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One Of The World's Biggest Mobile Ad Companies Is In Huge Trouble And Has...
We first told you that Velti, the little-known but relatively massive mobile ad company, was in trouble back in June, when we demoted CEO Alex Moukas to 10th place on our annual ranking of the most...
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Google Saved An Estimated $887 Million By Paying Adblock To Show Its Ads
Google and Adblock Plus, the browser add-on dedicated to eradicating "annoying ads" everywhere on the web, have had a complex relationship.In March, Google blocked the Adblock Plus app from Google Play...
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Hanes Asks Female Customers The Color Of Their Underwear
Hanes wants to know what color underwear its female customers are wearing. The promotion is advertised on the retailer's Facebook page. Customers who participate can win free underwear. The underwear...
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Awesome Resumes Inspired By Amazon, Facebook, Ebay, And More
Jobseekers are becoming ever more imaginative when it comes to pulling together a CV for the creative industries. The latest to be applauded for his efforts is Chris Liu, a would-be copywriter who...
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11 Ways Big Brands Are Chasing Millennials
Major brands like McDonald's, Wal-Mart, and Budweiser are zooming in on millennial consumers. Some are taking drastic measures to attract the young generation, and for good reason.By 2020, 30% of all...
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Ad Executive Dies When Balcony Collapses In Manhattan
Ad executive Jennifer Rosoff, 35, died Wednesday night after her 17th-floor balcony railing collapsed in Midtown Manhattan.She was on the balcony with a friend on their first date.“[Her date] advised...
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Facebook Is Riddled With Click Farms Where Workers Sit In Dingy Rooms, Bars...
How much do you like courgettes, the green vegetable Americans call zucchini? According to one Facebook page devoted to them, hundreds of people find them delightful enough to click the "like" button –...
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BLACKOUT: This Is What CBS Looks Like In New York Right Now For Time Warner...
CBS and Time Warner Cable have failed to come to agreement regarding fees to retransmit content.So when Time Warner subscribers turn to CBS in New York City, Dallas and Los Angeles, you get a blue...
View ArticleAD OF THE DAY: James Franco get Punched In The Face
James Franco will be Comedy Central's next punching bag.The Comedy Central Roast of Jame Franco will tape this month in Los Angeles and premiere Labor Day on the network. The roast already has an...
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Here's The Real Reason Syncapse Went Bankrupt — And It's Not Facebook's Fault...
We recently reported on the bankruptcy and layoffs at Syncapse, a Facebook preferred marketing developer (PMD) that had taken $45 million in funding, had ~180 employees globally, and clients such as...
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11 Absolutely Bizarre Craigslist Ads
There are a lot of weird Craiglist ads bouncing around the Internet.You can get anything from a cronut to a last minute wedding date to a butt-shaped pumpkin.At this point, even Craigslist is in on the...
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How Martin Sorrell Can Exploit The Omnicom-Publicis Merger
Sir Martin Sorrell is more used to making the news rather than reacting to it. But it was in reaction mode that he found himself last weekend when he learnt that Omnicom and Publicis were to merge.If...
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Facebook Poached Its First-Ever CMO From Google [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:Facebook hired Google alum Gary Briggs to be its first CMO. He was the chief marketer at Motorola Mobility after Google acquired the company....
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Facebook Has Hired A Guy From Pepsi To Fix Its 'Weird' Problem (FB)
The news that Facebook has hired Gary Briggs, a former brand manager of Pepsi, to be its new chief marketing officer may come as a surprise.Many people thought Facebook already had a chief marketer —...
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Company Accuses LinkedIn Of 'Extreme Sexism' After It Pulled An Ad Featuring...
Toptal, a small developer networking platform, is accusing LinkedIn of perpetuating "extreme sexism within the tech community."Why? The tech giant started rejecting Toptal's ads for female engineers...
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Emirates Created A Google Street View To Show Off Its Huge, Luxurious Planes
Emirates has a new way to show off just how great it can be to travel in one of its Airbus A380 jumbojets: It partnered with Google to create a Street View for the plane, a first for an aircraft.The...
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Mercedes Doesn't Want You To See This Weird, Sexual Innuendo-Filled Video It...
Mercedes-Benz posted and then took down a bizarre video— in which a throaty singer rhapsodizes from a car's point of view about her "service" man to a backdrop of muscly mechanic stock photos — on...
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A Famous Rugby Player Raced A Plane To Promote New British Airways Routes
Starting next February, British Airways is planing to bring one of their newest birds down to Johannesburg, so it makes sense to build some excitement around the news of a new A380 route.We're not...
View ArticleNokia Bashes The iPhone's Camera Using Apple's Advertising Style (NOK, AAPL)
Nokia has a new ad attacking Apple's iPhone. It takes the ad style Apple used recently to advertise its camera, then spins it around to say the camera on the Lumia 925 is much better than the camera on...
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Struggling JCPenney Gets A New Marketing Chief
NEW YORK (AP) — J.C. Penney Co. has hired an executive from the mac-and-cheese world to reconnect with its middle-income shoppers.The beleaguered department store on Monday named Kraft Foods Inc....
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