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Before Life as Call Girl, Olympic Runner Starred in Controversial Nike Ad
A three-time Olympian and star of a controversial Nike ad from the 2000 Summer Games has recently been living a double life as a high-price call girl, according to a new investigative report by The...
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FTC Reports Food Marketing to Children Down 19.5%
Nutrition watchdogs should be pleased. Food companies are spending less money marketing to children and youth, a new Federal Trade Commission report found. Compared to 2006, food marketing targeting...
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Trailer Mash 12-21-12
Merry Christmas from the trailers. In this week's selection, there's a treat to delight every MPAA-approved palate, naughty or nice. For families with eyeballs that still function after the experiment...
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Lenovo Enters Final Stages of a Media Review
Lenovo is in the late stages of a U.S. media review with final pitches scheduled next month, Adweek has learned. The electronics giant will hear pitches from Deutsch, Digitas and Kirshenbaum Bond...
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Adweek.com's Top 10 Advertising Stories of 2012
Here are the 10 most-read advertising and branding stories published on Adweek.com in 2012: NRA's Social Silence By Christopher Heine The National Rifle Association shut down a key Twitter account...
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A Holiday Look Back: The Dumbest Gift Ads Ever
If you’re reading this right now, there’s a good chance you’re still trying to find that perfect holiday gift. And if you’re a marketer, you’re probably also worried about how you’ve advertised that...
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Toyota Pays $1.1 Billion to Settle Lawsuit
Toyota Motor Corp. will spend $1.1 billion to settle a two-year-old class-action lawsuit by millions of owners of the manufacturer's cars who said their vehicles suddenly and unintentionally...
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Fast Chat: Joyce King Thomas on Her Return to McCann Worldgroup
Next month Joyce King Thomas returns to McCann Worldgroup as president of a new unit called McCann ExtraBoldCondensed, an agency created specifically for MasterCard, one of Worldgroup’s largest global...
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Time Cuts Back in 2013
In an unusual step for Time, the newsweekly is publishing three fewer issues this year, for a total of 48. Time usually only had one double issue, its year-end Person of the Year issue. This year...
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Kellogg’s Lazar Heads to Team Detroit
Betsy Lazar, whose car experience spans both the agency and marketer worlds, replaces Andrew Prakken as chief media officer at the Dearborn, Mich.-based agency. Prakken is leaving the shop after about...
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A-B on Super Bowl: Time to Launch Products
For Anheuser-Busch, the Super Bowl has morphed into a day for new product launches. Last year, the brewer launched Bud Light Platinum on the big game, and this year, two other brand...
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Top 10 Commercials of the Week: Jan. 4-11
This week, DirecTV posits that cable is worse than lots of other terrible things, Blake Griffin wants you to "Be amazing," and McDonald's chicken is literally out of this world. Many of the hundreds...
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British Department Store Makes Life Quieter With 'Debranded' Products
British department store Selfridges, a purveyor of products from hundreds of corporate brands, is so sorry about how you are assaulted by corporate branding. So, as part of its new "No Noise" campaign...
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Kaley Cuoco and William Shatner Team Up for Priceline Spot
Shatner's back, bitches! Sure, Priceline killed off his iconic "Negotiator" character in a bus crash a year ago. But we all knew that creative shift had about as much chance of sticking as a bad...
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Ad of the Day: Axe
On the list of sexy male professions, fireman is a perennial top pick. Just ask any male stripper (or the audience at Magic Mike). But according to Axe, the maker of pungent body sprays favored by...
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Why Are You at CES, Forbes?
Of course Forbes has been sending editors and reporters to International CES for years. They’re a business publication. But what’s the business side of the publication doing at the world’s largest...
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Do Not Consider These Funny but Fake 'For Your Consideration' Ads
The litany of "For Your Consideration" ads that precede each year's Academy Awards are just about the saddest display of desperation in modern marketing—which is saying something. The countless pleas...
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W+K Preps Next Generation of Management
Wieden + Kennedy is preparing the next generation of management with a new global executive team. Colleen DeCourcy, the founder, chief creative officer and CEO of social media firm Socialistic, has...
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Modern Dancers Are 'Human Sushi' in Crazy Seafood Ads
Ad agency Try/Apt put together a series of spots for the Norwegian Seafood Council that show modern dancers frolicking around as pieces of fish in an attempt to make sushi more appealing. That's one...
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Ad for Alabama Football Museum Reveals Downside to All Those Trophies
Here in Alabama, our unshakable dominance over college football has become practically ridiculous. And while the clip below is supposed to be a farce, there's a certain amount of believability to it....
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