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Girl-In-Pink Carly Foulkes Hints She May Return To Rescue T-Mobile From Sales...
T-Mobile girl Carly Foulkes hinted on Vine that she may be making a return to the wireless carrier's ad campaign. In a six-second video, posted via Twitter, she showed a bunch of magenta (pink) cloth...
View ArticleHere's Microsoft's Latest Ad Slamming Apple's iPad (AAPL, MSFT)
Microsoft just posted its latest Windows ad on YouTube.The video shows two baseball recruiters standing side-by-side, watching a young player and using tablets. The recruiter with the Windows tablet...
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Facebook Has Banned Ad Price 'Arbitrage' (FB)
Facebook has changed its policies to prevent media buyers over-charging for Facebook ads through what some in the industry call "arbitrage"— the practice of buying ad inventory cheaply and selling it...
View ArticleThis Grand Theft Auto V Gameplay Ad Has Been Seen 6 Million Times in Just 24...
This ad for Grand Theft Auto Vhas been watched 6 million times in just 24 hours. The new version of the Rockstar game is back in Southern California. It launches Sept. 17.Adtech is in a bubble poised...
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Is The Car The Next Frontier For The Mobile Revolution?
Now that the mobile floodgates are open, developers, manufacturers, and platform operators are trying to find devices that will channel the next wave of mobile usage and innovation. One line of...
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The SEC Says Hedge Funds Can Advertise To Everyone Now
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, hedge funds will be allowed to advertise to the general public under a rule adopted Wednesday by federal regulators.The Securities and Exchange Commission voted...
View ArticleT-Mobile Has New Ads Starring Bill Hader, And They're Actually Pretty Good
T-Mobile announced today a new program it calls "JUMP," which is an acronym for "Just upgrade my phone." It's making it easier for its customers to upgrade their phones. If you pay an extra $10 a...
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The Most-Connected Person On LinkedIn Says He's Going To Take Over The World
Steven Burda is better at LinkedIn than anyone in the world.The 32-year-old Ukrainian-American is the most-connected and recommended on the professional network, boasting more than 50,000 direct...
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A Valley Bigwig Explains Why He Doesn't Think Marissa Mayer's Tumblr...
Brad Garlinghouse, the former Yahoo exec famous for his "Peanut Butter Manifesto" that said Yahoo was spreading itself too thin, is generally a Marissa Mayer fan.But he's not convinced that buying...
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Google Is Willing To Spend $500 Million To Make Sure Motorola's Next Phone...
Google is willing to spend up to $500 million in marketing costs to promote Motorola's upcoming flagship smartphone, the Moto X, according to The Wall Street Journal.Motorola has been teasing the Moto...
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Microsoft Could Outsource Its Entire Ad Biz To Facebook Or Yahoo [The Brief]...
Good morning, Adland. Here's what you need to know today:Will Microsoft outsource its advertising to Facebook in its big corporate reorg?Adweek has some informed speculation about the Advertising...
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Mark Penn, Microsoft's Master Of Dark Political Arts, Gets A Boost In The...
In Microsoft's new corporate reorganization, a newly centralized Marketing Group will be led by Windows CMO/CFO Tami Reller and ... Mark Penn, who only joined the company last August.Penn came from...
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This Water Repellent Chemical Spray Is One Of The Most Incredible Things...
We don't normally recommend infomercial videos to our readers, but trust us on this one: This commercial for Rustoleum's NeverWet water-repellent spray is mind-boggling.NeverWet's "super-hydrophobic...
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Apple And Google Are No Longer Among America's Favorite Brands
Both Apple and Google failed to place among the top 10 best-perceived brands in the first half of 2013, according to market research from YouGov BrandIndex.Go straight to the list of America's favorite...
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CHART: Here Are The Most Effective Local-Mobile Targeting Strategies
Location-based mobile marketing promises the sky: high conversion rates, surgical targeting, and rich consumer profiles.But does it deliver? According to many accounts, it does. Not surprisingly,...
View ArticleGE Just Released One Of The Weirdest Tech Ads We've Ever Seen
Big data is one of the hot technologies changing the world but it's not a super sexy tech that lends itself to an advertisement. So GE got creative and came up with this really odd (but surprisingly...
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This Fiat 500 Was Created With 13 Naked Models And Body Paint [The Brief]
This ad for the Fiat 500 Abarth has been created entirely by naked models wearing only body paint. It's a great idea but not an original one. See our gallery of body-painted models posing as motorbikes...
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RadioShack Borrows A Trick From Apple In Its New Logo And Store Redesign
RadioShack, long the poor dowdy cousin of the electronics retail business, is sprucing up its image with a new logo and redesigned stores.The new brand marque ditches the 1990s-style serif font in...
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Arianna Huffington, John Borthwick, And Ricky Van Veen To Speak At IGNITION 2013
Anyone else having trouble keeping up with Arianna Huffington? New editions of the HuffPost rolling out across Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Twelve hours a day of live streaming video news--CNN for...
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Twitter Will Release Data On People Who Tweet Anti-Semitic Comments
To settle a legal action in France, Twitter will release data that will help identify people who made anti-semitic comments using the hashtag #unbonjuif (#agoodjew).It is illegal to publish...
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