Watch This Hilarious Maxipad Company's Response To A Ridiculous Facebook Post
Richard Neil just exposed every man to a reality UK maxipad maker, Bodyform, was hoping it would never have to face — "there is no such thing as a happy period." Last week, Neil posted a comment on...
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QUIZNOS CEO: The McRib Is A Mediocre Product That Succeeded Because Of...
Quiznos has a new CEO, and he's loving what McDonald's is doing with its limited-time offerings. Lisa Jennings at Nation's Restaurant News spoke with Quiznos CEO Stuart Mathis about his plans as he...
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GUTSY: Expedia's Gay Marriage Ad Is Narrated By A Homophobic Father
Expedia is publishing a series of videos under the rubric "find yours" which focus on why Americans make the journeys they do. Sounds dull, right? In fact most of the videos in the series have...
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BII REPORT: Here's How Consumers Are Shopping With Their Phones
Mobile devices are playing an increasingly large role in commerce. In a special report out from BI Intelligence, we analyze patterns around all types of mobile behavior, including how people use their...
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The Makers Of Axe Now Say It Can Cure Homosexuality
Unilever's Lynx, better known in the U.S. as Axe, posted a photo on its "Lynx Effect Hong Kong" Facebook wall that claims one spray can turn lesbians straight. The questionable post (right) was...
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Schools Are Trying Hard To Ban 'Highly Addictive' Flamin' Hot Cheetos
Some school districts in California and New Mexico are trying to ban Flamin' Hot Cheetos, reports ABC News. Why are they doing it? There's a concern about nutrition since each bag contains 26 grams of...
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The New Face Of CoverGirl Is A 13-Year-Old Cancer Patient
13-year-old Talia Joy Castellano of Orlando has had a tough past six years. At the age of seven, she was diagnosed with neuroblatoma, the most common extracranial solid cancer for children, and in...
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Facebook Just Launched Its Next Billion-Dollar Business (FB)
For months, Facebook has been testing a new kind of ad on mobile devices—ads for other apps. Now it's officially launched the app-ad program to all developers. Here's how it works: Developers place...
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Chick-fil-A Says That Its 'Fruitcake' Ad Was Not Anti-Gay
Chick-fil-A caused a bit of a stir when the blog Towleroad posted one of the fast food chain's coupons that read, "Only A Fruitcake Wouldn't Love Our Party Trays!" People got riled up about it because...
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Restaurants Are Starting To Make Instagram Menus [Photos]
Instagram has proven that it only takes a smartphone to become a food photographer with a following. It was only a matter of time until restaurants would start capitalizing on the trend. Click here to...
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Here's How Much The Top 15 Media CEOs Spend On Private Jets [Ranked]
We scoured the SEC filings of 15 biggest media companies, like News Corp. and Disney, to see which CEOs get the best perks in the form of private jets and other trinkets. One of them gets more than $1...
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Facebook Sees Increase In 'Mobile Only' Members — Today's Ad Brief
Apparently 19 percent of new Facebook fans have joined on their mobile devices. This should be comforting to brands who want to advertise on the app. Speaking of Facebook, the social media company is...
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Facebook's Adam Gerston Tells Us Why He Quit And Left His Unvested Stock (FB)
Adam Gerston, a manager of Facebook's preferred marketing developers program (which oversees all the independent software developers who want to plug their advertising products into Facebook) has left...
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Meet The 10 Most Followed Companies On Instagram — Ever
Marketers take notice. Even if your brand is not an active Instagram user people are still posting about you, and tagging your brand name with a hashtag. Take McDonald's as an example, while the...
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Bloomberg Businessweek's Cover On The Fall Of Best Buy Is Really Creepy (BBY)
Bloomberg Businessweek's zombie Best Buy cover for October, via editor Josh Tyrangiel on Twitter: NOW SEE: The End Of The Retail World As We Know It > Please follow Retail on Twitter and...
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Professional Models Are Accusing Top Agencies Of Massive Fraud
A group of models is fighting back against agencies and cosmetics companies they claim made millions off them without their consent. Lead plaintiff Louisa Raske, 31, is suing Trump Model Management,...
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Pepsi Blames Unions And Labor Day Coming On The 'Wrong' Day For Sales Decline...
PepsiCo had a bizarre explanation for the decline in its soda and beverage sales in North America in its 10-Q filing with the SEC: Labor Day came on the wrong day this year. It's true that sales can...
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CHARTS: Google's Q3 Shows Its Power To Monetize Clicks Is In Decline
Google's Q3 2012 ad revenue rose 19 percent to $11.5 billion. (Total revenues, including Motorola Mobility) were $14.1 billion.) But the devil is in the details: Although Google's earnings release —...
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Here's How Victoria's Secret Photoshops Its Models
From Photoshopping facelifts to digitally deleting a model's rib cage, advertisers are regularly guilty of excessively retouching photos. But often the manipulations are more subtle. Jezebel's Jenna...
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DKNY Owes Its Incredible Twitter Success To One Woman
Aliza Licht, SVP, Global Communications at Donna Karan International, is the voice leading the brand’s Twitter success. For some who presume social media is handled by interns, this was a surprise....
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