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The Naked Cowboy Will Tattoo Himself To Transform Into A Human Billboard
The Naked Cowboy — the famous Times Square performer who plays guitar in his underwear and marries off couples for $499 a pop — has a new money-making tactic: He's going to become Wow Body Ads' first...
View ArticleCheck Out These Hilarious Old Apple Christmas Ads Featuring Will Ferrell (AAPL)
Apple always has great ads. Before the iPhone launched the company into ubiquity, it simply wanted people to switch to the Mac. And it got a lot of celebrities to help out.Take a look at these ads we...
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The Best Of Everything In 2012
We're almost at the end of the year 2012, and what a year it's been.Facebook finally went public, private spacecraft entered outer space, and humans broke the sound barrier without the aid of machines...
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Here Are Santa's Most Scandalous Ads: From Cigarettes To Booze
Santa Claus has starred in many ad campaigns — and some of them would move him onto the naughty list.While St. Nick is most famous for Coca-Cola commercials, advertisers have also put his face in ads...
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Macy's Is Absolutely Flooded On Christmas Eve
It's Christmas Eve and a whole lot of people haven't finished their shopping yet.I'm one of them, so I headed down to Macy's Herald Square flagship to get what I needed. The place was totally stuffed...
View ArticleAD OF THE DAY: This Rube Goldberg-esque Holiday Card Took 900 Hours To Make
We were blown away by Solve Media's holiday card this year.The card, which comes to us in the form of a video, starts out with someone writing the message "To All Humans" on an envelope. A Rube...
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Magazine Publishers Believe These 10 Celebs Sold The Most Ad Pages In 2012
Fall magazine issues tend to be the biggest and most important of the year — fat with ad pages. Magazine publishers thus try to get the hottest celebrity possible to grace their fall...
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How Gun Sellers Use Video Games To Promote Their Brands
Electronic Arts, the maker of the popular Medal of Honor video game series, had a promotional deal with the McMillan Group (which makes sniper rifles), and Magpul (which sells accessories for assault...
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Vintners Are Wooing Millennials With Boxed Wine [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:In an effort to woo millennials, vintners are starting to sell more wine out of boxes rather than bottles. According to the NY Times, those...
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Who Knew General Electric Made All These Cool GIFs? (GE)
General Electric is currently running a campaign (by BBDO) titled "brilliant machines," which celebrates the robots it helps make.But did you know that GE is quietly mastering the world of memes and...
View ArticleZumba Just Released This Ridiculous Music Video
Zumba, the Latin Dance exercise that's been sweeping the nation, transitioned from selling its product through infomercials into a $500-million phenomenon that now releases colorful, slightly...
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The New Black Friday Strategy Backfired On America's Retailers
This year's holiday retail numbers are uglier than anticipated. Growth came in at 0.7 percent— the weakest since 2008.The strategies that retailers used over the holidays didn't convince enough...
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Did You Notice These Famous Logos Majorly Changed In 2012?
Some of the biggest brands in the country ditched their old logos for new ones this year.Microsoft ditched its logo after 25 years, and Wendy's changed up its girl with the pigtails for the first time...
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Here's How Rabbis And Priests Are Fighting Extreme Anti-Muslim Ads
Christian, Jewish, and Muslim leaders gathered in Colorado on Monday to launch an official counter movement against the recent trend of plastering extreme Islamaphobic ads — calling Muslims "savages"...
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Latest News Corp. Hacking Suit Alleges Execs Used Al Capone As A Role Model
Although News Corp.'s latest hacking scandal doesn't involve breaking into the voicemails of deceased school girls or 9/11 victims' relatives, it does allege the corporation used hacking to gain a...
View ArticleAD OF THE DAY: The 12 Days Of Holiday Leftovers
What if your leftovers could sing?Outback released a holiday commercial that answers this very question. Apparently, if your holiday leftovers could speak, they'd sing a revised version of the "12 Days...
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Good And Bad News For Toyota [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:Toyota might become the world's biggest car maker of 2012 due to high demand from overseas. It has had its largest sales figures since 2000. In...
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Here's Who Won The Women's Magazine Ad Sales War In 2012
Despite ad pages being down in consumer magazines this year, women's fashion magazines had a great year. According to MagazineRadar, ad pages for this niche were up 6.5 percent from last year, compared...
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An In-Depth Look At The Most Impressive People of 2012
Felix BaumgartnerChris ChristieHillary ClintonR.A. DickeyGabrielle DouglasMario DraghiLena DunhamTony HsiehLeBron JamesJoe LhotaMars Curiosity RoverMarissa MayerJim MessinaElon MuskPussy RiotJohn...
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Showing Pictures Of 'Starving' People In Africa Has Stopped Working For...
The negative portrayal of Africa in the eyes of the British public is undermining efforts to bring an end to hunger on the continent, Oxfam has said.The aid agency said that three-fifths of people...
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