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Taylor Swift's CoverGirl Ad Is Pulled Over Bogus Eyelashes
Of all the blatant and unnecessary Photoshops in fashion photography, the hammer came down on Taylor Swift's eyelashes? Really? Yes, really, according to the National Advertising Division of the...
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British PSA: Don't Get Drunk and Fall Under a Train This Holiday
The British Transport Police are airing closed-circuit video recorded earlier this year of a drunk woman slipping underneath a train as part of a campaign designed to illustrate the dangers of...
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The Year in Portraits
Size still matters in our world. After all, an estimated two-thirds of all marketing dollars flow through agencies that major holding companies own. The big guys don’t hold a monopoly on big ideas,...
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AdFreak's Top 50 Stories of 2011: No. 50-41
It's been a crazy year on AdFreak. This week, we're counting down the 50 most-read stories on the blog in 2011 (not counting the features shown in the sidebar). We begin today with No. 50 down to No....
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Trailer Mash 12-23-11
Against the odds, the first teaser for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was rather thrilling. Against the odds because by the time it appeared this fall, who wasn't bored to death of Lispeth Salander...
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AdFreak's Top 50 Stories of 2011: No. 40-31
It's been a crazy year on AdFreak. This week, we're counting down the 50 most-read stories on the blog in 2011 (not counting the features shown in the sidebar). We continue today with No. 40 down to...
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Emirates Airline Launches U.S. TV Ad Campaign
Emirates Airline has launched a national television campaign in the United States, the airline's creative agency StrawberryFrog announced today. The spot, which began airing Tuesday, touts Emirates'...
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It's Game Over for One Insanely Abrasive Video-Game PR Guy
Anytime a PR guy finds himself emailing "Please make it stop" to one of the most influential people on the Internet, you can bet that a career-ending social-media meltdown is well under way. This week...
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AdFreak's Top 50 Stories of 2011: No. 30-21
It's been a crazy year on AdFreak. This week, we're counting down the 50 most-read stories on the blog in 2011 (not counting the features shown in the sidebar). We continue today with No. 30 down to...
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Penney-Saatchi Split Ends Single Lead Agency Model
JCPenney’s split with Saatchi & Saatchi comes a month after the retailer added Peterson Milla Hooks to its creative roster and amid the company’s shift toward a multi-agency model. The merchant...
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AdFreak's Top 50 Stories of 2011: No. 20-11
It's been a crazy year on AdFreak. This week, we're counting down the 50 most-read stories on the blog in 2011 (not counting the features shown in the sidebar). We continue today with No. 20 down to...
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Dave Moore Confirms Role as Co-CCO, Avrett Free Ginsberg
It’s official: Dave Moore has joined Avrett Free Ginsberg as co-chief creative officer. His partner is Joe Petruccio, who has been CCO at the Interpublic agency. Moore has been informally working at...
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Gaming Firm Responds to PR Nightmare With 1,200-Word Press Release
More than 16,000 emails, many of them made up largely of obscenities, have flooded into the small video-game controller company at the center of this week's epic PR meltdown, according to the man who...
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Adweek.com's Top 10 Advertising Stories of 2011
Here are the 10 most-read advertising and branding stories published on Adweek.com in 2011: Fashion's Power 25 The people and platforms that truly matter in the world of style By Emma Bazilian The...
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AdFreak's Top 50 Stories of 2011: No. 10-1
It's been a crazy year on AdFreak. This week, we're counting down the 50 most-read stories on the blog in 2011 (not counting the features shown in the sidebar). We wrap today with the top 10. Thanks...
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'Blue Busters': Apple's 'Ghostbusters' Spoof From 1984
You want me to watch some company's goofy internal sales-meeting video from 1984 based on Ghostbusters? Thanks, but I'll pass. Wait, it's from Apple? OMG, lemme see! In October of that Orwellian year,...
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BP Accidentally Includes Anti-BP Protesters in Latest Ad
BP's public relations problems continue into 2012, as one of its "Look guys, we're helping!" ads features an accidental cameo by a group of anti-BP protesters, who are reminding Gulf Coast residents...
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