Chicago Ad Agency Denies That It Was Raining Poop In Its Office Today
UPDATE: The video has been removed from Instagram.If you thought you were having a tough time with the bad weather brought on by the "polar vortex," you might want to take a look at this Instagram...
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Here's The New York Times' First Ever Native Ad
The New York Times debuted its redesigned website today, and that includes the company's first ever native advertisement.The Times' first ever foray into the controversial realm of sponsored content...
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Yahoo Restructures Its Ad Services, Significantly Affecting Tumblr [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:Yahoo announced a revamped Yahoo Advertising at the Consumer Electronics Show yesterday. The new Yahoo Advertising will boost Tumblr Sponsored...
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That Giant Mystery Amazon Box That Went Viral This Week Was Real And It Had A...
A photo of a giant Amazon shipping box went viral Monday, but its contents remained a mystery.So what was inside? And was it even a real Amazon box?Amazon confirmed to tech news site Re/Code that it...
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How Some Brands Tried To Take Advantage Of The Miserably Cold Weather
The wave of intensely cold weather that hit most of the country this week and turned Chicago into "Chiberia" posed some challenges and opportunities for marketers.Airlines like Jet Blue were forced to...
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The 3 Most Important Changes Of The New York Times Redesign
The New York Times unveiled a redesigned website today, marking the first major shakeup to nytimes.com since 2006.Though none of the changes The Times made is any sort of revolution when it comes to...
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These Sexy Garbage Men Want To Stretch Out Your Trash Bags
Liquid-Plumr's "Double Impact" ads pushed the envelope with how much graphic sexual innuendo could make it into a television commercial. Apparently, the drain cleaner brand's appeal to housewives'...
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These Are The Most Talked About Fashion Brands Of 2013
Analytics firm MediaRadar combed through the top women's fashion magazines and tallied every editorial mention of a brand or a photo associated with it.That household names like Chanel, Louis Vuitton,...
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10 Predictions For How Shopping Will Completely Change In The Future
Retail is an incredibly dynamic industry. "We will see more disruption in the next ten years of retail than we did in the previous one thousand," said Doug Stephens, founder of industry website Retail...
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Erotic Film Festival Puts A Hilarious Spin On The 'Star Wars' And 'Lord Of...
Promoting an erotic film festival is an extremely difficult task. After all, it's not like you can just paper the town with posters of all the great movies you'll be showing.Instead, the Polish movie...
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A Brief Onstage Pause At CES Shows How Fierce The Rivalry Is Between Facebook...
A brief pause and an offhand joke between panels featuring Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and Facebook global marketing solutions VP Carolyn Everson at CES in Las Vegas this week gave a hint to just how...
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Report: Brands Will Favor Digital Ad Campaigns Over Sponsorships In 2014 [THE...
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:A new report from WPP-owned sponsorship, research, and consulting firm IEG suggests that corporations will be less interested in paying for...
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Why Burger King Gave Away Free Big Macs And Asked 'Sellouts' To Unlike Its...
For all the time brands spend begging social media users to like and share their latest topical jokes about the weather or the latest television show, marketers themselves are still figuring out how to...
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AT&T's Sponsored Data Plan May Change The Balance Of The Mobile Economy
The most memorable AT&T story from this week's CES technology conference might be when it kicked out T-Mobile's colorful CEO John Legere from its party. But an announcement from earlier in the week...
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4 Reasons Barnes & Noble's Nook Crashed And Burned
Barnes & Noble's Nook tablet was once seen as a viable competitor to Amazon's Kindle, but now it's basically irrelevant. Barnes & Noble announced Thursday that sales of Nook products plunged...
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FX's Animated Series 'Archer' Posted (Semi-) Nude Pics On Reddit
The media world was fascinated by the New York Times' first native ad yesterday, but the native campaign from the animated show "Archer" was livelier than a dry article from Dell. The show's network FX...
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Ford Exec Retracts Statements About Tracking Drivers With The GPS In Their...
Jim Farley, the global vp of marketing and sales at Ford, tells Business Insider he made a mistake when he implied that Ford gathers so much data from GPS units inside its customers' cars that the...
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The Guardian's Ad For Its New Weekend Edition Is Hilariously Absurd
In 2014, the announcement of a new print edition of anything is likely to be met with apathy, if not jeers. The British newspaper The Guardian seems to be aware, because its new commercial is...
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America's Biggest Food Companies Sold 6.7 Trillion Fewer Calories In 2012...
A new study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that America's 16 biggest food and beverage manufacturers sold 6.4 trillion fewer calories in 2007 than they did in 2012.That's 4 billion...
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This Startup Made Its Website Look Absolutely Terrible So It Could Find A New...
Right now, the homepage of Betabrand has all the elements of one of the worst websites you've ever seen: horrendous colors, a popup asking for your email (that swears its not for spam purposes), and...
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