FBX Is Turning Facebook Into One Of The Biggest Players In The Real-Time...
With Facebook Exchange, or FBX, Facebook officially entered the real-time bidding space, allowing the social network to bring its targeting capabilities and incredible reach to the fast-rising...
View ArticleWatch NBA Star Harrison Barnes Dunk Over One Of His Fans In This Golden State...
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:Golden State Warriors forward and former North Carolina standout Harrison Barnes dunks over a fan in the latest ad in Golden State's clever "We...
View ArticleApple Wants To Use Your Heart Rate And Facial Expressions To Figure Out What...
Apple is thinking about how it can figure out exactly how you feel at any given moment in order to show you the most relevant advertisements.In a patent application the company filed Thursday, Apple...
View ArticleMadison Avenue Is Moving To Wall Street
CEO John Barker of Barker DZP gets excited when he talks about his agency's new offices in downtown New York. His advertising agency moved into a penthouse on Broad Street last September, and recently...
View ArticleKia Parodies A Memorable 'Matrix' Scene In Its New Super Bowl Teaser
Laurence Fishburne's Morpheus character behaves more like a dad than his futuristic Zen master role from "The Matrix" in Kia's new Super Bowl ad teaser.It's a parody of the scene in which the film's...
View ArticleU2 Will Release A New Song For Charity At This Year's Super Bowl
U2 will release a new single in a Super Bowl ad for The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria co-sponsored by Bank of America and (Red), the nonprofit founded by U2 lead singer Bono.The...
View ArticleTerry Crews 'Pec Pops' To The Beat Of A Muppets Song In The New Toyota Super...
Toyota recently revealed that the actor Terry Crews ("Brooklyn Nine-Nine") and the Muppets will be starring in its upcoming Super Bowl ad.The new teaser, featuring Crews doing his signature "pec pop"...
View ArticleCall Of Duty Kidnaps Gamers From Their Friends And Family In A Cinematic New...
A bunch of men get violently kidnapped in the new ad for an expansion to "Call of Duty: Ghosts." But whether they're being dragged by motorcycles or suspended from a helicopter, they all greet their...
View ArticleHow Different Colors Are Convincing You To Buy Things
Have you ever thought about the effect the color of your landing page has on your users? With the average time on page decreasing from year to year (now 2.4 seconds), we have a limited amount of time...
View ArticleHow To See All The Companies That Are Tracking You On Facebook — And Block...
Facebook is a great utility if you want to stay in touch with friends and family, share photos, and see what other people are up to in their lives.It's free to use, of course, but that doesn't mean it...
View ArticleSodaStream Gets Its Super Bowl Ad Rejected For Once Again Attacking Pepsi And...
Last year, CBS forced SodaStream to remake its first Super Bowl commercial after facing pressure from Coke and Pepsi. The initial ad from the Israeli soda kit manufacturer directly attacked both...
View ArticleWhy Honda Edited Out Scenes Of Detroit Protesters From This New Ad [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:Hondaedited a new version of a recent, optimistic ad from RPA to remove images of people protesting in front of the Detroit federal courthouse...
View ArticleHyundai's Super Bowl Ads Feature Tender Family Moments, A 'Big Bang Theory'...
Hyundai's Super Bowl offerings this year are pretty traditional, with family-friendly humor and big-budget stunts and stars."Dad's Sixth Sense" is a series of vignettes in which a father saves his...
View ArticleYahoo's Former Chief Revenue Officer Joins Millennial Media As Its CEO (YHOO,...
Yahoo's former chief revenue officer Michael Barrett has joined mobile ad company Millennial Media as its new CEO. Barrett joined Yahoo in June 2012 during a period of turmoil in Yahoo's upper ranks....
View ArticleAd Legend Lee Clow Hints That Apple Is Plotting Its First Super Bowl...
Though Apple's seminal "1984" Super Bowl ad is widely credited as being one of the best to ever air, the technology giant has advertised in the Big Game just twice in the three decades since.However,...
View ArticleAudi's Super Bowl Commercial Is The Story Of A 'Doberhuahua' Apocalypse
Audi's Super Bowl ad is here, and it stars a dog with a bug-eyed Doberman head on a little Chihuahua body. This "Doberhuahua" quickly multiplies and lays waste to humanity.In the 60-second ad, a couple...
View ArticleCoke And Pepsi Trigger 'Ban' Of Scarlett Johansson's SodaStream Super Bowl Ad
Though actress Scarlett Johansson removes her bathrobe in sultry fashion in a YouTube video released Monday by SodaStream, that's not the reason Fox rejected the ad from appearing at this year's Super...
View ArticleInternet Memes Rule A Sordid, Futuristic City In Squarespace's Super Bowl Ad
The small website development service Squarespace is making its television commercial debut with a Super Bowl ad that imagines the Internet as a futuristic dystopia like the one in the movie "Blade...
View ArticleJohn Stamos' 'Full House' Co-Stars Keep Him From His Lady In This Dannon...
John Stamos and a hot date are into some kinky snacking in Dannon's Super Bowl commercial for its Oikos Greek yogurt, but his "Full House" co-stars Bob Saget and Dave Coulier step in to keep things...
View ArticleHere's Why Native Ads On Pinterest, Instagram, And Snapchat Could Be Huge...
Native-social ads — ads which are integrated into the social stream — are proving to be incredibly effective, getting tremendous clicks and shares. Soon, native advertising could account for more than...
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