Meet The Secret Powerbroker Who Decides The Color Of The Year
Leatrice Eiseman is somewhere in the world right now looking for the next Color of the Year.The executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, Eiseman has made this important decision for the past...
View ArticleHow Kevin Ware Can Turn His Devastating Injury Into An Advantage
I suppose this isn’t the moment to be thinking about Kevin Ware’s personal brand.After his spectacular and horrifying injury at yesterday’s NCAA game, the Louisville basketball player should focus on...
View ArticleGoogle Paid This Man $100 Million: Here's His Story
Two years ago, Twitter was in disarray. On April 14, 2011, Fortune's Jessi Hempel blasted Twitter for failing to launch exciting new products, generate meaningful revenues, or hang on to executive...
View ArticleEverything You Need To Know Before Watching 'Mad Men' Season 6
Season 6 of 'Mad Men' premieres on Sunday, and many of us need a refresher course on key plot points. From one character's psychedelic adventures to another's dramatic suicide, there's a lot to...
View ArticleSteve Jobs' Longtime Advisor Admits Apple Screwed Up The iPhone Naming System...
For six years, Ken Segall worked with Apple and Steve Jobs, first as a creative director at TBWA/Chiat/Day, Apple's longtime ad agency, and then as a consultant to Apple until 2008.In that role, he...
View ArticleDon Draper's Fake Ads Are Terrible Compared To Real 1960s Ads
Last year, we told you about the real brands that have appeared in "Mad Men" and the fake ads that the staff of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce have created for them over the years.Since then, a whole new...
View ArticleThe Disgusting Truth About How Often American Women Actually Wash Their Bras
Michelle Lam is the CEO of True&Co., an online-only lingerie company. She believes that many women are wearing bras that are the wrong size and that they don't get the right sizes because they hate...
View ArticleHere's What The Cast Of 'Mad Men' Is Like In Real Life
AMC's hit show "Mad Men" finally returns tonight with a two-hour season six premiere.But the actors who play the often-stuffy sixties characters on TV, are nothing like their on-screen personas in real...
View ArticleLinkedIn Finished Renovating Its Empire State Building Offices And Gave Us A...
Just over a year ago, we visited LinkedIn's New York offices.Many of the careers site's sales and marketing staff are based there (the tech staff is at the HQ in Mountain View, Calif.)At the time, only...
View ArticleThis Is The Christina Hendricks Ad For Johnnie Walker From The 'Mad Men'...
AMC's premiere of Season 6 of Mad Men featured a nice ad for Johnnie Walker starring Christina Hendricks — who plays Joan, of course.Hendricks has been JW's pitchwoman for several months and the ad...
View ArticleFormer FCC Chairman Wants The Redskins To Change Their Name [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:Former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt thinks that the Washington Redskins needs to change their name. He wants owner Dan Snyder "to change the archaic...
View ArticleWhat Facebook's Ads For Facebook Home Look Like Inside Facebook (FB)
Facebook really, really wants you to try Facebook Home on your Android phones. Home is the new Facebook app that takes over your phone's home screen, functioning as a sort of operating system skin on...
View ArticleFacebook's Weird New 'Home' Ad Triggers Wave Of Negative Reaction (FB)
Facebook's new ad for Facebook Home is very, very strange, and just like a previous TV commercial ("Chairs") it's attracting a lot of attention.But perhaps not the attention Facebook hoped for.The ad,...
View ArticleEnter To Win A Kindle Fire From Business Insider
We're giving you a chance to win a Kindle Fire HD. Become a newsletter subscriber now to enter. If you're the lucky winner you will have a host of features at your fingertips. Entry deadline is May...
View ArticleBusiness Insider Is Hiring An Operations Account Coordinator
Learn about the dynamic world of online ad sales and operations at a growing online publisher. The Operations Account Coordinator will join a team that is responsible for executing advertising...
View ArticleKFC Hopes This Strange New Slogan Is The Next 'Where's The Beef'
After three years of development and testing, KFC is unrolling a new menu item it hopes will help the company turn around: boneless original recipe chicken. It's twice the size of one of the...
View ArticleBank Of America Debuted A Beautiful New Commercial Whose Inspiration Came...
People are buzzing about Bank of America's new commercial that features an elderly couple traveling back in time via snapshots.We saw the commercial last night during Mad Men, which was perfect, since...
View ArticleThe NBA Forced Knicks Player Iman Shumpert To Shave An Adidas Logo Out Of His...
Iman Shumpert, who is well-known for his high-top hairdo often has a design shaved in the back of his head. On Friday night, that design was an Adidas logo (see image at right), and the NBA decided...
View ArticleINFOGRAPHIC: How Location Data Is Being Collected And Transforming The Mobile...
With over 770 million GPS-enabled smartphones, location data has begun to permeate the entire mobile space. The possibilities for location-based services on mobile go beyond consumer-facing apps like...
View ArticleBusinesses Are Losing The Right To Ask For Customer ZIP Codes
When cashiers ask "May I have your ZIP code, please?" do you give out a fake number, your own (which has proven inadvisable), or decline the request altogether?In the near future, you might not have to...
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