Tostitos Promises To Rid Your Party Of Boring Guests — Like Grandma [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:Tostitos has two new commercials from Goodby Silverstein & Partners promoting its Southwest-inspired fajita scoop tortilla chips and queso...
View ArticleWarby Parker's Interactive Annual Report Is Basically An Intricate, Shareable Ad
Hip eyeglasses company Warby Parker's 2013 annual report is anything but conventional. It's a shareable page of organized chaos inspired by internet culture.The diagrams and charts don't illustrate...
View ArticlePerception Of Target's Brand Has Crashed Since Its Customer Data Breach
Last month, Target announced that millions of shoppers' data was accessed by hackers. The company said today that sales have been hurt by the breach, which is one of the biggest in history. As many as...
View ArticleHere's Why Native Ads On Pinterest, Instagram, And Snapchat Could Be Huge...
Native-social ads — ads which are integrated into the social stream — are proving to be incredibly effective, getting tremendous clicks and shares. Soon, native advertising could account for more than...
View ArticleThis Ad Imagines A World Where Guide Dogs Are Replaced With Ducks, Sheep, And...
Guide dogs can make navigating for blind people significantly easier, but they also open up their owners to discrimination.After all, a taxi driver may not want a dog in his cab, or a restaurant...
View ArticleHere's The Miller Lite Commercial Featuring The Real Wolf Of Wall Street's...
Before "Duchess of Ray Ridge" Nadine Caridi became real "Wolf of Wall Street" Jordan Belfort's second wife, the future Mrs. Belfort was a model who appeared in several Miller Lite ads.Nadine, who is...
View ArticleBud And Bud Light Are In Freefall — And Now Their Parent Company Is Making A...
The rise of craft beer and hard liquor in America has taken a bite out of sales for the world's biggest brewers, and one that has been hit hard is Anheuser-Busch InBev, the Belgian-Brazilian company...
View ArticleThe 15 Worst Corporate Logo Fails
A few weeks ago, Business Insider counted down the 10 worst logo changes of 2013.There was Yahoo's disappointingly minor change following a month's work of prospective new designs, and the bizarre,...
View Article7 Junk Food Brands With Awkwardly Unconvincing Athlete Endorsements
Some of the greatest athletes in the world endorse some of the unhealthiest foods in the world. And a recent study shows that these celebrity athlete-endorsed ads may be more prevalent than you...
View ArticleApple Has A New, Super Serious Ad For The iPad (AAPL)
During this afternoon's football game, Apple debuted a new iPad ads.The ad has an excerpt of Robin Williams from Dead Poets Society talking about poetry, and life. Here, via Re/Code is the transcript...
View ArticleThe New Muppets Movie Won The Golden Globes With This Incredible Ad [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:There were many winners and losers at last night's Golden Globes award ceremony, but nobody triumphed quite like the upcoming Muppets Most...
View ArticleYou'll Love This Guinness Ad Telling People To Put Down Their Phones
When you go out to a restaurant or bar, you probably notice lots of people are eating or drinking with their phones out on the table in plain view. There have even been studies on how checking cell...
View ArticleAmazon Was The Best Perceived Brand Of 2013, And No Other Tech Company Even...
According to more than one million interviews conducted by YouGov Brand Index, Amazon was the most highly regarded brand in the United States last year.Google, which came in at No. 10 in 2012 and No. 4...
View ArticleHow Real-Time Data Is Changing The Way Marketers Understand Consumers
This post is sponsored by eXelate.For the last 50 to 70 years, the market research industry has been focused on the same surveys and panels. (Think of those prototypical focus groups, sitting in a...
View ArticleBen Kingsley Stars In A New Teaser For Jaguar's Villainous Super Bowl Ad
The British car manufacturer Jaguar's first ever Super Bowl ad will feature U.K. actor Ben Kingsley, according to a new teaser video released Saturday.Jaguar's campaign leading up to the Super Bowl has...
View ArticleFacebook's Demographics Show Why No Other Social Network Can Match Its...
Who's on Facebook? The short answer, of course, is everyone. And that's why every company and brand needs to seriously consider a major presence on the platform, as well as a Facebook-specific content...
View ArticleBlack & Decker Is Trying To Change Its Image
It appears that Black & Decker is now Black+Decker.The power tool and hardware manufacturer announced a global rebranding Monday that will result in a simpler, new logo that exchanges its ampersand...
View ArticleYikes! The New Xbox One Ad Shows Some Scary Hallucinations (MSFT)
You know your video game is good when you start hallucinating. That's the scary premise of the latest ad for Microsoft's new video game console, the Xbox One.The ad made us jump more than once when we...
View ArticleLaurence Fishburne Will Return As Morpheus In Kia's 'Matrix'-Themed Super...
Laurence Fishburne's Morpheus character from the sci-fi classic "The Matrix" is unforgettable. His shaved head, pince-nez, gator skin trench coat, and calm way of speaking made him like a futuristic...
View ArticleThis Is What H&M Considers To Be 'Plus-Size'
H&M is under fire after using thin models for the plus-sized section of a catalog. The fast-fashion retailer insists that all models featured in the plus-size section are at least a U.S. size 14,...
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