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The Ladders only wants the worst monsters
Adweek/Adfreak | 8 hours 27 minutes ago
Fallon's new spot for the premium job sites shows small-fry monsters failing to wreak havoc on a cityscape.
'You kin' do it,' says a giddy Dunkin' Donuts
Adweek/Adfreak | 8 hours 27 minutes ago
Thankfully, there's a press release which explains that "kin' do" is literally part of the DunKIN DOnuts name.
for more info.AdFreak welcomes its evil twin, BrandFreak
Adweek/Adfreak | 8 hours 27 minutes ago
The Freak family of blogs today sprouted a second evil head: BrandFreak.
AdFreak welcomes its evil twin, BrandFreak
Adweek/Adfreak | 10 hours 16 minutes ago
The Freak family of blogs today sprouted a second evil head: BrandFreak.
Wake Up Ad Agencies! Cyrus Mehri is on The Loose Again
Adrants | 11 hours 17 minutes ago
On Thursday, January 8 at 11 AM, the NAACP and the civil rights law firm of Mehri & Skalet will announce the Madison Avenue Project, an initiative created to address the advertising industry's alleged "long history of widespread racial discrimination."
Is That Sand On My Page Takeover?
Adrants | 11 hours 43 minutes ago
While advertising-fueled website page takeovers are nothing new, they don't usually integrate quite so intricately as this one does for the Ford F-150 on the new ESPN site.
Bright Ones: Julia Roy Lives the Digital Lifestyle
Adrants | 13 hours 14 minutes ago
I met Julia Roy on Twitter over a year a go. I somehow saw a tweet or two from her and decided she was interesting enough to follow. But that wasn't all that caught my attention.
'You kin' do it,' says a giddy Dunkin' Donuts
Adweek/Adfreak | 14 hours 8 minutes ago
Thankfully, there's a press release which explains that "kin' do" is literally part of the DunKIN DOnuts name.
Organ Donors, Faux Sci-Fi Ads, Israel Tweets, NYT Sells Out to Cash In
Adrants | 14 hours 15 minutes ago
- The New York Times is pushing front page display ads. It's hard times, yo; deal with it.
You kin' do it, says hopeful Dunkin' Donuts
Adweek/Adfreak | 14 hours 21 minutes ago
Thankfully, there's a press release which explains that "kin' do" is literally part of the DunKIN DOnuts name.
Fighting Fraud and Saving Money
ADOTAS | 14 hours 28 minutes ago
Editor’s note: This is part of a series from Dianna Koltz, director of best practices and email marketing at Memolink, Inc., on how to use business standards to combat online fraud. ADOTAS EXCLUSIVE — The largest threat to online advertising is growing as the economy declines. More individuals will turn criminal, purchasing products or generating income through fraudulent means. Billions of dollars are stolen from businesses each year, and in 2009 companies will fight fraud with f...
Proof that Advertising is At Least as Informative as Fox News.
Adrants | 14 hours 41 minutes ago
One Chicago-based furniture store is happy to admit it sells more seats than Governor Blagojevich -- and at a better rate, to boot.
Online Users Grow; Quality Content Doesn t
ADOTAS | 15 hours 3 minutes ago
ADOTAS — With once-profitable newspapers and magazines slashing, burning and declining, you have to wonder where all the content will be coming from as more people go online. In a survey taken in the early part of December, 40 percent said they get most of their national and international news online, up from 24 percent in Septembe 2007, according to the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. The internet has surpassed all other media except television for that news with 35 p...
Will It Blend? Who Cares.
Adrants | 15 hours 16 minutes ago
OK so Tom Dickson has been hyping his Blendtc blender in online videos for some time now.
Crispin Porter + Bogusky and TBWA Worldwide Win Awards
ADOTAS | 15 hours 36 minutes ago
ADOTAS — Crispin Porter + Bogusky and TBWA Worldwide won Adweek’s advertising of the year awards. Crispin Porter + Bogusky, which won the top U.S. award, achieved a 15 percent increase in revenue over 2007. Its clients included Old Navy, Hulu, VW, Burger and of course Microsoft, which had the odd train wreck pairing of Bill Gates and Jerry Seineld. I thought the ads were ridiculous. Apparently that was the point. “The point of the Bill and Jerry stuff was to get people think...
If You Make Less Than $100K, You're A Monstrous Loser
Adrants | 15 hours 43 minutes ago
A new Fallon Minneapolis-created ad for job site The Ladders does a great job distinguishing itself from the rest of the pack.
