched to see how many people chose to use it rather than the traditional stairs of escalator.

Volkswagen say the scheme shows how people will voluntarily change their behaviour for the better if offered a fun way of doing it. Admit it, you would too.