Here's A Photo Of Mad Men's Don Draper Using An iPhone
Don Draper — actor Jon Hamm — was caught looking at his iPhone on the set of the Season 6 shoot for AMC.See Gothamist's image gallery here.Please follow Advertising on Twitter and Facebook.Join the...
View ArticleHere Are All The Ridiculous Bacon Dishes On Denny's Latest 'Baconalia' Menu
<div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div>WATCH: How To Make A Bacon Bowl The Denny's Baconalia menu is coming back.Unfamiliar with the...
View ArticleEva Longoria Is Trying To Make Cat Food Sexy
Eva Longoria is attempting something that hasn't been done before: She is trying to make cat food ads sexy.The BBDO-created spot for Sheba cat food shows the "Desperate Housewives" star dancing around...
View ArticleHere's Who's Winning On Facebook Exchange — And How They're Doing It
Since Facebook Exchange (FBX) launched last year, Triggit has been inundated with large direct response advertisers worldwide wanting to try out this most promising new channel. Our Engineering and...
View ArticleThe Most Inspiring Running Video Ever
Steve Bell was born with cystic fibrosis, and the doctors diagnosed him with a "failure to thrive."His daily routine consists of taking 50-70 pills and over an hour of treatment, which includes putting...
View ArticleHere's What Pret A Manger's President Thinks Every Time You Pronounce The...
Pret-ah-mon-gur?Pray-a-mahn-jay?Pretty manager?Pret A Manger is an international fast food chain that has its name mispronounced all the time.We spoke with Martin Bates, president of Pret U.S., and...
View ArticlePROFESSOR: JCPenney Under Ron Johnson Is 'An Unmitigated Catastrophe' (JCP)
Mark Cohen, former CEO of Sears Canada and marketing professor at Columbia University, went on CNBC's Fast Money today to talk about JCPenney.He slammed CEO Ron Johnson and the changes he has made to...
View ArticlePepsi's Global Marketing Chief Is Out After $1 Billion In Lost Sales (PEP)
PepsiCo's global chief marketing officer, Salman Amin, has left the company to become COO at S.C. Johnson, Ad Age reports.Amin will be the 29th senior brand manager to leave Pepsico since 2008.The...
View ArticleAmerican Apparel's First Profits In Years Put The CEO's Sex Scandals In The...
American Apparel recently reported its first net income profit after 12 straight quarters of losses.That's an amazing turnaround for a brand which a few years ago was close to bankruptcy; its CEO...
View ArticleHow Twitter Knows So Much About You Before You've Even Signed Up
If you've been on Twitter for years, like many people in the tech and business world, it's easy to forget what it was like signing up and using it for the first time.The truth is that learning to use...
View ArticleHow To Make A Video Go Viral — Based On The Variables In This Algorithm
There's no denying the power of a viral video. Click here for the tricks>The Dollar Shave Club is now a legendary example. The company, which sells $1 razors, made a low-budget video that went so...
View ArticleEsther Dyson Is Working On A Plan To Make Spam Very, Very Expensive For...
Esther Dyson is well-known in Silicon Valley for her ambitious and otherworldly investments. Her projects include the genetics testing service 23andme, along with a cluster of health and commercial...
View ArticleGoogle Talks About Being Excluded From Facebook Exchange [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:Google talks about being barred from FBX even though AOL, Adobe, and all the other cool kids are in it. "[Google's] DoubleClick Bid Manager is...
View ArticleWPP's Sorrell In Talks To Reduce His £13 Million Pay Package
Sir Martin Sorrell's position at advertising company WPP has been thrown into doubt after investors warned they will push for his departure unless he takes a pay cut.The board of thee world’s largest...
View ArticleStudy Shows Correlation Between Seeing Food Billboards And Obesity
The study found that, “For every 10 percent increase in food advertisements, the odds of being obese increased by 5 percent.”See the full story at the New York Times.Please follow Advertising on...
View ArticlePepsi, The No.1 Soda In Thailand, Just Had Its Market Share Wiped Out By A...
For years, Pepsi was the No.1 soda in Thailand, with a 48 percent market share. Coke was only the second most popular drink there, with 42 percent.But all that changed late last year when PepsiCo...
View ArticleIs Interpublic's Stock Price Signaling That It's a Takeover Target (Again)?
Interpublic Group— the parent company of ad agencies Deutsch, DraftFCB and McCann — reported an organic revenue decrease of 0.4 percent in Q4 2012, and yet its stock went up.IPG has been on the rise...
View ArticleOld Spice's New Spokesman Is A 'Wolfdog'
Isaiah Mustafa. Terry Crews. Mr. Wolfdog.All three of these men (ish) will go down in history as Old Spice's strange assortment of spokesmen."Old Spice was looking for someone to market its new wild...
View ArticleYes, There Is A McDonald's Menu Item Called The 'McGangBang'
Many fast-food restaurants have "secret" menu items — stuff that doesn't appear on the boards but can be ordered as long as you know what you're asking for.And then there's the...
View ArticleThe Competition Should Be Terrified Of Forever 21
Forever 21 is growing like crazy, and the fast fashion retailer is becoming a major threat to the rest of the industry.Analysts Lorraine Hutchinson, Paul Alexander, and Jessica A. Lebo at Bank of...
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