E-Government and ROI
ADOTAS | 15 hours 50 minutes ago
ADOTAS — And in our last in a series of predictions for 2009, John Mahler, of Greater Than One, gazes into the future: “(This) will be a year of continued fragmentation in the digital space. Technologies will provide consumers with increased control over the content they receive and force marketers to work harder and smarter to engage consumers with relevant messages where, when and how they wish to receive them. The ascent of the digerati-empowered Obama administration would su...
Volkswagen Pushes Online; Others Will Follow
ADOTAS | 16 hours 5 minutes ago
ADOTAS — Online advertising might be one of the few areas that benefit from the imploding auto industry. Maybe it was the success of General Motors, Chrysler and Ford, which used advertising campaigns on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere to beg for a bailout, but now other automakers say they plan to move advertising from other places, such as television, magazines and newspapers, and push them toward online. Automakers want to spend less and target better, so buying advertising,...
The Ladders only wants the worst monsters
Adweek/Adfreak | 16 hours 43 minutes ago
Fallon's new spot for the premium job sites shows small-fry monsters failing to wreak havoc on a cityscape.
The Hottest Ads of 2008, Revisited
Adrants | 16 hours 43 minutes ago
Once again, it's time to look back at the past year and share with you the hottest, sexiest and raciest ads of the year.
The greatest fictional ads from sci-fi movies
Adweek/Adfreak | 16 hours 58 minutes ago
It will take a geekier geek than me to properly parse this fun-looking list of the top 25 fictional ads in sci-fi movies.
for more info.Burton's 'Playboy' snowboards: cool or not?
Adweek/Adfreak | 16 hours 58 minutes ago
The city council in Burton's hometown of Burlington, Vt., might ask the company to withdraw the boards.
Steve Jobs Admits Illness
ADOTAS | 16 hours 58 minutes ago
ADOTAS — Speculation, denials, prompting even more speculation, now ends, maybe, in a letter from Steve Jobs that was released today. “As many of you know, I have been losing weight throughout 2008. The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors. A few weeks ago, I decided that getting to the root cause of this and reversing it needed to become my #1 priority. Fortunately, after further testing, my doctors think they have found the cause — a hormone imbalance that has be...
Burton's 'Playboy' snowboards: cool or not?
Adweek/Adfreak | 17 hours 7 minutes ago
The city council in Burton's hometown of Burlington, Vt., might ask the company to withdraw the boards.
AppLoop Ends Mobile Advertising Service
ADOTAS | 17 hours 26 minutes ago
ADOTAS — We’ve been talking a lot about mobile advertising lately, so I was disappointed when I heard one interesting startup suddenly disappear. AppLoop (don’t bother going to the website, it’s down) was a platform that could track and advertise on mobile applications, using the iPhones GPS. The ad network was able to tell if a customer was close to an advertiser’s business and show ads connected to it. Apparently, the company ran into financial and legal issues...
The greatest fictional ads from sci-fi movies
Adweek/Adfreak | 17 hours 39 minutes ago
It will take a geekier geek than me to properly parse this fun-looking list of the top 25 fictional ads in sci-fi movies.
Ad Networks, Zapped by ESPN, Forbes, See Uncertain Future
ADOTAS | 17 hours 45 minutes ago
ADOTAS — In a bleak advertising landscape, ad networks might be the ones that will be either squeezed or shut out entirely. Internet advertising spending is expected to have a 6.1 percent increase this year, mostly driven by search ads. Good for Google, but bad for those in the display ad business. A smaller pie will mean a tougher stance on what brand names say are third parties leveraging unique content to devalue brand value. “The notion of selling somebody an ad based on a cli...
for more info.Don't throw those innards out with the trash
Adweek/Adfreak | 18 hours 3 minutes ago
Go ahead, dream about getting my spleen. Just let me finish using it!
Penis Cake Advocates for Fantasy Trophy Firm
Adrants | 18 hours 16 minutes ago
A wee Brooklyn-based shop called Fantasy Trophies ("Hand-made trophies worth bragging about") has launched a YouTube campaign, "Bragging Rites," that consists of nine videos which get progressively more retarded.
Don't throw those innards out with the trash
Adweek/Adfreak | 18 hours 28 minutes ago
Go ahead, dream about getting my spleen. Just let me finish using it!
for more info.This is your brain on D&M Publishers' books
Adweek/Adfreak | 18 hours 34 minutes ago
The target audience of brainy readers surely don't mind working an extra beat to take in the ads' subtle message.
This is your brain on D&M Publishers' books
Adweek/Adfreak | 19 hours 24 minutes ago
The target audience of brainy readers surely don't mind working an extra beat to take in the ads' subtle message.
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