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This Writer Was Caught Using A Revlon Hair Extensions Ad As Her Author Headshot
There is a thriving self-published author community on Amazon, and they are not too happy with romance writer "Elizabeth Nelson."Here's a photo compilation from satirist Andrew Shaffer, comparing her...
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Why A Nigerian Bleach Company Made An Ad With President Obama Dressed As A...
According to a poll last year, a staggering one in six Americans believed President Barack Obama is a Muslim. So to them, this Hypo bleach ad running in Nigeria would make perfect sense. In it, Obama...
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Cheerios Will Air A Super Bowl Ad From The Team Behind Its Huge Mixed-Race...
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:Cheerios announced it will have a TV ad during this year's Super Bowl. The General Mills brand announced on its blog that the ad will center on...
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Upscale Department Store Suggests Spending All Your Christmas Money On...
Ever gotten the urge to spend all your Christmas shopping money on yourself? This year, the high-end British department store Harvey Nichols is suggesting their customers do just that with a campaign...
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Mobile Display Advertising Is As Messy And Confusing As Ever, Here's How All...
In the United States, mobile now accounts for 15% of overall spending on digital advertising, which is almost double the share mobile had just a year ago.That's the good news.The bad news is that...
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This Online Quiz Asks Whether Advertising Executives Have Bigger Egos Than...
Kanye West has compared himself to Steve Jobs and Jesus. He started public beefs with both Jimmy Kimmel and Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. He insists his "Bound 2" music video is high art. He revels in his...
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Twitter's Mobile Ad Offerings Just Took A Huge Step Forward — And They Might...
Twitter is rolling out an advertising product that allows advertisers to target mobile users based on how they surf the Web on their desktops, a function that isn't yet fully available to Facebook's...
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A Coke-Filled Feud Between A Celebrity Cook And A Legendary Ad Exec Has The...
There was one story that dominated the British papers today. It trended on social media, and slogans related to the story are now appearing in graffiti on walls and on T-shirts. It's a winding tale of...
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Watch How These Cancer Patients Reacted To Getting Hilariously Awful Makeovers
The French charity the Mimi Foundation told 20 cancer patients they would give them makeovers. All that was required of them was to keep their eyes closed to make the reveal more exciting. The patients...
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Unilever Announces Brutal Cuts: 800 Marketing Jobs Gone; 30% Of Products Axed...
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:Unilever announced in an investors' meeting yesterday that it will be cutting 800 marketers, decreasing its product varieties by 30 percent, and...
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How Pepsi's Grammar Errors In Social Media Hurt Its Fight Against Coke
According to a recent study, customers value proper grammar more than anything else in their social media interactions with brands.That's bad news for Pepsi, which makes more grammar errors on LinkedIn...
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Here's How To Actually Convince Mobile Consumers To Share Their Location Data
There is no question that location data is what makes mobile so powerful for marketers and businesses. But it also happens to be the information that consumers are most inclined to protect. So...
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Patriots Linebacker Jerod Mayo Finally Has His Own Line Of Mayo
Earlier this year, retired basketball star Shaquille O'Neal stretched the limit of branding puns with his "Soda Shaq" soda line. Now, possibly the most obvious endorsed product in the sports world has...
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A Pizza Company Was An Online Hero Last Night During 'The Sound of Music'
The Web was alive with the sound of pizza last night, as the DiGiorno brand took to Twitter to live-tweet Carrie Underwood's performance as Maria Von Trapp in NBC's live broadcast of "The Sound of...
View ArticleThis Japanese Ad Is So Scary It Begins With A Health Warning
A Japanese tire company has released a horror-film-inspired video that's gone viral in part because it contains a genuine shock but also because it comes with a health warning. (The health warning...
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Native Ads Will Be The Centerpiece Of All Social Media Advertising In The...
Time spent on social media has officially tipped from the desktop to mobile. This has huge implications for social advertising. Native advertising, in which posts are integrated into the social media...
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These Old Letters From Ford Show The Rejected Names For Edsel — Including...
The 1958 Ford Edsel was supposed to be revolutionary.Caught up in a marketing frenzy, Ford made the terrible decision to debut 18 variations of the same car at once. It resulted in a car meant to...
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Starbucks' $450 Gold Cards Sold Out In Seconds, But You Can Get Them On E-Bay...
Starbucks' $450 limited-edition line of rose-gold gift cards sold out within seconds on Friday, and now more than 100 cards are up for sale on E-Bay for as much as $5,000. The highly-coveted cards,...
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12 Successful Entrepreneurs Share The Best Advice They Ever Got
Being a successful entrepreneur frequently involves a series of missteps and mistakes before finally nailing the right idea or business.The difference, for many, between giving up and persisting...
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Psychologist Daniel Kahneman May Have Unlocked The Holy Grail For Advertising
Admen have made a marketing guru of Daniel Kahneman, a prizewinning psychologistFIRST, you realise it’s a gorilla. The opening strains of Phil Collins’s "In the Air Tonight" are playing; the beast is...
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