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All The M&M's Are Posing In The Nude On Facebook Right Now
It's either hilarious or horrifying, depending on your point of view. But all the M&M's characters are currently posing in their (chocolate) birthday suits on Facebook right now.M&M's ad agency...
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READER: Here's Why The Strange New Rolls-Royce Ad Is Not Misogynistic
Last week's debut of the Rolls-Royce Wraith at the Geneva Motor Show was accompanied by a promo video we found a bit odd and somewhat misogynistic.The video shows a man driving the Wraith through a...
View ArticleGoogle Now For iPhone and iPad May Be Coming Sooner Than We Thought (GOOG, AAPL)
A very Google-like ad showing off the search giant's Google Now service for iPhone and iPad appeared online today, but was promptly pulled, reports Engadget.Google Now uses a variety of information...
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Our Ridiculous Nanny-State Government Now Says Tweets Have To Include 'The...
In case you thought that you had grown up enough that you don't have to be treated like a three-year old anymore, we have depressing news for you:Your government thinks you haven't.The clucking nannies...
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The Battle Between The Web And Mobile Is Ending — Oh, And Mobile Won
The New York Times is testing out a new website design that's heavily inspired by mobile apps.Where have we heard that before? Oh yes — a continent away, at Facebook headquarters last week, where CEO...
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General Motors Is Poised To Fire Its Ad Agency [THE BRIEF]
McCann CEO Harris Diamond cancelled his schedule at the 4A's conference to meet with General Motors instead, Adweek reports, as the automaker prepares to fire Goodby, Silverstein & Partners from...
View ArticleJeff Gordon Puts On A Disguise, Takes Innocent Car Salesman On A Suicidal...
Donning glasses and a fake goatee, world famous NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon pranks a car salesman into taking a test drive with him in a 2009 Chevy Camaro. "I don't know if I can handle it," said a...
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Head Of World's Largest Ad Buyer Says Not Everything His Agency Does Should...
Irwin Gotlieb, the global chairman of GroupM, the world's largest media buyer, told a conference this week that agency trading desks — the digital platforms that buy online ads — need not be completely...
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Hooters Campaign To Persuade Women To Like It More Is Working (Kinda)
New data from YouGov BrandIndex shows Hooters' appeal among women is on the rise.The news comes after Hooters' launched a campaign to be less offensive to women, and to make the wives and girlfriends...
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LinkedIn Tells All: How Businesses Engage Users And Build A Following
Businesses have started burnishing their identities by creating their own content on LinkedIn. The professional network hit its 200 million member milestone recently, and companies naturally want a...
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A Friend Calls at 3AM, Needing $400 For A Gambling Debt To Some Thugs. Do You...
Carlsberg hired Duval Guillaume Modem — the Belgian agency famed for its elaborate public hoaxes — to create this new ad, which puts a group of best friends to the test when one of them calls late at...
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An Interview With The Man Who Is Trying To Bring Big, Native Ads To Mobile
Mobile advertising has an image problem: Its many critics say the industry is addicted to ugly banner ads that annoy consumers. A new crop of companies that we lumped together as "the natives" in our...
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Now Facebook Is Revamping Its Profile Pages, Too (FB)
Facebook is changing the look of its profile pages—the design it calls Timeline.When Facebook introduced Timeline in 2011, the two-column layout was a major visual change from the previous look.Now...
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Samsung's Advertising For The Galaxy S4 Has Been Weirdly — Deliberately? —...
When Samsung unveils its new Galaxy S4 phone on March 14 it will be one of the biggest product launches of the year — in any category, not just tech.So why has the company preceded this huge launch...
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Facebook Built A $300 Million Mobile Business — Find Out How At IGNITION Mobile
A little over a year ago, Facebook's mobile ad business barely existed. But in January 2013, CEO Mark Zuckerberg described Facebook as a "mobile company" and announced that its mobile ad business...
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Extreme Anti-Islam Ads Are Now Running On San Francisco's Buses
Anti-Islam ads appeared on 10 public buses in San Francisco on Monday, showing "inflammatory quotes by Islamic fundamentalists" accompanied by "an anonymous terrorist,"according to Transportation...
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This Is The Future Of Aeropostale (ARO)
Teen retailer Aeropostale is focusing on one thing to get back its hold in the millennial market: technology. The company is shedding its formerly logo-heavy brand and working to boost sales through...
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Here's The FTC's Solution For Twitter Advertisers Who Can't Fit Legal...
The FTC has a solution for Twitter advertisers who have been freaking out at the idea of trying to squish legal disclaimers into tweets. Just use "Ad:" at the beginning of a tweet.Twitter launched a...
View ArticleSims 3 University Life Trailer Borrows A Bunch Of Memes
Here's the new ad for Sims 3 University Life. It's packed with the kind of offbeat and occasionally raunchy humor we've come to expect from the Sims franchise and its past ads.But this one uses some...
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Ford Says It's The No.1 Auto Brand — Even Though It's Actually No.2 (F)
Since December, Ford has officially claimed to be the best-selling brand in the U.S., with more than 2 million vehicles sold in 2012, the second straight year Ford went above that mark.Those claims are...
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