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Hot List Poll: Television
Some may still cling to distinctions like broadcast, cable and streaming video, but more and more consumers do not. Candidates for this year’s hottest shows include those from all three forms of...
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The Hot List Poll
Welcome to Fragmentation Nation. We’ve finally arrived, as this year’s Hot List Poll affirms. Technological opportunity has conjoined with the wandering, twerking consumer, his iPad and six-second...
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Heineken's Reality-Style Ads Are Raking In YouTube Views
Two guys—one Irish, one Polish—wake up handcuffed to each other on a remote island in the Philippines. No, it’s not the start of a bad joke. It’s actually a new ad for Heineken launching today. The...
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Digital Natives Are Getting Front Row Seats at Fashion Shows
Scan the most coveted seats of any hot Fashion Week show and you’re likely to see a similar mix of characters. There’s the fashion editor scowling from behind oversized sunglasses, the smiling...
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Aardman Crafts Haunting Trailer for Tom Stoppard's Pink Floyd Radio Play
IDEA: Aardman Animations is best known for the Plasticine cheeriness of Wallace and Gromit. But the British animation house turns to grimmer subject matter with a disturbing yet utterly rich and...
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Luxury Resellers Are Giving Fashion a Second Life
Jaclyn Shanfeld became a fashion entrepreneur by accident. After snapping off a heel while rushing to a bar mitzvah in Beverly Hills, she hobbled into the local Fred Segal boutique and panic-bought a...
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Facebook Just Can't Handle Boobies, Human or Otherwise
Whether they're nourishing babies or enriching the biodiversity of islands in the Indian Ocean, boobies just don't sit well with Facebook. The social network has long been criticized for its...
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GroupM, OMG Land Bulk of GSK's Media Business
GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare has consolidated the bulk of its global media business at units of GroupM and Omnicom Media Group after a review. In Japan, however, the market’s dominant player,...
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Ad of the Day: Robert Pattinson Finds a New Circle of Hell for Dior Homme
When the advertising gods cast my soul into hell as punishment for writing negative reviews, I'll probably be forced to watch a witless, artsy perfume commercial like this Dior Homme spot on an...
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President of Volvo Trucks Isn't a Daredevil. He Just Plays One in This Insane...
Claes Nilsson, the president of Volvo Trucks, talks up the Volvo FMX while standing—it is soon revealed—on a truck being suspended over the water by a crane in this crazy YouTube video, which calls...
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FTC Continues Crackdown on Auto Ads
Too good-to-be-true auto dealer ads drove the Federal Trade Commission to action, charging two dealers in Maryland and Ohio with falsely advertising the cost or discounts for vehicles. The FTC charged...
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Dunkin' Donuts Apologizes for Blackface Ad, but Not Everyone Is Sorry
Dunkin' Donuts in Thailand has just seen a 50 percent bump in sales on the heels of a new print, TV and Facebook ad campaign, and the CEO of the local franchise is crowing about the sugar rush. So...
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Pete Favat is Deutsch LA's New Creative Chief
Last time Deutsch LA looked for a chief creative officer, the agency found its pick in London. This time, the creative chief comes from Boston. Pete Favat, the longtime creative leader of Arnold in...
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OMD Names Monica Karo to Run U.S. Operation
Monica Karo is the new U.S. chief executive of OMD, replacing Alan Cohen, who is leaving the Omnicom Group agency after five years to launch a marketing services company. Karo, who had been the CEO of...
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Philip Morris Could Cause Ethical Problems for Publicis-Omnicom Merger
Any industry merger brings with it the potential for client conflicts when agencies work for competing marketers. But the pairing of Publicis Groupe and Omnicom creates a new philosophical wrinkle in...
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Wealthy Millennials Approach Shopping Differently Than Their Parents
Millennials are different from their parents, at least when it comes to spending. The Shullman Research Center surveyed adults with a household income of $75,000 plus on their spending plans and...
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Up-and-Coming Actress Frenches the Rainbow in Latest Weird Skittles Ad
Skittles continues to walk the line between cute and creepy. How successfully it does so is, of course, a matter of personal taste. This new spot from DDB Chicago, "Skittles Smile," sets my choppers...
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The Band Gets Back Together in NBC's Brilliantly Cheesy Promo for The Voice
We've all been there. Heartbroken, bearded and alone. This is place that some might call "the dumps," an unbearable place full of darkness, loneliness and misery. It's all because you've been without...
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