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Why Chase Is Partnering Up With Reality TV
Before tonight's premiere of "Top Chef Masters," foodies had a chance to try David Burke and other nationally renowned chefs' first meals at an intimate underground event in Soho. Fifty VIP guests were...
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Chipotle Faked A Twitter Hack In Order To Get More Followers
Burrito chain Chipotle admitted to Mashable yesterday that it faked a Twitter hack in order to promote the company's 20th anniversary and gain more followers.On Sunday, the official Chipotle Twitter...
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Lance Armstrong Says It's The Postal Service's Fault For Giving Him $41...
Lance Armstrong' defense of the false claims lawsuit brought against him by former cycling teammate Floyd Landis is a breathtaking act of chutzpah: It is the government's fault that his sponsor, the...
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Walgreens Is Trying To Find Out If Mobile Coupons Work [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:Walgreens and Duane Reade teamed up with L'Oreal to launch a mobile coupon campaign. They companies hope to find out if an ad on a smartphone...
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Why Facebook's Era Of Fast Mobile Growth Is Coming To An End (FB)
Investors drove up the price of Facebook stock by more than 30% overnight, to ~$34 on news of its huge growth in mobile ads in Q2 2013.Those investors appear to be ignoring what CEO Mark Zuckerberg and...
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Spirit Airlines Released An Ad Featuring Anthony Weiner As A Masked Hot Dog
Will an Anthony Weiner reference make you want to buy a plane ticket? Spirit Airlines' marketing team says, "yes!"The carrier has released yet another tasteless ad that exploits tragic current events:...
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There's An Online Movement Pressuring Nike To Make More Women's Sneakers
Emily Hodgson and Emilie Riis are annoyed. Their favorite Nike sneakers are only made in men's sizes.So the two ad agency employees, working at London's 18 Feet and Rising, decided to start a campaign...
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Business Insider Is Hiring A Business Manager For Our Paid Research Service
We're looking for a creative, hardworking business manager with extremely strong writing, analytic, and information-gathering and processing skills to join our growing BI Intelligence team. The job is...
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Mark Zuckerberg Is Worried About Whether Teens Still Like Facebook (FB)
One of the small-but-fascinating surprises from yesterday's Facebook earnings call was CEO Mark Zuckerberg's impromptu discussion of teens on Facebook, and whether they're abandoning the social...
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15% Of Facebook Users Would Pay A Monthly Fee To See No Ads (FB)
Facebook's ad business might be doing well but according to a new poll by Greenlight, the social media platform is missing out on an untapped revenue stream.Fifteen percent of Facebook users said they...
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When Agencies Should Say NO To New Business
Having worked in several advertising agencies over the course of many years, I can attest to the fact that new business is both the lifeblood of an agency and its biggest nightmare. It’s very difficult...
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9 Publicity Stunts That Went Horribly Wrong
When bizarre tweets started emanating from Chipotle's Twitter handle Tuesday — like, "twitter Find avocado store in Arv"— the public thought that it had been hacked. This theory gained traction after...
View ArticleAD OF THE DAY: A Kleenex Can Hold 32 Egg Yolks
Kleenex and Studiocom partnered up with a Miami high school science class to find out how many egg yolks a Kleenex could hold before breaking."Basically the eggs represented a lot of mucus because of...
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Liquid Plumr Turns Up The Sleaze In Another Porn-Themed Ad For Drain Declogger
Liquid Plumr has doubled down on its "plumber as porn movie actor" meme in a new commercial for Liquid Plumr Urgent Care ("when you need it now").The new spot stars a brunette who picks up a bottle of...
View ArticleIntel And Toshiba Are Launching A Web Series About Evil Mustaches And...
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:Intel and Toshiba gained international attention — and awards — for its social-film campaign last year called "The Beauty Inside." Created by...
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Sheryl Sandberg Admits Facebook's Ad Exchange Is 'Very Small' (FB)
It was, perhaps, the biggest disappointment in Facebook's Q2 2013 earnings call this week: COO Sheryl Sandberg made a surprise announcement that FBX, Facebook's much vaunted ad exchange, is not a...
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Mini Made A 'Carlos D Motor' Twitter Account To Mock Anthony Weiner
The recent revelation that Anthony Weiner emailed naked pictures of himself under the moniker "Carlos Danger" is too ridiculous to not mock.Embracing the scandal's buzz, Mini just launched a Twitter...
View ArticleThis Anti-Beer, Pro-Marijuana Ad Will Run During A NASCAR Race
Beer-loving NASCAR fans are in for quite the surprise when they enter the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the Brickyard 400 this weekend.A pro-marijuana legalization ad — laced with anti-beer and...
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4 Ad Creatives Avoid Prison For Asking Voters To Bribe The Senate
Bribe the Senate, a tongue- in-cheek campaign launched in all seriousness nine days ago to get the discussion of mandatory background checks on gun purchases back on the US Senate’s agenda, has run...
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Tired People Get Free Coffee For Yawning At This Machine
Dutch coffee company Douwe Egbert has apparently imported its latest vending machine directly from paradise.Confident that a single taste would convert coffee drinkers to their brand, the company...
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