Now Amy's Baking Company Is Selling Hats And T-Shirts Based On Its Epic Meltdown
Most of you remember Amy and Samy Bouzaglo, the charming duo behind Amy’s Baking Company. Their, ahem, bats**t personalities gained notoriety thanks to their infamous encounter with Gordon Ramsay on...
View ArticleThere's Something Really Strange About JPMorgan Chase's Digital Ad Review
JPMorgan Chase is reviewing its $70-80 million digital advertising business.The intriguing nugget from this fairly standard practice comes in details sources told Adweek about how the company is going...
View ArticleAD OF THE DAY: Kiefer Sutherland Will Convince You To Take A Tequila Shot
Keifer Sutherland, best known for his character Jack Bauer from the Fox series '24,' gets a tattoo, speaks in Spanish, has a fight with a beautiful woman and then makes up ... "all night long"... in...
View ArticleTumblr Has New Tools To Help Brands [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:Tumblr has new analysis tools that are helpful for brands. It will let them know how much time people are spending on brands' Tumblr pages and...
View ArticleReddit CEO Admits The Site Once Bowed To Pressure From Sears
Reddit CEO Yishan Wong has made good on his promise to publish a chart of Reddit's revenues vs. expenses so that readers can see how profitable the company isn't.Much of Reddit's revenues come from...
View ArticleBefore 'Breaking Bad,' Aaron Paul Did A Series Of Awesome Commercials
The highly-anticipated return of "Breaking Bad" is in three more days.We've been counting down to the premiere with a look back at the series this week. On the AMC series, Paul plays Jesse Pinkman, a...
View ArticleRussell Simmons Rocks IGNITION 2013
Russell Simmons turned the music industry upside down with Def Jam Records.Brian Robbins' Awesomeness TV lights up the mobile phones of those elusive tastemakers, tweens.Put the two together and you...
View ArticleAnalyst Sounds Warning On Death Of TV: 'Cord Cutting Used To Be An Urban...
Moffett Research founder and analyst Craig Moffett said in a report on declining pay TV subscriptions that cord-cutters — consumers who don't want to subscribe to pay TV services because they can get...
View ArticleWatch A Panhandler's Surprising Speech That Ended With Cheers And Chest Bumps
Subway riders approach their daily commutes prepared to be serenaded by mariachi bands or a capella groups, dodge kicks to face by break dancers, and listen to stories from homeless people asking for...
View ArticleThe Discovery Channel Is Really Upset About That Dead Shark On A New York Subway
When a dead shark was discovered in a New York City subway train Wednesday, some were quick to cry "marketing stunt." "Looks like a good promo for Shark Week on the Discover Channel,"MTA spokesman...
View ArticleA 4-Year-Old Kenyan Fulfilled His Bucket List In This Heartbreaking Video
In Kenya, a child has a one in five chance of dying before they reach the age of 5.So DDB NY and clean-water organization Water Is Life took 4-year-old Nkaitole on a journey to fulfill his bucket list:...
View ArticleSmashburger CEO Attributes Success To Unorthodox Marketing Strategy
Smashburger has opened more than 200 restaurants in the past seven years. Founder Tom Ryan told Nation's Restaurant News the fast-casual chain's success can be attributed to an unconventional...
View ArticleAD OF THE DAY: Little Girl Explains The Google Fiber TV Remote With The Help...
Finding your favorite show on TV is like trying to spot a rare bird, according to this Google Fiber commercial.Thankfully, the Internet and television provider's remote — a Nexus 7 tablet that comes...
View ArticleMORGAN STANLEY: Facebook's Video Ads Will Generate $1 Billion In 2014 Even...
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:Morgan Stanleyreleased a report estimating that Facebook's highly anticipated video ads, which will play in the news feed, will generate $1...
View ArticleThe Times' Nate Silver Insults The Paper's Ad Sales Staff On Eve Of Taking...
Nate Silver, the New York Times blogger and statistician who called the last U.S. presidential election with eerie accuracy based on his polling models, said something needlessly insulting about his...
View ArticleRTB Or Real-Time Bidding Is The Future Of Digital And Mobile Advertising —...
Real-time bidding is a kind of automated or programmatic buying of advertising placements. It is to digital advertising what high-frequency trading is to Wall Street. It involves computerized,...
View ArticleYahoo Paid $750 Million For Tumblr's 'Intangible' Assets
When Yahoo acquired Tumblr for a total of $1.1 billion, we knew that much of that purchase price was based on the promise of Tumblr, not what Tumblr has historically delivered.The company had focused...
View ArticleNationwide's New Catsuit-Wearing Spy Looks A Lot Like Erin From Esurance
Nationwide Insurance recently released a new campaign in which a leather-clad spokescharacter (who doesn't actually speak) does acrobatics around a house that is getting robbed, replacing stolen...
View ArticleCHART: How Many Friends See Your Facebook Posts? The Debate's Over, It's 35%
Each user post on Facebook is seen by an average 35% of the user's friends, according to a comprehensive recent study led by Stanford University researcher Michael Bernstein, who collaborated with...
View ArticleLook How Groupon's Core Daily Deal Business Has Declined (GRPN)
A couple of years ago, everyone seemed at excited about Groupon. Every day, there was a new email in your inbox, offering discount sushi or low-cost yoga. What was not to like?If you're one of those...
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