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Here's What Furious Sellers Are Saying About Amazon's New Fees (AMZN)
Amazon, the most publicly respected corporation in the U.S., is generating some hate mail.The e-commerce giant has been hiking fees for its third-party sellers over the past year-and-a-half, according...
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BuzzFeed's Native Ads Are Coming To Other Websites [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:BuzzFeed partnered with eight other publishers, including Thought Catalog and the Hairpin, to bring its clickable native ad content to other...
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Now Hiring: MBA Internship In Social Media Analytics At Business Insider
Learn about how social media impacts the media business in Business Insider’s internship program. We’re the fastest growing business news site on the web, and social media has been an integral part of...
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L'Oreal Pulled All These Ads Because They Used Too Much Photoshop
L'Oreal has "permanently discontinued" a set of ads for a bunch of its mascara brands because they used an excessive amount of Photoshop editing to exaggerate the effects of their products, according...
View ArticleThe Science Behind What Makes Something Go Viral
What's the secret formula behind why the Harlem Shake and Gangnam Style went viral? How do you land a spot on the New York Times' "Most-Emailed" articles list?Wharton Marketing Professor Jonah Berger...
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These Scary Cigarette Labels Won't Be Seen Because They Violate Big Tobacco's...
American smokers will be spared these disgusting images on their cigarette packaging ... for now.The U.S. Justice Department has decided that it will not ask the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court...
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Half Of What Advertisers Think They Know About You Is Wrong
Considering that they’ve never explicitly asked us about our preferences, it’s a minor miracle of big data that web advertising companies know anything about us at all.But at least half of the things...
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Female Ad Execs Earn Thousands Less Than Their Male Colleagues, These Data Show
Female ad sales execs make tens of thousands of dollars less per year than their male counterparts, according to a survey by SellerCrowd, a professional networking site for media sales...
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LAST CHANCE: Hear All The Mobile Gurus At IGNITION Mobile
There are still a few seats left at Business Insider's IGNITION Mobile conference tomorrow in San Francisco. If you work in or around mobile, you'll want to be there.We've assembled the people who...
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Here's How The Adman Who Charges $1,000 A Tweet Justifies His Fee
On Tuesday we told you about the World's Fastest Agency (WFA) — a new ad shop that asks clients to wire it $999, direct message it's branding problem on Twitter, and then wait 24 hours for a...
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How Facebook Gets You To Buy Products Even If You Never Click On Ads (FB)
A lot of people don't click on Facebook ads.So Slate's Farhad Manjoo recently posed and answered the following question: How does Facebook expect to become a big business if some people avoid ads like...
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Lululemon Puns Are Completely Out Of Control (LULU)
Stop it! Everyone stop it right now!Lululemon puns are totally out of control.For those still unfamiliar with what happened with the apparel retailer, Lululemon has pulled from its shelves a large...
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Business Insider Is Hiring A Marketing Designer
We are looking for an experienced Marketing Production Designer to assist in the day-to-day production of marketing and promotional materials for Business Insider, including BI Intelligence and BI...
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Pepsi's Most Successful Viral Video Ever Is Completely Fake
Last week Pepsi released what is already the 14th most-shared branded video of all time.The spot shows NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon putting on everyman makeup and facial hair, going to a used car...
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Axe Body Spray Sent A High School Freshman To The Hospital
Axe, the body spray that's perennially popular among teenage guys, is being banned from a Pennsylvania high school after a freshman had a severe allergic reaction to it and wound up in the...
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15 Hot Brands Vying To Be The Next Lululemon
Lululemon's sheer yoga pants blunder could have blown the door wide open for competition. The brand is facing a "tsunami of competition," according to John Zoldis, senior vice president at Buckingham...
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Svedka Is Giving Its Sexy Robot The Axe
Svedka's sexually confusing robot "spokeswoman"— famous for ridiculous tag lines like "make your next trophy wife 100% titanium"— is losing her starring role as the vodka company's marketing...
View ArticleAD OF THE DAY: PepsiCo Doubles Down On The Psychotic Goat Meme (PEP)
An oddly hilarious new Mountain Dew commercial is the second this year from PepsiCo to feature a homicidal goat (the first was Doritos' Superbowl spot, "Goat 4 Sale").The video features Felicia The...
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15 Awesome Free Office Spaces For Freelancers, From Singapore To Brazil
London-based web site Open Studio Club has created a sort of Couchsurfing.org for creative freelancers: Ad and design agencies with a vacant desk can offer their workspace free of charge on the Free...
View ArticleJon Favreau And Diplo Take Us On A Wild Ride In Doritos' New Ad [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, Adland. Here's what you need to know today:When it comes to Doritos ads, we're mostly used to consumers creating the content for the company's "Crash the Super Bowl" contest. But now the...
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