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Congress Gets Involved in Fight Over Food Marketing Guidelines
WASHINGTON—The food and beverage lobby is finally getting some attention on Capitol Hill as it tries to neuter the government's proposed voluntary guidelines for marketing food to children. More than...
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Ad of the Day: Pretzel M&M's
Is there any halfway-popular '80s song left that hasn't been used, sarcastically or otherwise, in a TV commercial? Eric Carmen's "Hungry Eyes," that unsettling ode to leering, stalker-ish types...
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Muslim Teens Convicted of Spray-Painting Burkas on Half-Naked Ad Models
First, the cops busted NYC's Moustache Man for drawing facial hair on subway ads. Now, London's Burka Boys have been brought to justice for spray-painting the Muslim cloak of modesty onto Lynx poster...
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Fabio's Post-Old Spice Career: Weatherman in Portland, Ore.?
Sometime during the course of last week's Old Spice duel, Fabio showed up at KOIN-TV in Portland, Ore. (home of Old Spice agency Wieden + Kennedy), and did a weather forecast. Things were looking dry...
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Nissan Offers Horsepower, Not Damn Singing Ponies
Here's your crazy car commercial of the day—a spot from Nissan Brazil (by Lew'Lara\TBWA in São Paulo) in which the hood of a rival vehicle is popped open to reveal an engine powered by jolly "pôneis...
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Girl With iPad Head Helps Launch 'Cosmo for Guys' App
Hearst's first iPad-only magazine, CFG: Cosmo for Guys, has just been released. And to promote it, they released this little video of a girl walking through Bryant Park in New York with her head...
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Ashton Kutcher's Curtain Call for 'Two and a Half Men'
After putting his clothes back on, Ashton Kutcher officially takes Charlie Sheen's place alongside Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones in this reworked version of the iconic curtain shot for Two and a Half...
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UBS Ditches WTC Move
The new World Trade Center site is now down one tenant. UBS confirmed that it will not be moving into the new development despite “advanced talks” between the bank and site developers. The decision...
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10 Cool Uses of American Eagle's Stunning LED Sign in Times Square
When American Eagle opened its Times Square store in late 2009, most of the attention was on the retailer's sprawling 25,000-square-foot, four-story floor plan. But in the year and half since then,...
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Adweek kicks off 'Talent 100'
Buried by the billings-driven structures of the ad industry, creative professionals have long toiled in near-anonymity: tweaking layouts and obsessing over copy and video software while clients and...
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Nokia's Giant Stop-Motion Ad Smaller Than Sum of Its Parts
Stop-motion morning on AdFreak continues with Nokia. Last summer, the telecom brand presented the charming stop-motion adventures of Dot, a tiny girl's fevered—but ultimately victorious—sprint through...
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'Idol' Has Coke, Now 'The X Factor' Has Pepsi
On Fox's American Idol, the judges’ ever-present Coca-Cola cups have always been a familiar feature of the show—even managing to outlast most of those judges, including Simon Cowell. Now, Pepsi wants...
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Ad of the Day: DirecTV
This time last year, DirecTV had a huge breakout hit with Gregor the Russian billionaire and his "Opulence, I has it" commercial from Grey, New York. The spot—portraying DirecTV's target market as...
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New Era Takes Baldwin-Krasinski Rivalry to the JumboTron
With the Yankees and Red Sox tied atop the American League East and playing each other this weekend, it's time for Alec Baldwin and John Krasinski to renew their trash-talking ad campaign for New Era...
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Q&A: Nude-Photo Artist Accuses Zappos of Ripping Her Off
• Note: One of the images below features nudity. NSFW. When Zappos unveiled its "More Than Shoes" campaign earlier this summer, featuring naked women on the streets of New York, it certainly turned...
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Nokia, Wieden Split
Wieden + Kennedy and Nokia, one of the agency’s largest clients, have split after working together since 2007. The move comes after reports surfaced in May that said the Finnish mobile phone group...
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McCann Worldgroup Acquires London Interactive Firm AllofUs
McCann Worldgroup has acquired AllofUs, a U.K. interactive design agency that has worked for media and entertainment clients like the BBC, BSkyB, Canal+ and Xbox in addition to technology marketers...
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McCann Erickson's Layoffs Affect 25-30 Staffers
Sources now estimate that 25 to 30 staffers lost their jobs in Thursday’s round of layoffs at McCann Erickson New York. Such a cut represents a more than 5 percent reduction in the total New York...
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Hampton Inn Launches Creative Review
Hilton Hotels has launched a review of its Hampton Inn creative account, with annual revenue estimated at $2 million. Incumbent Draftfcb in Chicago is not defending. As a result, the agency will lose...
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