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• "Mad Men" and Modern Morality

  Published: July 20, 2007, 1:22 pm

  Tags: Television, Advertising, Amc, Mad Men

  Hollywood's envisioning of the turbulent 60s has primarily relied on JFK, riots, Woodstock, and Vietnam as the defining images of that decade. Former "Sopranos" producer Matthew Weiner has instead dared to relentlessly and fearlessly examine every sacred cow of that era through the eyes of a group of charming, but sleazy ad execs in the AMC series

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• Maghag: Is A Pair of Jeans 'Ever' Worth $555? 'Marie Claire' Sure Isn't Saying!

  Published: July 26, 2007, 2:30 pm

  Tags: Denim, Gawker, Joanna Coles, Maghag, Marie Claire, Top, Truth In Advertising, We Re Grumpy

  Of all the women's 'service' magazines, Marie Claire seems the most well-meaning. Unlike its competitors, the magazine has none of those Jekyll & Hyde-type "Love Your Body... But Lose 10 Lbs. Fast"... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Return on Rodent Investments

  Published: July 23, 2007, 12:33 am

  Tags: Advertising Pr

  on July 13 renewed its advertising contract with Gus actually the Pittsburgh ad agency that created him, Marc USA. (See Advertising Week and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.) The Lottery's spokewoman, Chris Stambaugh, said the contract runs for four years, then has three optional one-year renewals. The Lottery spends about $32 million on

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• Blogathon: Vintage Advertising

  Published: July 28, 2007, 11:27 am

  Tags: Blogathon, Vintage Advertising

  booklet was this lovely advertising card, roughly the size of a standard postcard. It must date from the 1910s or early 1920s, although I couldn't find much about Symphony Lawn stationery online. The only things I found were two advertisements, one

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• Featured links for July 8th

  Published: July 8, 2007, 9:34 am

  Tags: Daily Links, Advertising, Apple, Arbys, Business, Clutter, Decluttering, Del Icio Us, Europe, Google, Greys Law, Hardware, Heh, History, Iphone, Laws, Links, Macintosh, Math, Merlinmann, Nostlagia, Telekinesis

  ads for a German job site. advertising, apple, arbys, business, clutter, daily links, decluttering, del.icio.us, europe, google, greys law, hardware, heh, history, iphone, laws, links, macintosh, math, merlinmann, nostlagia, telekinesis Featured 43f Job: Ruby/Rails Developers at ThoughtWorks Post your job to the 43f Job Board today, and get

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• Blogathon: Vintage Advertising

  Published: July 28, 2007, 4:13 pm

  Tags: Blogathon, Vintage Advertising

  This is a gorgeous old cardboard chocolates box which held some of the postcards I've been posting today. The brand isn't listed (unless "Assorted" is the brand name) so I had a little trouble dating it, but I suspect late 1910s or early 1920s. That would make sense, as my grandmother was a little girl during those years and I can see a girl

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• Blogathon: Vintage Advertising, Coca-Cola

  Published: July 29, 2007, 1:56 am

  Tags: Blogathon, Vintage Advertising

  more advertising! This was printed on the back cover of a large Colorado travel handbook. I know Coca-Cola used a lot of cherubs and ruddy-cheeked children in their older advertisements, but a cherubic businessman seems a tad silly. This ad is from 1939. Everyone has Coca-Cola collectibles. I don't drink soda anymore and yet I still

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• REM frontman poses half-naked for Marc Jacobs

  Published: July 29, 2007, 5:01 am

  Tags: Advertising, Celebrity, Designers, Marc Jacobs, Marcjacobs, Michael Stipe, Michaelstipe, Music, Rem

  Filed under: Designers, Celebrity Style"Everybody hurts..." when Michael Stipe poses with his shirt off.In what can only be described as a rash, unprovoked, highly insensitive attack on followers of the fashion industry, designer Marc Jabobs has chosen REM's lead singer as the featured model in his fall ad campaign. Maybe he's going for an older

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• The Odd Couple - Mikhail Gorbachev and Louis Vuitton

  Published: July 30, 2007, 3:13 am

  Tags: Advertising, Celebrities

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• Advertising: Intel Ad Might be Racist, but Boy Does It Make Me Want a Core 2 Duo

  Published: July 30, 2007, 3:45 pm

  Tags: Advertising, Gadgets, Intel

  One of Intel's latest ad's shows six athletic black dudes bowing down before a dorky white guy in khaki pants. Lousy, barely subliminal racist advertising or just plain lousy advertising? You be the judge. [Copyranter]

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• Advertisements in Video Games a Dubious Effort

  Published: July 30, 2007, 6:49 pm

  Tags: Gamer Life, Games Industry, Ads In Video Games, Advertisement, In Game Advertising

  we have to deal with in-game advertising? The answer is a tricky effort by both game developers and advertisers to hide the fact that there is advertising in the game, such as including Dole branded bananas in Super Monkey Ball and Nokia brand phones in Tony Hawk’s Project 8. When you get a game like Madden NFL, it’s pretty easy to

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• Lies Will Disguised: Intel Ad: Stupid? Or Stupid And Racist?

  Published: July 31, 2007, 11:20 am

  Tags: Advertising, Lies Will Disguised, Top

  94 years ago, liar H.K. McCann launched his NYC ad agency with the slogan "Truth Well Told." That was a big fat lie. Advertising copywriter Copyranter brings you instances of advertising lies and the...

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• Microsoft envisions invasive approach to targeted advertising

  Published: July 31, 2007, 1:55 pm

  Tags: Ads, Advertising, Big Brother, Bigbrother, Marketing, Microsoft, Patent, Patent Application, Patentapplication, Targeted Ads, Targeted Advertising, Targetedads, Targetedadvertising

  order to provide specialized advertising is a new concept or anything, but Microsoft in particular has been on the warpath of late in this very realm. On the heels of a similar ad-based patent application comes documentation that reveals plans to use "biometric sensors, cameras, remote controls, or other accessories" to detect and identify an

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• Microsoft to insert ads in its software?

  Published: July 23, 2007, 1:01 pm

  Tags: Advertising, Direct Advertising, Directadvertising, Internet Advertising, Internetadvertising, Microsoft, Msft

  making up some revenues with advertising instead of direct product sales may be in its future for some or all of its products.Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) seems to be stealing some plays from Google Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOG) strategy book. But if a consumer pays for that nice piece of Microsoft software, how well will any advertising be

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• There's a Use for Display Ads, After All!

  Published: July 31, 2007, 7:09 pm

  Tags: Online Advertising, Research

  Who knew display ads might actually be useful? A new study from Yahoo and comScore finds that online display ads produced 11% lift in dollars spent in in-store conversions. Search ads yielded a 26% lift in dollars spent. Most impressive, however, was the result from a combination of search and online display ads: a 83% lift in dollars spent in

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