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JCPenney Forced To Deny Tea Kettle Looks Like Hitler (JCP)
JCPenney has officially denied that a tea kettle being advertised on a billboard on the 405 Interstate near Culver City, Calif., is intended to represent Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator during World...
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Victoria's Secret Eats Humble Pie And Re-Hires Kate Upton
She's "too obvious,""too blonde" and has the "kind of face that anyone with enough money can go out and buy."That's what Victoria's Secret casting director Sophia Neophitou, said of Kate Upton in an...
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Facebook Will Block Photos Celebrating Rape Following Ad Boycott
Facebook is in the midst of a PR crisis as brands including Nationwide and Nissan's UK divisions pull advertising over its policy towards photos glorifying rape and domestic violence.See the banned...
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This Video Ad Server Is Now Backed By $121 Million In Venture Funding
Videology, a video ad serving platform for advertisers, agencies and publishers, raised $60 million in new investment funding, reports AdExchanger:"When you have people offering to give you money, why...
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BuzzFeed Is Teaming Up With CNN On A YouTube Project [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:BuzzFeed and CNN launched a co-branded YouTube channel. SVP/CNN Digital K.C. Estenson told the WSJ that "by pairing the journalistic strength...
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Twitter Is Going Head-To-Head With Facebook In 'Custom Audience' Advertising
Lost in the shuffle last week when Twitter officially unveiled two new video ad products was Bloomberg's unconfirmed report that Twitter is also working on a "custom audiences" advertising...
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Victoria's Secret Used Kate Upton's Old Pictures Without Telling Her And She...
Yesterday, we noted how weird it was that Kate Upton would model for Victoria's Secret after the company's casting director had bad-mouthed the model, calling her "too obvious," and looking too much...
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Kellogg's Pays $4 Million Settlement After Claiming Frosted Mini Wheats Make...
NEW YORK (AP) — Kellogg has agreed to pay $4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over the marketing claims it made for Frosted Mini-Wheats.The company, which also makes Frosted Flakes, Eggo...
View ArticleHow Advertisers Can Survive As Americans Ditch Traditional TV
Television is going through a complete transformation—or several transformations at once. As viewers move beyond traditional broadcast models to consume media in new ways, marketers are scrambling to...
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See The 'Jewish Baby Bibs' Everyone Is Complaining About Before Amazon Takes...
An Amazon seller is advertising "Jewish baby bibs" that rely on stereotypes of Jews in a possible violation of the company's policy prohibiting products that "glorify hatred, violence, racial, sexual...
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What Mary Meeker Says About The State Of Advertising On The Web
Kleiner Perkins partner and former analyst Mary Meeker just released her in-depth look at the state of the web. This year, she devoted a huge chunk of her 100-page-plus slide deck to advertising, media...
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PBS Bets You Can't Tell If These Reality Shows Are Real Or Fake
If you can't beat them, mock them.Apparently that's the theory behind the new advertising campaign for WNET, the PBS station that broadcasts on channel 13 in New York, that launched this week.Posters...
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Young Mothers Are Denouncing This Pregnancy Prevention Campaign For Shaming...
In honor of National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month, The Candie's Foundation launched a celebrity-endorsed anti-teen Pregnancy campaign that is now getting harsh criticism for "shaming" young...
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A Bird Fungus Nearly Killed This Dallas Ad Woman So She Made A Campaign To...
Ever heard of Histoplasmosis?Neither had Publicis creative director Julia Melle when the disease almost killed her several years ago.That is why she and her colleagues at Publicis's Dallas office...
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The Incredible Story Of This Woman's Meteoric Rise From Receptionist To CEO
When Karen Kaplan, 53, first walked through the doors of Hill Holliday in 1982, she had no advertising experience, or even the shorthand skills to work as a secretary. The 22-year-old was placed at the...
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How Marketers Can Take Advantage Of Facebook's Graph Search (FB)
Facebook launched Graph Search earlier this year, to add a new "social" layer to the way people seek out information.Graph Search allows people to get answers to questions like, what are my friends'...
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BuzzFeed Has Advised The New York Times On Creation Of Sponsored Content [THE...
Good morning AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:BuzzFeed has advised the New York Times on how to create sponsored content. "Outside executives such as BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti were brought...
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Analyst Upgrades Facebook To 'Buy' On Word Of Video Ad Launch In July (FB)
Video ads could become the next billion-dollar business for Facebook, according to Jefferies & Co., which upped its rating on the stock Thursday.A recent decline in share price creates a buying...
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JCPenney's 'Hitler' Tea Kettle Is Completely Sold Out
When Reddit users pointed out that a JC Penney billboard featured a tea kettle that resembled Adolf Hitler, the thought was that trouble was again brewing for the oft-bumbling retail giant."Came here...
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Twitter Is Launching An Ad Exchange
Twitter will launch an ad exchange in which buyers will be able to "retarget" users with ads, according to Ad Age.The company will do so after taking advice from Facebook's FBX ad exchange partners. An...
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