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You're Not Going To Want To Miss Elon Musk At IGNITION
Is a 42-year-old serial entrepreneur already the greatest tech god since Steve Jobs? Or maybe ever? Thousands of Quora up-voters think so. And we won’t disagree.Extreme entrepreneurialism is what the...
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LAST CHANCE: Tell Us Who Are The Most Powerful Women In Mobile Advertising
Today is the deadline for nominations in our annual ranking of the most powerful women in mobile advertising. We recently ranked the most powerful executives in mobile advertising, and the list turns...
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Here's How Vogue Is Doing Against Its Rivals In The Fight For Fashion Ads
Though the nation's news magazines have been plagued by a steady decline in advertising sales in recent years, new data from marketing analysis firm MediaRadar suggests that women's fashion magazines...
View Article23 Ridiculously Unfortunate Ad Placements
No matter how well-intentioned an ad is, its message can be totally foiled based on its placement. We've already shown you the worst online ad placements ever— which includes ads for the "Dead Like Me"...
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Texas Sign Company Makes Awful Decal Depicting Woman Tied Up In The Back Of A...
Here's some viral advertising gone wrong.An ad company in Waco, Texas that makes decals for trucks thought it would be a good move to make one that depicts a woman tied up in the back of a pickup...
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Dunkin' Donuts Made A TV Commercial Out Of One Vine [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:Dunkin' Donuts will debut the first TV ad made entirely from a Vine during tonight's Monday Night Football broadcast. Adweek reports, "The...
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Emily White Has The Large Task Of Turning A Zero-Revenue Business For...
If Instagram had a Chief Operating Officer, it'd be Emily White. White, 35, worked for Facebook and joined Instagram in April, nearly one year after the ~ $1 billion acquisition. She is Instagram's...
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Apple Is Nearly Doubling Its Design Team To Make Better Ads
Apple will nearly double the size of its in-house marketing design team, according to a report from Ann-Christine Diaz at Ad Age.The company is adding between 200 and 300 new creatives to a team...
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McDonald's Is Testing A Family-Sized Value Meal
McDonald's is testing a family-sized meal package. The Blitz Box contains two Quarter Pounders with cheese, two medium french fries, and 20 Chicken McNuggets, reports Burger Business. The meal, which...
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There's A Breaking Bad Meth Lab Toy Set And LEGO Wants Nothing To Do With It
LEGO does not want to be associated with a lookalike brick toy set that recreates a meth lab from AMC's hit drama "Breaking Bad."Citizen Brick already sold out of the $250 Superlab Playset— complete...
View ArticleAn Indy Filmmaker Created This Awesome Ad To Convince Young People To Buy A...
Skateboards, American flags, and American flag bikinis aren't standard in Mercedes-Benz commercials, but they're all over a new ad from filmmaker Casey Neistat.Then again, the CLA-Class isn't a...
View ArticleThis Ad Campaign Convinced 100,000 People To Stop Smoking Forever
The federal government is calling its first national tobacco education ad campaign a rousing success.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said today that its three-month "Tips From Former...
View ArticleMotorola's New Ads Say Your Smartphone Is Lazy
One day before Apple's highly anticipated September product announcement, Motorola rolled out a new series of television commercials for the Moto X.The three spots, which are currently on YouTube and...
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Twitter Acquires MoPub for $350 Million In Order To Build A Mobile Ad Exchange
Twitter has acquired MoPub, a mobile ad network, ad serving business, and real time bidding exchange that claims to handle around $100 million annual spending on apps and other mobile media, according...
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This App Shows What Your Face Looks Like After 5 Years Of Meth Abuse
You may remember Rehabs.com's "Horrors of Methamphetamines" viral campaign from last December. It borrowed a popular marketing tactic used by police departments to convince people to stay away from...
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The Facebook Advertising Ecosystem Explained
Facebook is a daily destination for millions and millions of consumers. Increasingly, their ad products offer targeting according to specific demographics, social connections, interests, and habits....
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This Coca-Cola Ad Is The First To Include Live Tweets While It Airs [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:A Coca-Cola ad in Romania is thought to be the first to include live tweets when it airs. The agency MRM Worldwide in Romania edited the tweets...
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Rocket Fuel IPO Offers Glimpse Of Actual Dollars Being Spent In Facebook's Ad...
Rocket Fuel, the real-time bidding adtech company, updated its IPO filing yesterday to indicate how much it expects to raise when its stock becomes available to the public: $981 million.The company,...
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Golf Course Gets Death Threats For Tacky '$9.11' Anniversary Promotion
Wisconsin golf course Tumbledown Trails has been forced through social media shaming to apologize for a completely tone deaf newspaper ad offering a 12th anniversary of 9/11 discount."To Commemorate...
View ArticleNokia And Microsoft Are Already Making Fun Of The New iPhone On Twitter
Almost immediately after Apple announced the new iPhone, Nokia UK — and by extension Microsoft, which runs Windows Phone on Nokia and just bought the Nokia smartphone business — tweeted a jab aimed at...
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