VW's Highly Anticipated Super Bowl Teaser Ditches Star Wars And Dogs For A Llama
Volkswagen — the company we can probably thank for the Super Bowl ad teaser craze — just released a sneak peek of its highly anticipated Super Bowl spot.VW became a Super Bowl heavy hitter when Deutsch...
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Exactly One Year After JCPenney Swore Off Sales, It's Having A Sales Event (JCP)
On February 1, JCPenney will be holding a sales event, sources told us.But it's still not calling the "event" a "sale."The event seems to be a Valentine's Day sale for fine jewelry.It's happening...
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Apple Is No Longer One Of The Hottest Brands In America
Apple barely missed making the list of the 10 most well-liked in the U.S., says marketing research firm YouGov BrandIndex.It's ranked 11.Last year, it also barely made the list. Its rank slipped again...
View ArticleAD OF THE DAY: This Real Estate Developer Thinks It Knows Why You Keep...
Homebuilder One at Windermere has made a humorous ad that criticizes other real estate developers for building houses that all look the same.The spot from agency Giants & Gentlemen shows a woman...
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Vogue Plans 'Miss Vogue' Spinoff For Youngsters
Style magazine British Vogue will launch a teen edition, Miss Vogue, alongside its June issue.British Vogue will make its first attempt at catering for the younger reader with the launch of Miss Vogue...
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G.E. Loved Being Mocked On '30 Rock' So Much It's Making Ads About It [THE...
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:In spite of the fact that "30 Rock" made mocking G.E. a staple portion of its show — Alec Baldwin's character is a General Electric loyalist —...
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Look At All The Clues To Mad Men Season 6 In These Gorgeous Black-And-White...
While you're waiting for "Mad Men" to return for a sixth season (there's a two-hour premiere on Sunday, April 7), AMC is teasing fans with these gorgeous, old-timey black-and-white photos of the cast...
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JOB OF THE WEEK: Director, Strategic Analytics
Check out the Business Insider Jobs section >>As part of our new partnership with CareerBuilder.com, each week we'll feature one of the awesome jobs advertised on the Business Insider jobs...
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Ad Execs Are Using This Blog To Get Revenge On Their Creepy Bosses And Clients
A blog called "The Creative Confessional" started life as a place where art directors and copywriters at ad agencies could go to anonymously confess their weird quirks and dislikes about the job. A...
View ArticleThis Ad Is Really Footage Of A $20,000 Robbery
Getting $20,000 worth of merchandise stolen right before Christmas is pretty awful. That's why Brazilian menswear store Reserva decided to make metaphorical lemonade out of its lemons and incorporate...
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Seamless Will Give Customers $7 Off If They Like It On Facebook
Seamless, the restaurant delivery company, has decided to give up the pretense of gathering fans organically on Facebook in favor of bribing them with $7 of free food.Anyone who likes Seamless on...
View ArticleHere's Go Daddy's First Super Bowl Ad — And It's Actually Pretty Funny
Who cares if the game is 10 days away? Go Daddy just released its first Super Bowl ad— that's right, not a teaser, but the full first commercial — on YouTube, and it's actually pretty funny.Go Daddy is...
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These Charts Show Drunk People Are The Best At Sharing Super Bowl Ads
For the fourth consecutive year, agency Venables Bell & Partners released statics about how people watch — and more important to marketers, share — Super Bowl ads.Click here to see the...
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Inside The Old Ford Plant Where American Apparel Stashes Its Mannequin Army
American Apparel has repurposed an old 1913 Los Angeles Ford plant by using it as a home for its mannequins. It's an eclectic collection."American Apparel buys a lot of dead stock, lingerie, and porn...
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UPDATED: Here's Everything We Know About The Super Bowl Ad Lineup
As the countdown begins for Super Bowl XLVII, it's time to focus on one of the most important parts of the game: The ads.We're updating this post daily as news comes in, so keep checking back.We might...
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Huge Business Lawsuit Threatens Your Ability To Skip TV Ads
A huge legal battle is brewing between Fox and Dish Network over Dish's "Hopper," which records entire primetime lineups and "instantly" skips TV ads.In what CNN Money called a "damning court filing,"...
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TMZ Lost Big Advertisers After Posting Video That Showed Teen's Murder
TMZ edited its video late Thursday night of a teenager's murder outside a Hollywood nightclub, as advertisers abandoned the gossip site and a Change.org petition gathered more than 200,000...
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ACKMAN: Here's The Problem With Ron Johnson's Vision For JCPenney Right Now...
Activist investor Bill Ackman went on CNBC's "Half Time" today and before his monumental confrontation with billionaire investor Carl Icahn, he provided some insights about what's going on at the...
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Mercedes Provided More Than 70 Cars To Be Destroyed In 'A Good Day To Die Hard'
When the fifth installment of "Die Hard" comes up Valentine's Day, there will be a lot destruction, explosions, and seriously totaled Mercedes.Mercedes-Benz revealed a behind-the-scenes look showing...
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Here's The First Ad To Run On Vine, Twitter's New Video App
Urban Outfitters was the first big brand to run an ad on Vine, as far as we can tell from searching Twitter and media coverage of the launch of Twitter's ingenious new 6-second video app.Vine was...
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