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Kellogg's Pays $4 Million Settlement After Claiming Frosted Mini Wheats Make...
NEW YORK (AP) — Kellogg has agreed to pay $4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over the marketing claims it made for Frosted Mini-Wheats.The company, which also makes Frosted Flakes, Eggo...
View ArticleHow Advertisers Can Survive As Americans Ditch Traditional TV
Television is going through a complete transformation—or several transformations at once. As viewers move beyond traditional broadcast models to consume media in new ways, marketers are scrambling to...
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McDONALD's CEO: 'We Don't Sell Junk Food'
McDonald's CEO Don Thompson recently denied that the fast-food chain sells junk food.At the company's annual shareholders meeting last week, a 9-year-old girl named Hannah asked Thompson why he didn't...
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See The 'Jewish Baby Bibs' Everyone Is Complaining About Before Amazon Takes...
An Amazon seller is advertising "Jewish baby bibs" that rely on stereotypes of Jews in a possible violation of the company's policy prohibiting products that "glorify hatred, violence, racial, sexual...
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What Mary Meeker Says About The State Of Advertising On The Web
Kleiner Perkins partner and former analyst Mary Meeker just released her in-depth look at the state of the web. This year, she devoted a huge chunk of her 100-page-plus slide deck to advertising, media...
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PBS Bets You Can't Tell If These Reality Shows Are Real Or Fake
If you can't beat them, mock them.Apparently that's the theory behind the new advertising campaign for WNET, the PBS station that broadcasts on channel 13 in New York, that launched this week.Posters...
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Young Mothers Are Denouncing This Pregnancy Prevention Campaign For Shaming...
In honor of National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month, The Candie's Foundation launched a celebrity-endorsed anti-teen Pregnancy campaign that is now getting harsh criticism for "shaming" young...
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There Was A Lovely Ad Campaign Designed To Fight Mississippi's Reputation As...
Earlier today we posted "The 7 States That The Rest Of America Would Like To Kick Out Of the Country," based on a Reddit thread that tried to find which states the country could most easily part with....
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A Bird Fungus Nearly Killed This Dallas Ad Woman So She Made A Campaign To...
Ever heard of Histoplasmosis?Neither had Publicis creative director Julia Melle when the disease almost killed her several years ago.That is why she and her colleagues at Publicis's Dallas office...
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The Incredible Story Of This Woman's Meteoric Rise From Receptionist To CEO
When Karen Kaplan, 53, first walked through the doors of Hill Holliday in 1982, she had no advertising experience, or even the shorthand skills to work as a secretary. The 22-year-old was placed at the...
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How Marketers Can Take Advantage Of Facebook's Graph Search (FB)
Facebook launched Graph Search earlier this year, to add a new "social" layer to the way people seek out information.Graph Search allows people to get answers to questions like, what are my friends'...
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BuzzFeed Has Advised The New York Times On Creation Of Sponsored Content [THE...
Good morning AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:BuzzFeed has advised the New York Times on how to create sponsored content. "Outside executives such as BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti were brought...
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Analyst Upgrades Facebook To 'Buy' On Word Of Video Ad Launch In July (FB)
Video ads could become the next billion-dollar business for Facebook, according to Jefferies & Co., which upped its rating on the stock Thursday.A recent decline in share price creates a buying...
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JCPenney's 'Hitler' Tea Kettle Is Completely Sold Out
When Reddit users pointed out that a JC Penney billboard featured a tea kettle that resembled Adolf Hitler, the thought was that trouble was again brewing for the oft-bumbling retail giant."Came here...
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Twitter Is Launching An Ad Exchange
Twitter will launch an ad exchange in which buyers will be able to "retarget" users with ads, according to Ad Age.The company will do so after taking advice from Facebook's FBX ad exchange partners. An...
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BI INTELLIGENCE: Here's Our Forecast For Google Glass [SLIDE DECK]
We at BI Intelligence have put together a comprehensive research report that forecasts the future market for Google Glass. We expect that Google Glass will go mainstream within a few years, as the...
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Beyoncé Outraged That H&M Intended To Photoshop Her Bootyliciousness
When Beyoncé heard that H&M's art department were planning to retouch images of her modeling the brand's beachwear collection, she was absolutely furious.Upon hearing that H&M intended to slim...
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Pinterest Will Test Advertisers' Tolerance By Allowing Artistic Nudity
Pinterest will test advertisers' tolerance for sexy content when it changes its acceptable content user policy to allow artistic nudes.The online pinboard service currently obliges members "not to post...
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LAST CHANCE: 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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The Hunk From The Diet Dr. Pepper Ad Is Attracting A Surprising Demographic
Underwear model Josh Button was hired by Diet Dr. Pepper to attract women to the brand. In the now-viral ad, a shirtless Button launches into a monologue about why he is one of a kind. "Millions of...
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