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Havas' New Growth Officer Has Digital Roots
Havas Worldwide has plucked an executive from the digital agency world to lead new business efforts in the U.S. Laura Maness most recently was an svp in charge of business development and marketing at...
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Ad of the Day: Milano Cookies
The slogan in this new ad for Pepperidge Farm's Milano cookies is "My yummy secret," which is either the title of an article in Ladies Home Journal or a late-night movie on Cinemax. The ad itself,...
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Feds Abandon Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels
The Food and Drug Administration is backing down from its controversial cigarette warning labels that landed it in court on First Amendment grounds, according to an Associated Press report. Instead...
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Denver Cabs Outfitted With Mammoth Tusks to Promote Museum Exhibit
The taxicabs in Denver are a bit hornier than usual, and it's all science's fault. Carmichael Lynch put ornamental mammoth tusks on a fleet of cabs to drum up attention for the Denver Museum of Nature...
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Satanic Furby Parody Ad Only Slightly Weirder Than Other Japanese Ads
Sure, Japanese ads are crazy. But they rarely sink (or is that rise?) to the level of satanic-cult-forcing-Furbies-to-cannibalize-themselves crazy. Sadly, the "Creepy Japanese Furby Commercial" below...
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A Tipsy Time With the Half-Naked Bellboy
If you’ve ever stayed in a hotel that has over two stars, you’ve already met him. But heck, even if you’ve only seen it in the movies, we all know what happens when you drop your bags at the front...
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Stipple Helps Brands Make More Money From Online Images
SpecsWho CEO, co-founder Rey Flemings (l.);CTO, co-founder Michael DunganWhat Image-focused technology companyWhere San Francisco offices Digital image company Stipple has Justin Timberlake as a...
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Wife Puts Up Nasty Billboard to Get Revenge on Cheating Husband
Revenge billboards are getting to be a trend. Expensive but emotionally satisfying, they're great for anything from declaring spousal inadequacies to calling out cheaters. This one, in Greensboro,...
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Parody Poster Captures the Special Hell of Summer Music Festivals
Neat Dude Collective's "Yet Another Fucking Music Festival" parody poster is as observant as it is snarky, so clearly they've got some folks who've been to Bonnaroo and Coachella more than a few...
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Adweek's Brand Paternity Test: Who Owns What?
When you buy anything these days, from apple juice to an Audi A6, chances are good that at least some of your money is going to a parent company that might surprise you. It is a rare and inquisitive...
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Manny Anekal Jumps to MediaSpike
Manny Anekal has been named the chief revenue officer for MediaSpike, a startup focused on mobile in-game advertising. Anekal is one of the most seasoned veterans in the still-nascent world of...
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Net Income Grows 5 Percent at Havas
Both net income and revenue climbed at Havas in 2012, in what CEO David Jones described today as a strong year. Net income grew 5 percent to $162.6 million, while revenue rose 8 percent to $2.3...
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How Did Amazon End Up Selling T-Shirts With Ridiculously Offensive Slogans?
Amazon has taken some heat for offering T-shirts with extremely offensive, upsetting slogans—"Keep calm and rape a lot," "Keep calm and grope a lot," "Keep calm and knife her"—from a merchant called,...
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Alphabird, Digimogul: Tell us Who's Behind the Botnet
The Chameleon botnet continues to plague the display advertising industry. It hurts even the most savvy advertisers—fraudulently costing them millions of dollars per month. The botnet also hurts...
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Lyle Lovett's Latest Gig: Men's Shirts
Four-time Grammy winner Lyle Lovett is usually busy writing songs, touring with his 18-piece band, acting in the occasional movie or riding horses on his Texas farm. The last thing the singer would...
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George Lois Hates Mad Men, but Loves Madhouse
If George Lois has yet to prevail upon you how much he hates Mad Men—and he's done so a number of times in the past few years, even though Don Draper was supposedly modeled on him—allow the...
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Reggie Watts Really Wants You to Stop Paying for Carbon Pollution
You're sitting down, doing your taxes, just trying not to hate the universe, when a pocket-picking smoke monster reaches into your jacket and steals all your cash. This is "The Price of Carbon," the...
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Heidi Klum Is Mrs. Robinson in Carl's Jr.'s Weird Spoof of The Graduate
Heidi Klum is the latest person who doesn't eat Hardee's/Carl's Jr. to film an ad for the fast-food chain. The spot, from 72andSunny, which spoofs The Graduate for whatever reason, has Klum chowing...
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Driving School: Director Peter Atencio on Pepsi's Wildly Popular Jeff Gordon...
Pepsi stormed YouTube last week with one of the year's most popular videos: a clip featuring Jeff Gordon, in disguise, taking a car salesman on the most frightening test drive of his life. The video...
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