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Circa Is Trying To Fundamentally Change How We Read The News
In a world full of news readers like Flipboard, Google Currents, Pulse, and Prismatic, is there really any more room on your home screen for another one? Circa believes there is—and not just because...
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These Motorcycles Are Made Out Of Humans And Body Paint
The Progressive International Motorcycle Shows are coming up. So what better way to promote it than to body paint dancers, yoga instructors, aerialists and circus performers, and have them contort...
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Marketers May Not Like Facebook's Latest Moneymaking Scheme (FB)
Facebook is playing a dangerous game with marketers. When you like a brand on Facebook, you make it easier for that brand to run ads that you'll see. But you also make it easier for all of that...
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Why Is Millennial Media Selling MORE Stock When It Has $123 Million In The...
Mobile advertising platform Millennial Media added a new question about its business model this week with a plan to sell about one million new shares of common stock (worth about $14.5 million)...
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These Are The 11 Worst Celebrity Product Endorsements Of All Time
This week, A new ad for Chanel No5 was released, starring Brad Pitt. “The world turns and we turn with it,” he intones solemnly. “My luck, my faith, my fortune. Chanel No5… INEVITABLE.” Check out the...
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How 'Scared Bros At A Haunted House' Became The Biggest Viral Campaign Of The...
Five baseball cap-wearing bros, cowered in a corner, eyes wide, limbs akimbo, clutching at each others' poorly developed pecs. It's no wonder that the awe-inspiring photos of "Scared Bros at a Haunted...
View ArticleWatch This Hilarious Maxipad Company's Response To A Ridiculous Facebook Post
Richard Neil just exposed every man to a reality UK maxipad maker, Bodyform, was hoping it would never have to face — "there is no such thing as a happy period." Last week, Neil posted a comment on...
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QUIZNOS CEO: The McRib Is A Mediocre Product That Succeeded Because Of...
Quiznos has a new CEO, and he's loving what McDonald's is doing with its limited-time offerings. Lisa Jennings at Nation's Restaurant News spoke with Quiznos CEO Stuart Mathis about his plans as he...
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GUTSY: Expedia's Gay Marriage Ad Is Narrated By A Homophobic Father
Expedia is publishing a series of videos under the rubric "find yours" which focus on why Americans make the journeys they do. Sounds dull, right? In fact most of the videos in the series have...
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The Makers Of Axe Now Say It Can Cure Homosexuality
Unilever's Lynx, better known in the U.S. as Axe, posted a photo on its "Lynx Effect Hong Kong" Facebook wall that claims one spray can turn lesbians straight. The questionable post (right) was...
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Schools Are Trying Hard To Ban 'Highly Addictive' Flamin' Hot Cheetos
Some school districts in California and New Mexico are trying to ban Flamin' Hot Cheetos, reports ABC News. Why are they doing it? There's a concern about nutrition since each bag contains 26 grams of...
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The New Face Of CoverGirl Is A 13-Year-Old Cancer Patient
13-year-old Talia Joy Castellano of Orlando has had a tough past six years. At the age of seven, she was diagnosed with neuroblatoma, the most common extracranial solid cancer for children, and in...
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Facebook Just Launched Its Next Billion-Dollar Business (FB)
For months, Facebook has been testing a new kind of ad on mobile devices—ads for other apps. Now it's officially launched the app-ad program to all developers. Here's how it works: Developers place...
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Chick-fil-A Says That Its 'Fruitcake' Ad Was Not Anti-Gay
Chick-fil-A caused a bit of a stir when the blog Towleroad posted one of the fast food chain's coupons that read, "Only A Fruitcake Wouldn't Love Our Party Trays!" People got riled up about it because...
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Restaurants Are Starting To Make Instagram Menus [Photos]
Instagram has proven that it only takes a smartphone to become a food photographer with a following. It was only a matter of time until restaurants would start capitalizing on the trend. Click here to...
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BII REPORT: Here's How Consumers Are Shopping With Their Phones
Mobile devices are playing an increasingly large role in commerce. In a special report out from BI Intelligence, we analyze patterns around all types of mobile behavior, including how people use their...
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Here's How Much The Top 15 Media CEOs Spend On Private Jets [Ranked]
We scoured the SEC filings of 15 biggest media companies, like News Corp. and Disney, to see which CEOs get the best perks in the form of private jets and other trinkets. One of them gets more than $1...
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Facebook Sees Increase In 'Mobile Only' Members — Today's Ad Brief
Apparently 19 percent of new Facebook fans have joined on their mobile devices. This should be comforting to brands who want to advertise on the app. Speaking of Facebook, the social media company is...
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Facebook's Adam Gerston Tells Us Why He Quit And Left His Unvested Stock (FB)
Adam Gerston, a manager of Facebook's preferred marketing developers program (which oversees all the independent software developers who want to plug their advertising products into Facebook) has left...
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Meet The 10 Most Followed Companies On Instagram — Ever
Marketers take notice. Even if your brand is not an active Instagram user people are still posting about you, and tagging your brand name with a hashtag. Take McDonald's as an example, while the...
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