Fashion Brand Uses Men's Lust For Female Nudity To Promote Itself Across...
Sometimes the solution to a marketing problem is staring you right in the face but for some reason you can't seem to bring it to life. Fred & Farid Shanghai, however, saw the solution. For their...
View ArticleThese Are The Ridiculous Ads Big Pharma Used To Convince Everyone They Have ADHD
There are currently 3.5 million American children on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medication, up from 600,000 in 1990.There were almost 16 million ADHD medication prescriptions...
View ArticleModel Gets An Extreme Holiday Makeover In Photoshop Stunt
In October, branded content producer and director Tim Piper made a time-lapse video showing how his model wife was photoshopped from her original appearance into a cover-ready figure with a thinner...
View ArticleSee How Real Fast Food Looks Shockingly Different Than It Does In Ads
The fast food advertising industry is dedicated to making items appear bigger and better. The blogger Dario D decided to compare major fast food product advertisements to reality. He posted the results...
View ArticleAd Exec With Cancer, Given 'Two Weeks To Live,' Posts Self-Written Obit On...
Mike Hughes, the former president of The Martin Agency, died today after a long and public battle with cancer. He was 65.Initially diagnosed with lung cancer in the 1990s, Hughes was given "two weeks...
View ArticleP&G Will Show Its 'Feminist' Pantene Ad In The US [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:Procter & Gamblewill expand to the United States its feminist ad for Pantene that went viral after being promoted by Facebook COO and "Lean...
View ArticleGlaxoSmithKline To Stop Paying Doctors In Major Marketing Overhaul
LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline will stop paying doctors for promoting its drugs and scrap prescription targets for its marketing staff - a first for an industry battling scandals over its sales...
View ArticleAnalyst: Facebook Video Ads Could Add $800 Million In Revenue In 3 Years (FB)
Facebook could see a revenue boost of up to $800 million over the next three years from the new video ads it announced today, couple with ads in Instagram which launched earlier this year, according to...
View ArticleA Choir Of Singers With Electronic Voice Boxes Shocked An Unsuspecting...
A large audience assembled to see the São Paulo University Choir at the city's Museum of Art. When the curtain opened on stage, they clapped as usual, but their smiles soon turned into looks of...
View ArticleVictoria's Secret, JCPenney Make Google's List Of The Most-Searched Retail...
With 2013 coming to a close, Google has released its annual Google Trends lists showing the people, places, and things searched for most often by users around the world.Here are the 10 retail and...
View ArticleAstonishing Chart Shows How The NFL Dominates TV Ratings
As confirmed by cold, hard consumer data, the television industry is under assault from a variety of entertainment options that have presented themselves with the advent of the internet.But while it's...
View ArticleInside The 'Creepy Uncle Sam' Anti-Obamacare Snapchat Campaign
Before Obamacare rolled out on Oct. 1, the Koch brothers-backed activist group Generation Opportunity campaigned to get uninsured young people to opt-out of the Affordable Care Act, and instead pay a...
View ArticleFacebook's Latest Acquisition Extends The Social TV War To The Gridiron [THE...
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:Facebookannounced it has acquired SportStream, a company that helps teams and media entities create real-time social experiences by integrating...
View ArticleThese Stats Show How Often You Curse At Cable TV Providers Over The Phone
While my own interactions with cable providers gave me the impression that getting a set-top box installed is a uniquely miserable experience, a new study indicates that satellite TV providers might...
View ArticleJerry Seinfeld Created These Intentionally Terrible Acura Ads For His Web...
Car commercials from the 1960s are delightfully cheesy by today's standards. In a 1966 Ford Mustang ad, for example, a peppy narrator touts a "sporty steering wheel" and a "289 cubic inch Cobra V8" and...
View ArticleThe Big Bang Theory's Kaley Cuoco Could Once Again Star In Toyota's Super...
Toyota has confirmed its spot in the upcoming Super Bowl XLVIII.The car giant will highlight the new Toyota Highlander in a 60-second spot, AdAge confirmed with Jack Hollis, vp-marketing for Toyota...
View ArticleGoogle Captures Some Of The Year's Most Moving Images In This Amazing...
Google has released its annual Zeitgeist video, and this year's packs in everything from Pope Francis to the Free Syrian Army.The video is not simply a collection of what Google deemed most important...
View ArticleNew French McDonald's Ads Use Amazing American Stereotypes
Americans are trained to expect the French to be rude, beret-wearing snobs who are too serious to lower their wine glasses and laugh. Cursory judgments of cultures are silly, and that's what makes...
View ArticleFacebook Now Has The 2nd Biggest Online Advertising Business [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:A new report from eMarketer finds that in 2013, Yahoo slipped from the second biggest online ad network to the fourth biggest after being...
View ArticleThis Guy Makes A Living Drawing Horrible Corporate Logos For $5 Each
In 2010, a graphic designer based out of California noticed a trend of local companies crowd-sourcing their logo design to anyone who'd draw them something for free.The designer, who goes by the online...
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