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The iPhone Is Nice, but Could This Blocky, Utopian Rival Be the Best Phone in...
Smartphones are lovely, but they're also wasteful—not worth repairing when they break, quickly obsolete in a hyper-competitive market. But what if there were a different model, one where a phone's...
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Ad of the Day: Adult Swim Cooks Up a Great Faux Infomercial for Subway
Adult Swim is veeeery, very gingerly getting into product placement, and this first big ad from the network, for Subway, is a big win. It's hard to mesh Adult Swim's sensibilities with the innate...
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All Cars Are Women and All Women Are Cars
Our new video columnist Lauren Reeves gets under the hood of car advertising, and finds a woman's body.
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Second Lovely Ad for the iPhone 5C Suggests You Might Want to Play With It...
Say what you will about the iPhone 5C—the ads for it are gorgeous and bubbly. Apple this afternoon released the second 5C spot in the space of three days, this one a 55-second jaunt through another...
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Commercial Breaks Aren’t Twitter Breaks
While Twitter is rapidly changing the way we watch live television, a new study suggests that the social media giant isn’t necessarily having a corrosive effect on commercial deliveries. According to...
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All Cars Are Women and All Women Are Cars [Video]
In her second Mad Woman video column for Adweek, comedian Lauren Reeves takes a close look at the most powerful engine driving car advertising.
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Contenders Prepare for ADT Finals
Contenders are gearing up for final pitches in ADT’s three-pronged review, which spans traditional advertising, digital marketing and media planning and buying. Each piece of the business constitutes...
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Terrie Hall, Star of the CDC's Anti-Smoking Ad Campaign, Dies at 53
Terrie Hall, who starred in Arnold's brutal national anti-smoking campaign for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, died this week in North Carolina. The image of Hall hiding the ravages of...
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This Tech Startup Helps Businesses Reach Potential Customers With Apps
Specs Who Co-founders Brent Gilmore, CEO; and Katie Pietrowski, COOWhat Activity-based mobile ad platformWhere Co-working space in Back Bay, BostonHighFive is the company behind devkit software that...
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TV’s Royal Couple Lives On Thanks to Brand Endorsements
If there is one thing more impressive than the popularity of I Love Lucy—which ran for 179 episodes between 1951 and 1957—it is the popularity that endures long after the show ended. Actually, the...
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Ad of the Day: Alexa Ray Joel, Dhani Harrison Play Their Fathers' Songs for Gap
Talk about "pop" music. I'm both attracted to and repelled by this "Back to Blue" campaign for Gap—by ad agency Peterson Milla Hooks—featuring Alexa Ray Joel, daughter of Billy, and Dhani Harrison,...
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Mary Baglivo Heads Back to Northwestern
Mary Baglivo is going back to school. Baglivo, the former CEO of the Americas and New York office of Saatchi & Saatchi, is joining Northwestern University as vp for global marketing and chief...
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Ferrero, Cartoon Net Pledge to Limit Food Marketing to Kids
The government may not be able to regulate food marketing to children, but it may not have to. On the same day Michelle Obama used her position as First Lady to push companies to market healthier food...
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Adobe Shows You the Colorful, Weird, Scary, Brilliant Faces of 'The New...
Adobe just passed the 1 million subscriber mark for its Adobe Creative Cloud and is celebrating with this eye-catching spot from Goodby Silverstein & Partners—a salute to "the new creatives" in...
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See the New York City Ballet's Remarkable Film That Quietly and Beautifully...
Most of the brand talk around 9/11 this year was about marketers doing it wrong. But DDB New York and the New York City Ballet quietly did it right with a wonderful tribute called "New Beginnings,"...
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Arnold Lieutenants Take Broader Roles
Paul Nelson and Elliott Seaborn have been promoted to managing directors at the Boston headquarters of Arnold. Previously, Nelson and Seaborn were managing partners, heads of marketing for the office....
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World of Pure Manipulation: An Honest Version of Chipotle's 'Scarecrow' Ad
You know you have an advertising hit when the parodies start rolling in. Here is Funny or Die's take on the grand new Chipotle "Scarecrow" ad. The parody is just a joke, but it's not the first time...
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Cole & Weber United Adds a New Partner
Cole & Weber United has hired a new fourth partner. Elizabeth Rowny will assume the role of managing director, overseeing client services. She joins the WPP Group shop after four years at...
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Come Work at This Ad Agency in Cleveland, Even Though It's in Cleveland
Are you a fan of jorts? No matter. You will be wearing them daily after you move to Cleveland and start working at Brokaw. Two weeks ago, the 54-person agency rolled out geo-targeted banner ads on...
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NFL Kicks Off ‘Together We Make Football’ Campaign
A new promotional campaign from the National Football League kicks off during tonight’s Chiefs-Eagles game, and the star of the show is a 10-year-old phenom named Samantha Gordon. A tiny running back...
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