How These Incredible Diving Dogs Went From Obscurity To Worldwide Fame And...
You've probably seen photographer Seth Casteel's photos of dogs diving under water. They charmed everyone when they went viral in February. But there's more to the story than just a bunch of random...
View ArticleHUGE FACEBOOK ADVERTISER: The Skeptics Are Dopes -- It Will Be Worth More...
The head of the vast global marketing firm Havas thinks that investors just don't get it with respect to Facebook. Specifically, he thinks Facebook will be worth more than Google. Why? Because...
View ArticleAmazing Photos From 1947 Of The Ad Agency That Coined The Phrase 'Coffee Break'
The Federal Advertising Agency was not, as its name suggests, a government regulatory body. It was actually a working advertising agency located at the old Manhattan Savings Building, at 385 Madison...
View ArticleThis Man Thinks He's Spotted The Crucial Weakness In Google's Mobile Ad Strategy
Here's Google's big strategic problem in mobile advertising, according to Zephrin Lasker, CEO of Pontiflex, the mobile lead generation company: The search giant is treating the mobile ad market the...
View ArticleDATA: Pinterest Now Bigger Than Google+ And Tumblr For Brands
Pinterest sharing is now greater than Google+ and Tumblr according to new data from social bookmarking service AddThis. The data dovetails with earlier reports that marketers were giving up on Google+...
View ArticleUNBALANCED: Facebook Captures 14 Percent Of Our Online Attention But Only 4...
This is a guest post by Ben Elowitz (@elowitz). Elowitz is the co-founder and CEO of next-generation media company Wetpaint, and the author of the Digital Quarters blog about the future of digital...
View ArticleFacebook, Twitter, Pinterest, And Social Media Marketing: Three Trends
Yesterday Orbitz CEO Barney Harford defended his company's targeted pricing -- offering Mac users more expensive hotel options than those offered to PC users -- by using Twitter to send out a...
View ArticleSTUDY: Seeing Red Makes People Bid More Money In Online Auctions
We already knew you could tell a lot about homeowners by what color they painted their front door, but now a new study suggests that seeing red makes people more aggressive—and more likely to offer...
View ArticleThis Video Gives You A Terrifying Glimpse Into What Being Tortured Is Like
This new short movie, directed by Camille Herren for Amnesty International's Security With Human Rights Campaign, is designed to help you understand what being tortured is like. It's well worth a...
View ArticleQUIZ: What Are These Ads Trying To Sell?
Any marketer will tell you: advertising is wasted if it isn't on-message, on-brand, all the time. Yet if not for a tiny brand decal on the bottom right-hand corner of many ads, consumers would never...
View ArticleYahoo! Has Partnered With Spotify—Here's Today's Ad Brief
Yahoo and Spotify have announced a global content distribution/promotion agreement. According to the press release, this will "enable Yahoo! to integrate and promote Spotify’s on demand music service...
View ArticleQ&A: Pandora's Brian Colbert Tells Us How He Booked $100 Million In Mobile Ad...
Brian Colbert is the vp of mobile advertising sales at Pandora. He spoke to us recently about the massive growth in mobile ad revenue the company is seeing—$100 million last year—and how Pandora is...
View ArticleNationwide Ad Campaign Says 'Hipsters Deserve To Die'
Posters are being ripped off buildings in the streets of Chicago for a nation-wide advertising campaign that declares many people—from hipsters to crazy old aunts—"deserve to die." "I think that's...
View Article54 Smart Thinkers Everyone Should Follow On Twitter
Today everyone is getting their news and information from Twitter. At Business Insider, it's how we get a lot of our story ideas. But figuring out exactly who to follow is a tough task. So we've put...
View ArticleThe 25 Best Companies To Work For In 2012
There's a lot of hype out there about the best tech places to work for — Google, Apple and Facebook are well-known dream work places. But what about the lesser-known companies with smart, driven...
View ArticleZappos' Social Media Guru Just Revealed Facebook's Hidden Ad Secret (FB)
Nate Lurman is the Facebook marketing lead at Zappos, the online retailer famed for going to extremes for its customers. He just explained to Digiday the one thing that everyone—especially General...
View ArticleAMAZING! Here Is Every Product Billy Mays Ever Pitched
Billy Mays, America’s favorite infomercial star, died three years ago today. He began his career selling the WashMatik, a car-washing brush that siphoned water through the bristles without...
View ArticleMary J. Blige Describes Shame Of Her 'Racist' Burger King Ad
For the second time since controversy erupted regarding her appearance in a Burger King ad, Mary J. Blige opened up about the ad and the reactions to the short-lived YouTube video. Blige told Hot 97's...
View ArticleThese Are The 20 Best Advertising Internships In The U.S. Ranked By Interns
There's a new set of internship rankings for Mad Men in training who are scouring America for the perfect first-advertising gig. Internship King, a year-old website, has collected the top advertising...
View ArticleCNN Will Hate Obama's 'Dewey Defeats Truman' iPad Photoshop Moment
Everyone knows the famous photo of the Chicago Tribune's front page declaring, in error, "Dewey Defeats Truman" in 1948. (The newspaper fell victim to its early deadlines and made a guess at the...
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