Chobani Pulls Yogurt From Shelves After Customers Complain About A Horrible...
Chobani pulled some yogurt from shelves after customers took to social media to complain about the taste. Laura Northrup at The Consumerist published a testimonial from a reader who described a "sharp,...
View ArticleUnilever Apologizes For Ad Comparing Coming Out To Shooting Dad In The Heart
Unilever, the parent company of both Axe and Dove, had to apologize for a rogue ad for Flora margarine that likens coming out of the closet to shooting your dad in the heart.A poster shows the words...
View ArticleSee Gisele Bündchen Sing Classic Rock In H&M's Latest Ad
Gisele Bündchen made her millions by modeling and acting. In H&M's latest ad she reveals another talent: singing. Bündchen belts out her own rendition of The Kinks' "All Day And All Of The Night."...
View ArticleTell Us Who The Most Creative Person In Advertising Is Right Now
Business Insider is putting out a call to the ad world to tell us who are the most creative people in advertising right now.They can work in traditional television commercials, be Facebook marketing...
View ArticleShoe Company Apologizes For Ad Insinuating Dog Owners Could Run Their...
Athletic apparel company Pearl Izumi has pulled an ad that insinuated a new shoe design would enable dog owners to run their companions to death.The print ad says in part:"This undeniable smoothness...
View ArticleHeineken Is Using Instagram In An Awesome, Innovative Way
Brands are consistently trying to find innovative ways to engage with consumers on Instagram. Heinken is taking it to a new, creative level with an Instagram scavenger hunt that will eventually lead...
View ArticleThis YouTube Pre-Roll Ad Actually Makes The World A Better Place
While YouTube watchers sometimes groan at pre-roll, ad agency VML worked with the Australian police to create a digital video advertisement that actually makes the world a better place.As a part of...
View ArticleMentos Completely Changed Its Jingle [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:McKinney updated the Mentos jingle for its first commercial since taking over the account from the Martin AgencyDannon is coming back to the...
View ArticleHow Social Media Will Power This Fall's TV Hits And Make Advertising More...
Research has shown that TV-watching and social media usage isn't mutually exclusive. Consumers love using social media while they watch TV. Many discuss what they're watching, from reality shows to...
View ArticleLizards Eat Football Star Wes Welker's Legs In Hilarious New Batch Of Old...
Old Spice continued its run of brilliant goofballery in four new ads featuring the NFL's Wes Welker and Jerod Mayo.The cream of the crop, in our humble opinion, features Welker luxuriating in a...
View ArticleWatch LG Terrify Job Applicants Into Thinking Their Flat Screens Are Really...
What better way to demonstrate the life-like quality of your televisions than by using them to scare the bejesus out of people?That's what LG Chile did in a prankvertisement promoting its 82-inch...
View ArticleWhy World Cup Brazil 2014 Is Crucial For Digital Video Advertisers
The World Cup Brazil 2014 might be nine months away, but advertisers are already clamoring to figure out how to produce branded videos around the event. And for very good reason.According to...
View ArticleThis Is Yahoo's Brand New Logo
Marissa Mayer made a lot of changes at Yahoo, but one of the most noticeable is the emergence of the company's brand new logo.After 30 days of teasing new, but overall incredibly similar, designs,...
View ArticleWeak Ad Business Puts Yahoo's COO 'On The Outs' With Marissa Meyer [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:Yahoo's chief operating officer Henrique De Castro could be gone by the end of the year. Adweek reports that Castro is "on the outs" with CEO...
View ArticleHow Big Data Is Transforming The Mobile Industry
The world is awash in data.CIBC, a Canadian bank, predicts that information-generation growth will increase 50 times over the next decade. IDC, a market research firm, similarly forecasts a 44-fold...
View ArticleThe Internet Hates Yahoo's New Logo
After spending a month teasing the Internet with possible redesigns, Yahoo unveiled its new logo at midnight and it is ... mostly the same. The letters are less jumbled, and Yahoo darkened its purple...
View ArticleBusiness Insider Is Hiring A Business Development / Programmatic Manager
Business Insider believes programmatic ad buying is reshaping the way digital ads are bought. We're looking for a business development generalist with specific knowledge of programmatic ad-buying to...
View ArticleVC Explains The Advantages Of New York City Over San Francisco
Silicon Alley beats Silicon Valley for entrepreneurship in at least a few areas.GGV Capital venture capital associate Andy Manoske laid out the advantages in a post on Quora, reprinted below with...
View ArticleThe Site That Shows You All The Personal Data Advertisers Have On You Isn't...
An experiment in transparency by one of the largest marketing data brokers has had some interesting results.Acxiom's Aboutthedata.com, which allows you to view the personal details that the company...
View ArticleAn Incredible New Guinness Ad Breaks The Industry Stereotype
Beer commercials are generally pretty juvenile.For the most part, they depict men as unfeeling doofuses who only want to hook up with hot women and watch sports without being bothered by their...
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