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Mercedes' Simplistic Yet Jarring Ad Will Convince You To Never Text And Drive...
Texting is now the leading cause of teenage road-related deaths, and it is getting an influx of well-meaning ad dollars from car companies. Mercedes-Benz released new ads that bank heavily on somber...
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Is Banner Advertising Dead? Take Our Quick Survey And Let Us Know
Do you often find yourself targeting demographics? Shifting paradigms? Promoting synergy? Despising buzzwords?If so, we’d like to hear from you.How are you allocating your marketing budget? Do you...
View ArticleCap'n Crunch Is Using Vine To Jump On The Ryan Gosling Meme Bandwagon
Meme-extraordinaire Ryan Gosling went viral this month after Ryan McHenry created a series of 6-second Vines showing the actor in various movie clips refusing to eat his cereal.In a quick-thinking...
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Whole Foods Is Trying To Shake Its 'Whole Paycheck' Image
For years, Whole Foods has been plagued by the nickname "Whole paycheck" because of its costly, organic cuisine. But the retailer is trying to shake this reputation by offering "budget classes" at its...
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Skechers Will Pay $40 Million Over Claims That Its Sneakers Toned Muscles
Skechers must pay $40 million to people who bought its "toning" shoes, a federal judge has ruled.The settlement covers more than 520,000 claims that the health benefits of some of the company's shoes,...
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How To Lie, Cheat, And Manipulate Your Way To Social Media Dominance
Ryan Holiday is a media mastermind, at least the way he tells it.The college drop-out quit school at 19 but went on to become a PR advisor to Linkin Park and Tucker Max. He's best known as the main PR...
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ENDING SOON: Enter 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...
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Uni-Ball Pen Ad Features Ridiculously Racist Black Gangster Stereotype
Just weeks after Mountain Dew nosedived into a PR disaster for making what some called "arguably the most racist commercial in history," pen-maker Uni-Ball is courting trouble with a commercial that...
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JCPenney Is Stealthily Unveiling A Brand New Logo
At the beginning of Ron Johnson's short-lived but infamous reign as JCPenney CEO in January 2012, he unveiled a logo that completely rebranded the company as JCP.It was its third in as many...
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Here's How An 8-Year-Old David Foster Wallace Speech Suddenly Became A Viral...
Last week, in the midst of commencement season, small L.A. video production company The Glossary released a five-minute cinematic interpretation of David Foster Wallace's philosophically resonant 2005...
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BII REPORT: Here Are The Major Players In Mobile Advertising
We are in the post-PC era, and soon billions of consumers will be carrying around Internet-connected mobile devices for up to 16 hours a day. Mobile audiences have exploded as a result.Mobile...
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AD OF THE DAY: Old Spice Makes Its Weirdest Ad Yet
Terry Crews, our favorite shouting shirtless Old Spice guy, is back in a new series of Wieden + Kennedy ads for Old Spice shaving gel.Muscles popping, Crews is simply crazy about how NEW Old Spice...
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The 15 Most Shameless Movie Product Placements Of All Time
What is most memorable about Baz Luhrman's movie adaptation of The Great Gatsby?The lavish parties? The silk shirt scene? Or is it the multitude of product placements that pervade the film from...
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Vine Will Now Host Brand New 'Peanuts' Stop Motion Comics [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:Pretty soon, Vine will be used as a platform for 12 "Peanuts" stop motion, 6-second comics. Khoa Phan's Vine animations got the attention of...
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Target Poster From The '60s Looks Strikingly Similar To Mad Men Season 6 Ad
Illustrator Brian Sanders' hand-drawn, vintage-style poster for the "Mad Men" season 6 premiere drove fans wild with its hidden plot clues.It drove Target historian — yes, that's a real thing — Tony...
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Sorry, Everyone! The $2,000 Gwyneth Paltrow Groupon Is Sold Out
If you want to spend $2,000 to take a cooking class taught by Gwyneth Paltrow, it's too late. Sixty people already bought her Groupon package, which features a night in a hotel, a trip to a spa and...
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Here's Burlesque Star Dita Von Teese's Super-Classy eBay Ad For Her Vintage Car
Burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese is selling her blue 1939 Packard 120 sedan on eBay.And what better way to up interest in an auction than to add some seductive pictures taken in said car?Sure the car...
View ArticleMan Gives Abercrombie Clothes To Homeless People As Revenge For CEO's 'Cool...
Greg Karber was bothered by our story about Abercrombie refusing to make clothes for large women since CEO Michael Jeffries apparently doesn't consider that group to be part of the "cool kids."So...
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How Bad Is TV Right Now? Univision Routinely Gets More Viewers Than NBC
There has been one huge takeaway from the TV networks' "upfront" events this week, where the broadcast channels tout their shows and audiences for advertisers: Univision now routinely gets more viewers...
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Former Victoria's Secret Model Reveals Why She Gave Up Lingerie Modeling For...
Former Victoria's Secret model Kylie Bisutti just released a book about leaving the brand because of her Christian beliefs.Bisutti told The Daily Beast about the incidents that spurred her leaving....
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