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Ad of the Day: BBC
Sir David Attenborough may finally be moving on from the BBC, but he still wants viewers to watch the network's glossy nature docs. Last week, following the final episode of the Attenborough-narrated...
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W+K Adds 4 Partners
Wieden + Kennedy, well-known for its careful selection in adding new partners, named four additional ones at the independent Portland, Ore.-based agency: Portland managing director Tom Blessington,...
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Tough Year Ahead for Ad Industry
Media agencies have shrunk their ad spending forecasts, Publicis Groupe is clamping down on hiring and salaries, and MDC Partners CEO Miles Nadal is seeing a deceleration in marketer spending. Looks...
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A Holiday Tale: The Christmas Tree Wars
The sale of fresh-cut Christmas trees may not rack up the billions spent on clothing or electronics at this time of year, but Americans did buy 27 million holiday conifers last year, dropping $976...
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A Million Little Klouts
Social media-loving ninjas, gurus, and wizards may once have touted their Klout. But if the recent spate of criticisms over the company’s privacy, transparency, and methodology is any indication,...
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TBS "Funniest Commercials of the Year: 2011"
TBS "Funniest Commercials of the Year: 2011"
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WPP Launches New Lincoln Unit
WPP today unveiled plans for a new, as-yet-unnamed agency, dedicated to Ford Motor's Lincoln nameplate. To be based in New York, the shop will reintroduce Lincoln's new designs to consumers and better...
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Fast Chat: State Farm's Tim Van Hoof
Tim Van Hoof, who manages marketing and communications at State Farm, is on the front lines of the hyper-competitive insurance category, which has experienced significant increases in media spending...
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Information Diet: Rex Lee
What’s the first information you consume in the morning? First thing in the morning, I check my email. Then the phone usually rings and I won’t answer it—I’ll check my caller ID after. What do you...
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Mary Gets a Positive Pregnancy Test in Church's Christmas Billboard
Get a load of this billboard from St. Matthews in the City, a progressive Anglican church in Auckland, New Zealand. I mean, Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Well, only Mary is shown, actually, and she's gazing...
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Airline Lets You Pick a Seatmate by Looking Through Facebook
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is allowing people to look through the Facebook and LinkedIn profiles of their fellow passengers to see who they'd like to sit next to. Fortunately, you have to opt into the...
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Fed's Food Guidelines Hit Brick Wall in Year-End Budget Bill
The federal government's proposed food guidelines for marketing food to children hit a brick wall Thursday as Congress prepares to vote out its year-end budget package for 2012. The Consolidated...
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Trailer Mash 12-16-11
In a trailer that looks more like a YouTube tribute video, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol takes all your favorite stunts from 15 years of Mission: Impossible flicks and ramps them so far up the...
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Infographic: Viral Spiral, 2006-11
Below is one of the coolest advertising infographics you'll see: the Viral Spiral of most-shared ads from the past five years, built by Unruly Media—the same company that previously brought us the 20...
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Spirits Are Sky High Around Jack Daniel's Holiday Barrel Tree
Nothing says Christmas quite like a 26-foot-tall tree made of whiskey barrels. More than 100 white oak containers were used to create the tree, which is a "present" from Jack Daniel's to its hometown...
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Pranksters Turn Rotating Billboard Into a Merry-Go-Round
First, there was a billboard swingset in Hong Kong. Now, there's a billboard merry-go-round in Prague. Well, it's really more of a billboard whirlygig, but the point is that another piece of...
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New York Life Completes Creative Search
New York Life has selected a new lead creative agency, a week after final presentations. Euro RSCG will succeed Taxi on the business. Taxi, which has handled the account since 2007, did not defend....
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California Ad Urges Kim Kardashian to Pay More Taxes
Since California's legislature is too broken to agree on a budget, progressive advocacy group the Courage Campaign has to literally beg Kim Kardashian to support higher taxes on the state's...
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