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Advertising on TV Test Card

From the creative media planning department: an ad for a mattress company on Brazilian TV's test card after the end ...

Need a business makeover?

We're involved with a project for national television show that's looking to profile a business in trouble and needs urgent advice. A business makeover, if you will. Here are the requirements: A small business, with around ...

Good coffee… It keeps you up all night!

Firstly, thanks for all the nice comments my loyal readers have posted in support of the recent situation I have sworn not to post about... So, I won't. However, I sincerely appreciate it. Moving ...

Jeromy Lloyd of Marketing Magazine discusses his work in writing and blogging about marketing, advertising and public relations

Marketing Magazine reporter Jeromy Lloyd compares and contrasts his work in writing and blogging about marketing, advertising and public relations ...

Online Ads: $21 Billion in the US, $45 Billion Global

In case you missed these figures this morning, two reports were released today pegging the size of internet advertising The Internet Advertising Bureau released their annual report this morning estimating the 2007 US internet ...

The Housing Bubble

Cookie cutter houses and neighborhoods are as common as cookie cutter Realtors in pant suits. They have mean handshakes and aren’t afraid to use them. A single sale can produce generous margins, enough ...

Obamarketing

From a purely marketing standpoint, Barack Obama has created the most sophisticated marketing campaign I've ever seen. I think there are some lessons advertising agencies can learn from this. It's ...

Fog Screen Comes to the US

Just got hit up with a press release about Fog Screen, a cool screen technology mentioned here last year, ...

Ditch Email: Face-to-face Meetings For The Win

Oh we so love e-mail. It’s fast, it’s a nice archive. We don’t have to get out of bed to send our first e-mail of the day (sometimes). But is e-mail the best way ...

Amazon’s Bestselling Advertising Books

Out of curiosity, I went through Amazon's bestseller list for the business category and plucked out all books related to advertising:Authenticity: What Consumers Really WantMade to Stick: Why Some Ideas ...

Top 10 Signs You Might Need a “Twittervention”

1. You type "@" before names in e-mail, blog comments and data fields.2. Your written communications have become extremely short.  140 characters or less.3. You change your Twitter avatar at least 3-5 ...

That guy who saved my life

I was talking today in a teleconference about how 'friends' aren't really friends, at least not in most social graphs. I'm not much inclined to do a heroic favor for a friend of a ...

Pfizer to Withdraw Lipitor Ads featuring Dr. Jarvik

Following up a story we ran a few weeks ago regarding Dr. Jarvik and the use of a body double, Pfizer today announced that they are voluntarily withdrawing all advertising featuring Dr. Jarvik. From ...

Failed Christmas Tree Air Freshener Scents

Old Man Crotch Bongwater Toe Jam K9 Whiz Ass Breath Fumunda Cheese Urinal Cake Mardi Gras Failed Dreams Hipster (Not to be confused with Sandalwood) Natty Dread...

Classical music enjoys brush with relevance

When the New York Philharmonic played a concert in Pyongyang this week, the ample media coverage talked about how an isolated corner of humanity ...

Renault: Everything is Sport

For most people in North America, memories of Renault consist of temperamental cars like LeCar and the AMC/Renault co-branded Alliance (both examples of model naming at it’s best). But Renault is alive and ...