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Astonishing Charles Bronson Ad From Japan Puts Old Spice Guy To Shame
Facial hair, ripped abs, horseback riding, gunplay. A new ad for Old Spice?Not exactly.It's an old commercial for the Japanese men's toiletry brand "Mandom" which — unlike Old Spice — is not a parody....
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Pennsylvania Ad Agency Places 'Hipsters Wanted' Ad In New York Magazine
Pavone, a branding firm in Pennsylvania, placed a "Hipsters Wanted" ad in New York Magazine. It's hoping to recruit groovy candidates that non-New York states apparently "don't have."The classified ad...
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News Corp. Has A New Logo Based On Rupert Murdoch's Signature
News Corp., which split off its news properties from its TV and film divisions, has unveiled a new logo for the news unit, based on owner Rupert Murdoch's handwriting."The script is based on the...
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JCPenney Forced To Deny Tea Kettle Looks Like Hitler (JCP)
JCPenney has officially denied that a tea kettle being advertised on a billboard on the 405 Interstate near Culver City, Calif., is intended to represent Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator during World...
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Victoria's Secret Eats Humble Pie And Re-Hires Kate Upton
She's "too obvious,""too blonde" and has the "kind of face that anyone with enough money can go out and buy."That's what Victoria's Secret casting director Sophia Neophitou, said of Kate Upton in an...
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Facebook Will Block Photos Celebrating Rape Following Ad Boycott
Facebook is in the midst of a PR crisis as brands including Nationwide and Nissan's UK divisions pull advertising over pro-rape and domestic violence images.See the banned images here (warning: they...
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This Video Ad Server Is Now Backed By $121 Million In Venture Funding
Videology, a video ad serving platform for advertisers, agencies and publishers, raised $60 million in new investment funding, reports AdExchanger:"When you have people offering to give you money, why...
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BuzzFeed Is Teaming Up With CNN On A YouTube Project [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:BuzzFeed and CNN launched a co-branded YouTube channel. SVP/CNN Digital K.C. Estenson told the WSJ that "by pairing the journalistic strength...
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Twitter Is Going Head-To-Head With Facebook In 'Custom Audience' Advertising
Lost in the shuffle last week when Twitter officially unveiled two new video ad products was Bloomberg's unconfirmed report that Twitter is also working on a "custom audiences" advertising...
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Victoria's Secret Used Kate Upton's Old Pictures Without Telling Her And She...
Yesterday, we noted how weird it was that Kate Upton would model for Victoria's Secret after the company's casting director had bad-mouthed the model, calling her "too obvious," and looking too much...
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Kellogg's Pays $4 Million Settlement After Claiming Frosted Mini Wheats Make...
NEW YORK (AP) — Kellogg has agreed to pay $4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over the marketing claims it made for Frosted Mini-Wheats.The company, which also makes Frosted Flakes, Eggo...
View ArticleHow Advertisers Can Survive As Americans Ditch Traditional TV
Television is going through a complete transformation—or several transformations at once. As viewers move beyond traditional broadcast models to consume media in new ways, marketers are scrambling to...
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McDONALD's CEO: 'We Don't Sell Junk Food'
McDonald's CEO Don Thompson recently denied that the fast-food chain sells junk food.At the company's annual shareholders meeting last week, a 9-year-old girl named Hannah asked Thompson why he didn't...
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See The 'Jewish Baby Bibs' Everyone Is Complaining About Before Amazon Takes...
An Amazon seller is advertising "Jewish baby bibs" that rely on stereotypes of Jews in a possible violation of the company's policy prohibiting products that "glorify hatred, violence, racial, sexual...
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What Mary Meeker Says About The State Of Advertising On The Web
Kleiner Perkins partner and former analyst Mary Meeker just released her in-depth look at the state of the web. This year, she devoted a huge chunk of her 100-page-plus slide deck to advertising, media...
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PBS Bets You Can't Tell If These Reality Shows Are Real Or Fake
If you can't beat them, mock them.Apparently that's the theory behind the new advertising campaign for WNET, the PBS station that broadcasts on channel 13 in New York, that launched this week.Posters...
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There Was A Lovely Ad Campaign Designed To Fight Mississippi's Reputation As...
Earlier today we posted "The 7 States That The Rest Of America Would Like To Kick Out Of the Country," based on a Reddit thread that tried to find which states the country could most easily part with....
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Young Mothers Are Denouncing This Pregnancy Prevention Campaign For Shaming...
In honor of National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month, The Candie's Foundation launched a celebrity-endorsed anti-teen Pregnancy campaign that is now getting harsh criticism for "shaming" young...
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A Bird Fungus Nearly Killed This Dallas Ad Woman So She Made A Campaign To...
Ever heard of Histoplasmosis?Neither had Publicis creative director Julia Melle when the disease almost killed her several years ago.That is why she and her colleagues at Publicis's Dallas office...
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Karen Kaplan's Meteoric Rise From Receptionist To CEO
When Karen Kaplan, 53, first walked through the doors of Hill Holliday in 1982, she had no advertising experience, or even the shorthand skills to work as a secretary. The 22-year-old was placed at the...
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