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How To Lie, Cheat, And Manipulate Your Way To Social Media Dominance
Ryan Holiday is a media mastermind, at least the way he tells it.The college drop-out quit school at 19 but went on to become a PR advisor to Linkin Park and Tucker Max. He's best known as the main PR...
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ENDING SOON: Enter To Win A Kindle Fire From Business Insider
We're giving you a chance to win a Kindle Fire HD. Become a newsletter subscriber now to enter. If you're the lucky winner you will have a host of features at your fingertips. Entry deadline is May...
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JCPenney Is Stealthily Unveiling A Brand New Logo
At the beginning of Ron Johnson's short-lived but infamous reign as JCPenney CEO in January 2012, he unveiled a logo that completely rebranded the company as JCP.It was its third in as many...
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Here's How An 8-Year-Old David Foster Wallace Speech Suddenly Became A Viral...
Last week, in the midst of commencement season, small L.A. video production company The Glossary released a five-minute cinematic interpretation of David Foster Wallace's philosophically resonant 2005...
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AD OF THE DAY: Old Spice Makes Its Weirdest Ad Yet
Terry Crews, our favorite shouting shirtless Old Spice guy, is back in a new series of Wieden + Kennedy ads for Old Spice shaving gel.Muscles popping, Crews is simply crazy about how NEW Old Spice...
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The 15 Most Shameless Movie Product Placements Of All Time
What is most memorable about Baz Luhrman's movie adaptation of The Great Gatsby?The lavish parties? The silk shirt scene? Or is it the multitude of product placements that pervade the film from...
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Vine Will Now Host Brand New 'Peanuts' Stop Motion Comics [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:Pretty soon, Vine will be used as a platform for 12 "Peanuts" stop motion, 6-second comics. Khoa Phan's Vine animations got the attention of...
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Target Poster From The '60s Looks Strikingly Similar To Mad Men Season 6 Ad
Illustrator Brian Sanders' hand-drawn, vintage-style poster for the "Mad Men" season 6 premiere drove fans wild with its hidden plot clues.It drove Target historian — yes, that's a real thing — Tony...
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Sorry, Everyone! The $2,000 Gwyneth Paltrow Groupon Is Sold Out
If you want to spend $2,000 to take a cooking class taught by Gwyneth Paltrow, it's too late. Sixty people already bought her Groupon package, which features a night in a hotel, a trip to a spa and...
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Here's Burlesque Star Dita Von Teese's Super-Classy eBay Ad For Her Vintage Car
Burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese is selling her blue 1939 Packard 120 sedan on eBay.And what better way to up interest in an auction than to add some seductive pictures taken in said car?Sure the car...
View ArticleMan Gives Abercrombie Clothes To Homeless People As Revenge For CEO's 'Cool...
Greg Karber was bothered by our story about Abercrombie refusing to make clothes for large women since CEO Michael Jeffries apparently doesn't consider that group to be part of the "cool kids."So...
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How Bad Is TV Right Now? Univision Routinely Gets More Viewers Than NBC
There has been one huge takeaway from the TV networks' "upfront" events this week, where the broadcast channels tout their shows and audiences for advertisers: Univision now routinely gets more viewers...
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The State of Social Media Advertising, And Where It's Headed
The media constellation has become increasingly fractured. The Web produced the initial fissure, but mobile created new cracks in the landscape. Today, no single medium earns more than 45% of our media...
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Former Victoria's Secret Model Reveals Why She Gave Up Lingerie Modeling For...
Former Victoria's Secret model Kylie Bisutti just released a book about leaving the brand because of her Christian beliefs.Bisutti told The Daily Beast about the incidents that spurred her leaving....
View ArticleRussell Westbrook Shot This Inspiring Ad Exactly 2 Weeks Before His Season...
Exactly two weeks before Oklahoma City Thunder star Russell Westbrook suffered a season-ending meniscus tear, he shot footage for this inspiring ad for Champs Sports and Jordan.Even though he had to...
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Volkswagen's New Safety Ad Will Make You Jump
Volkswagen brought back its bad car crash safety campaign in a brand new spot called "Lucky Man" by Deutsch LA.The campaign historically focuses on the human side of car accidents, providing viewers...
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A&W Is Paying To Put Mini Ads In Men's Beards
A Kentucky-based ad agency came up with a high-concept platform that will take native advertising to the next level, putting ads in untapped real estate that consumers interact with every day: beards....
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FAIL: Cruise Line Ad Appears Next To USA Today Story On Couple Dying In Fall...
Last week USA Today posted a story with the headline: "Woman jumped from ship, boyfriend followed." Oblivious to the content, an ad singing the praises of Norwegian Cruise Lines has been served...
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24-Year-Old Ogilvy Employee Dies From 'Overwork'
Yesterday 24-year-old ad man Li Yuan died of a sudden heart attack at the office.According to local TV news program Yangzi Evening News, the Ogilvy & Mather Beijing employee died of "overwork." He...
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Dos Equis Paid Comedian Michael Ian Black For A Tweet, Chaos Ensued
Earlier this week, comedian Michael Ian Black tweeted a dry message about a Dos Equis "Most Interesting Man in the World" app to his 1.9 million fans.When followers noted that this seemed like a paid...
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