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BLACKOUT: This Is What CBS Looks Like In New York Right Now For Time Warner...
CBS and Time Warner Cable have failed to come to agreement regarding fees to retransmit content.So when Time Warner subscribers turn to CBS in New York City, Dallas and Los Angeles, you get a blue...
View ArticleAD OF THE DAY: James Franco get Punched In The Face
James Franco will be Comedy Central's next punching bag.The Comedy Central Roast of Jame Franco will tape this month in Los Angeles and premiere Labor Day on the network. The roast already has an...
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Here's The Real Reason Syncapse Went Bankrupt — And It's Not Facebook's Fault...
We recently reported on the bankruptcy and layoffs at Syncapse, a Facebook preferred marketing developer (PMD) that had taken $45 million in funding, had ~180 employees globally, and clients such as...
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11 Absolutely Bizarre Craigslist Ads
There are a lot of weird Craiglist ads bouncing around the Internet.You can get anything from a cronut to a last minute wedding date to a butt-shaped pumpkin.At this point, even Craigslist is in on the...
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How Martin Sorrell Can Exploit The Omnicom-Publicis Merger
Sir Martin Sorrell is more used to making the news rather than reacting to it. But it was in reaction mode that he found himself last weekend when he learnt that Omnicom and Publicis were to merge.If...
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Facebook Poached Its First-Ever CMO From Google [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:Facebook hired Google alum Gary Briggs to be its first CMO. He was the chief marketer at Motorola Mobility after Google acquired the company....
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Facebook Is Facing Its 'Weird' Problem — And Has Hired A Guy From Pepsi To...
The news that Facebook has hired Gary Briggs, a former brand manager of Pepsi, to be its new chief marketing officer may come as a surprise.Many people thought Facebook already had a chief marketer —...
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Company Accuses LinkedIn Of 'Extreme Sexism' After It Pulled An Ad Featuring...
Toptal, a small developer networking platform, is accusing LinkedIn of perpetuating "extreme sexism within the tech community."Why? The tech giant started rejecting Toptal's ads for female engineers...
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Emirates Created A Google Street View To Show Off Its Huge, Luxurious Planes
Emirates has a new way to show off just how great it can be to travel in one of its Airbus A380 jumbojets: It partnered with Google to create a Street View for the plane, a first for an aircraft.The...
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Mercedes Doesn't Want You To See This Weird, Sexual Innuendo-Filled Video It...
Mercedes-Benz posted and then took down a bizarre video— in which a throaty singer rhapsodizes from a car's point of view about her "service" man to a backdrop of muscly mechanic stock photos — on...
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A Famous Rugby Player Raced A Plane To Promote New British Airways Routes
Starting next February, British Airways is planing to bring one of their newest birds down to Johannesburg, so it makes sense to build some excitement around the news of a new A380 route.We're not...
View ArticleNokia Bashes The iPhone's Camera Using Apple's Advertising Style (NOK, AAPL)
Nokia has a new ad attacking Apple's iPhone. It takes the ad style Apple used recently to advertise its camera, then spins it around to say the camera on the Lumia 925 is much better than the camera on...
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Struggling JCPenney Gets A New Marketing Chief
NEW YORK (AP) — J.C. Penney Co. has hired an executive from the mac-and-cheese world to reconnect with its middle-income shoppers.The beleaguered department store on Monday named Kraft Foods Inc....
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Kmart Isn't Dropping Its 'Ship My Pants' Puns Any Time Soon
We hope you like Kmart's "Ship My Pants" and "Big Gas Savings" puns, because the company decided to keep the agency behind those viral campaigns as its agency of record.Since January, Kmart has been...
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The Most Interesting Man In The World Reveals Who Really Deserves The Title...
Jonathan Goldstein, better known as Dos Equis' Most Interesting Man in the World, answered questions in a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" session last week in an effort to raise money for an organization that...
View ArticleDomino's Is Making 'Pizzavestments' In 30 Startups [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:Domino's will make "Pizzavestments" in 30 different startups in the form of $500 gift certificates. Because most good work is #poweredbypizza....
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Video Adtech Startup Yume Goes Public Today, But Insiders Already Own 84% Of...
Followers of adtech stocks will have their fingers crossed for YuMe, a video ad network whose IPO opens today on U.S. stock markets. Adtech stocks have disappointed investors recently. Tremor Video,...
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Why The "Second Screen" Industry Is Set To Explode
Watching television while also using a smartphone or tablet is one of the most popular leisure activities of the mobile era. The mobile industry is working hard to create mobile apps and sites that...
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Here's Why You Shouldn't Trust The Pictures Hotels Post Online — Mexican...
Things aren't always what they seem, especially when it comes to the photographs on hotel websites.Our friends at hotel review website Oyster.com recently traveled to Puerto Vallarta, a popular resort...
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These Secrets Will Improve Your Mobile Ads' Click-Through Rates
Jumptap teamed up with Dynamic Logic and Celtra analyzed thousands of mobile ads to determine what small details make a mobile campaigns work, and what makes them flop.Everything from the number of...
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