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What The World's Most Famous Logos Might Look Like In 50 Years
From top universities to major retailers, most big-name organizations go through major shifts in their identities and, more noticeably, their logos.Recent trends include shortening words to letters...
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The Onion Just Launched A Marvelous Business News Section
Fresh from the success of convincing China's biggest newspaper that Kim Jong Un was, in fact, "the sexiest man alive,"The Onion has started a new business news section.Best of all, the section is led...
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Here's The Trick Consumer Reports Plays On Unsuspecting Visitors At Its HQ
People are easily fooled, and that's something that consumer advocacy magazine Consumer Reports has always looked to help remedy.In a recent post referring to folks being duped by a fake taste test on...
View ArticleLivingSocial Is Expected To Lay Off 400 Workers Today
There is trouble in the daily-deal world.LivingSocial is planning to lay off 400 of its U.S. workers tomorrow, reports the Washington Business Journal.The layoffs come at a time when the entire...
View ArticleAD OF THE DAY: Corner Deli Bursts Into Song And Dance When Someone Picks Red...
To reward customers for their beer choices, Red Stripe pulled a stunt in which ordinary items at an East London bodega were rigged to break out into song and dance whenever someone picked a Red...
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Here's The 'Sexy' Father-Daughter eBay Ad For A '77 Datsun That's Making...
People have been using come-hither photos to sell their stuff on eBay for years now. At first glance, Kim Ridley's pics of model Lexxa, 20, standing legs splayed -- with the car on view in the distance...
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The Massive Growth Of Facebook Ads Got This Startup $7 Million In Funding
Triggit, the so-called "demand-side platform" that buys ads in real-time bidding exchanges for about 200 clients, won $7.4 million in series B funding from Spark Capital and Foundry Group, the company...
View ArticleThis Is The Creepiest Air Conditioner Ad Ever [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:Well, Del Campo Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi officially made the creepiest ad ever, and it happens to be for Argentina's BGH air conditioners....
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A Breakdown Of The Top Retailers On Facebook, Twitter And Pinterest — By The...
Only 51 brands have more than 1 million Facebook fans.On Twitter and Pinterest, only three brands have that many followers.There are four on Google+.Through Q3 2012, therefore, Facebook remained the...
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Forget What Macy's Marketing Chief Just Said: Data Show Trump IS Hurting The...
On Tuesday, Macy's CMO Martine Reardon said the reason the store will not drop licensor Donald Trump, despite his bizarre allegations that President Obama might not be American, is because Macy's...
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14 Executives Demonstrate The Art Of The 'Power Pose'
Harvard Professor Amy Cuddy's research focuses on how our body language changes how we feel and act, and the way others perceive us. She's made some pretty startling discoveries. By holding an open,...
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CONFIRMED: LivingSocial Is Laying Off 400 Workers Today
Yesterday we got wind of possible LivingSocial layoffs and today we can confirm that the news is true.LivingSocial is firing 400 employees today, reports CNNMoney, which is about 9% of its global...
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Dunkin' Donuts Actually Tried To Trademark The Phrase 'Best Coffee In America'
Earlier this month, Dunkin' Donuts tried to trademark the phrase "Best Coffee in America."After the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office stopped laughing, it rejected the application in a 55-page...
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A Veteran Mad Man Tries To Figure Out The Point Of Big Data In Advertising
I have to confess, “Big Data” confuses me. I mean, I was barely beginning to grasp something called “Datametrics” when along came this much larger and more grandiose sounding thing everyone was talking...
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These Are The 10 Most Innovative Tablet Campaigns We've Ever Seen
As tablets become more integrated into everyday life, advertisers are scrambling to find the best way to move their creative content onto the screen.In fact, the tablet adspend is expected to crush...
View ArticleAD OF THE DAY: Photographers Almost Kill Themselves Just To Get That Shot
Camera commercials tend to all follow the same story: show how easy it is to use a camera and how well the pictures turn out. Canon's latest commercial does something different — it shows how hard...
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YES, IT'S A CRISIS: 1,000 Jobs Gone At Groupon And LivingSocial; Can The...
The daily deal world is in turmoil. LivingSocial just announced the firing of 400 employees, which is about 8.9% of its total workforce.What's more unnerving is that over the past six months, Groupon...
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Here's The FCC Ruling That Lets Marketers Text You More [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:The FCC just ruled that marketers can now send confirmation text messages that a consumer's opt-out request has been received. Barclays paid...
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Microsoft Takes On Trolls In IE10 Ad Targeting Haters
Microsoft has dropped another of its "Browser you loved to hate" commercials, in which the company admits -- and confronts -- the fact that a lot of people just don't like Internet Explorer.And it's...
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These Are The 10 Most Shared Brands On Facebook Right Now
In honor of the holiday "season for sharing,"Track Social decided to take a peek at the most shared brand pages on Facebook over the last 45 days.Track Social is an analytic firm that monitors 10,000...
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