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Friday, February 3 2012

Super Bowl XLVI: Commercial Success?

If you’re like me and are more jazzed about decorating chocolate covered strawberries to look like mini-footballs than about the big game, here is a list of some hotly anticipated things to look forward to when the ole’ pig skin is taking a breather.


Wednesday, September 14 2011

Stop Tweeting Sh%! and Buy This

They say art imitates life, but so does advertising. What does that mean when we live our lives online?


Friday, July 15 2011

TV’s Most Memorable Commercials

This year is the 70th anniversary of the first TV commercial, so we cast our glance back at the some of the most memorable ads of all time.


Wednesday, September 23 2009

The New Influencers: A Marketer’s Guide to the New Social Media by Paul Gillin

Paul Gillin writes with an almost feverish, utopian optimism about the "endless possibilities" of Web 2.0 that becomes irritating.


Monday, April 13 2009

Catalog by Robin Cherry

Absurd as they frequently are, catalogs have a good chance of surviving longer than the magazines of which they have long seemed so derivative.


Thursday, February 5 2009

Word-of-mouth advertising gets boost from networking sites


Monday, February 2 2009

Super Bowl ads: More gems than clunkers


Sunday, February 1 2009

Pressure’s on for big-game advertisers to bowl us over


Friday, January 30 2009

Super Bowl commercials still pouring it on


Wednesday, April 16 2008

Advertisers are eyeing your cell phone


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