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Greenpeace Ruined Shell's PR Moment With This Brilliant Prank
Greenpeace continued its publicity war against Shell with a pretty magnificent prank at a Formula One race sponsored by the oil company.The environmentalists snuck into the site of the Shell Belgian...
View ArticleWatch Kobe Bryant Play 'Moonlight Sonata' In A Chinese Lenovo Ad
Apple isn't the only tech company to boast piano capabilities in a commercial.A new Chinese ad for PC maker Lenovo shows basketball star Kobe Bryant playing Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata."Almost all of...
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A New Image Recognition App Lets You Shop Straight From Print Ads
As archaic as they may seem, store catalogs and print ads are still a go-to source of information for millions of shoppers every day. Pounce, a new digital shopping app, is turning print ads digital by...
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An Exec From College Football's Pac-12 Explains Why They're Bringing Live...
The college football season is upon us. College football is big business and sits at the heart of a multibillion-dollar rights deals between universities and the big TV networks. Advertisers consider...
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This Ad Exec Wants To Turn Detroit Into The Next Digital Hotspot
Ad agency Lowe Campbell Ewald wants to make Detroit — yes, that Detroit— the latest hub for young professionals in the creative and digital technology fields.But could a city that declared bankruptcy...
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Understanding The Local-Mobile Marketing Explosion
Location-based mobile marketing promises the sky: high conversion rates, surgical targeting, and rich consumer profiles.But does it deliver? According to many accounts, it does.Not surprisingly,...
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Follow All The News From Madison Avenue With "Advertising Select"
Jump start your morning with the most important Advertising news and analysis with Advertising Select, an easy-to-read email newsletter delivered twice a week.What is it? A daily roundup of top...
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The Fight To Standardize 'Do Not Track' Just Took Another Huge Hit
The privacy movement battling to standardize "Do Not Track" (DNT) policies on web browsers — which would stop advertisers from targeting people based on their browsing history — took another major hit...
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Why One Of Facebook's Earliest Ad Sales Guys Decided Not To Join The Company
Josh Iverson was one of Facebook's very first ad sales people. In 2004, as a media seller at Y2M, he had the job of representing Facebook to companies like Ford and Nickelodeon, which were...
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Study Says Burger King And McDonald's Violated Child Advertising Rules [THE...
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:A new study finds that McDonald's and Burger King have not adhered to self-regulated guidelines on marketing to children. The study says the...
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Bionics, Wearables, Internet Of Things, And 3D Printing Coming To IGNITION
Hugh Herr has been called the “Leader of the Bionic Age” because of his revolutionary work in the emerging field of "biomechatronics"— technology that marries human physiology with electromechanics. A...
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Legendary Ad Exec Makes Job Applicants Go Through Hilarious Online Test
Goodby, Silverstein & Partners co-founder Rich Silverstein is looking for a new executive assistant in San Francisco, and the application process is the internet equivalent of an American...
View ArticleIncredible Time-Lapse Video Shows Chinese Workers Knitting A Shoe Onto A...
To promote Nike's Free Flyknit running shoes, Nike China pulled of this incredible publicity stunt. Workers on harnesses (it doesn't look very safe) knitted a shoe onto a foot in Nanjing.Here's a great...
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Britain Banned This Ad For Comparing Women In Lingerie To Noodles
The U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority banned a salacious Facebook ad for Unilever's Pot Noodle product Wednesday, saying that the company abdicated its social responsibility by presenting a woman...
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WPP's Sorrell Uses Earnings Call To Insult 'Sludgy Brown' Publicis-Omnicom...
In its first earnings presentation since Omnicom and Publicis announced they planned to merge last month,WPP expressed a lack of concern Thursday at the consolidation that would knock it from its perch...
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Foursquare Says It Has 'Proven Its Business Model' And Is Pulling In $1...
Things are looking up for Foursquare, Dennis Crowley's location exploration company.It just soft launched a new alerts feature that Crowley believes is pivotal, and it may pursue a strategic investment...
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Canadian Calls First Doritos Locos Taco One Of The Greatest Moments Of His Life
In a moment that displayed both the crushing banality and sporadic exhilaration of the human condition, a Canadian Taco Bell fan was surprised with his first Doritos Locos Taco and declared the...
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Ad Agencies Would Rather Work With These 4 Companies Than Sign On With Apple...
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:For the second consecutive year, Nike topped a list of brands senior advertising executives most wanted to work with. The study, performed by...
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This Is What The Massive Growth Of Mobile Media Consumption Means For The...
Mobile-centric social networks, mobile video companies, and location based services are well positioned to see the biggest benefits from the massive shift in consumer media consumption and usage...
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REPORT: 100% Of Internet Users Could Have Ad-Blocking Software By 2018
Earlier this month, we told you about a report that found Google lost a whopping $887 million from ad blocking in 2012. A new study suggests that number might just be the tip of the iceberg.In its...
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