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Does This Make Your Hair Stand on End?

Today's Advertising Age has a story about advertisers -- specifically the big carmakers -- pressuring magazines for "product placement." Never mind the euphemisms or the tap-dancing. What they're telling revenue-starved magazines is ...READ»

Kenan Samms

Innovation: Todd And’s POWER 150 Now by AdAge – Will This Change Things?

Does Advertising Age taking over Todd And’ Power 150 represent a coming of age of the blogosphere or just more advertising? The blogosphere has always had its lists – Top 10 reasons Why, 5 Ways to, 3 Tips for and The Power 150 ...READ»

Innovation: Todd And’s POWER 150 Now by AdAge – Will This Change Things?

Does Advertising Age taking over Todd And’ Power 150 represent a coming of age of the blogosphere or just more advertising? The blogosphere has always had its lists – Top 10 reasons Why, 5 Ways to, 3 Tips for and The Power 150 ...READ»

Innovation: Todd And’s POWER 150 Now by AdAge – Will This Change Things?

Does Advertising Age taking over Todd And’ Power 150 represent a coming of age of the blogosphere or just more advertising? The blogosphere has always had its lists – Top 10 reasons Why, 5 Ways to, 3 Tips for and The Power 150 ...READ»

Geico’s Gecko Gets Action

So here’s a question for you ROI vs creativity freaks out there: Is the growth in Geico’s market share --- the only player in the auto insurer category to achieve double digit growth over the past four years --- a function of its ...READ»

Get RED

It’s funny how giving gets controversial. Superficially the idea of donating money from a purchase to a charity seems pretty innocuous. And providing money or treatments for Africans suffering from AIDS truly saves lives. ...READ»

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The Celebrity Cell

Uh-oh. Is Jessica Simpson living in your brain? Researchers now know why we remember celebrity-filled ads. But do they work?READ»

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Big Tobacco, Little Pouches

Have you heard about the new tobacco pouches? I hadn’t either until I opened the latest issue of Advertising Age. The new pouches – called snus -- look like tiny tea-bag pouches and don’t require a spittoon. They just sit ...READ»

Advertising, Under Review

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Report from BlogWorldExpo: Blogging and Television

Highlights from 11.08.07 4 PM session: Blogging and Television @ BlogWorldExpo. I came to this session expecting a talk about the intersection of blogging and television, perhaps even some highlights on Vlogging (video blogging). It ...READ»

From Hip-Hop to Geek Wisdom

A couple of weeks ago I attended Advertising Age's The Idea Conference, the ad trade's respectable attempt to bring together a mash-up of interesting thinkers. The one day brain dump began with an exceptionally freestyle monologue by ...READ»

Kenan Samms
TECHNOLOGY   |  Comment

Technology: The New Normal?

You've got to ask yourself what the world is coming to when you've got to pony up $15 for your first checked bag. I wouldn't call it "nickel and diming" by any stretch of the imagination because, let's face it, those ...READ»

Mag Tires

According to the new edition of Advertising Age, the CFO of the Ford Motor Co. has ordered all employees to cancel all magazine and newspaper subscriptions paid for by the company. He also asked people to get refunds when ...READ»

Hitler, September 11th and Examples of Inept Brand Management

Companies are testing the boundaries when it comes to brand promotion in an attempt of find a balance between shocking and downright offensive. READ»

Web: Can A Social Network Save Business 2.0?

Yesterday, I completely missed the news. The New York Times's Brad Stone wrote about, "Ad Downtown Threatening the Survival of Business 2.0." Forbes Brian Caulfield had even covered the impending demise of the publication, "Bye-Bye, ...READ»

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Our Wow Project

A letter from the founding editors.READ»

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Five New Schemes to Save Old Media

Those working in the media, particularly old media, are constantly cognizant that current revenue models for media companies are not working. Those who aren’t were reminded just how fragile things are this week as magazine house ...READ»

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Dressed for Success

Will McDonald's staffers lose the attitude if they're dressed in hip baggy pants and hoodies instead of dismal perma-press duds? That's an $80M experiment the company says it's now willing to make. This week's Advertising Age ...READ»

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Idea Professionals, Beware of Microconcepting

I was watching Martin Lindstrom's "Brand Flash" this morning on AdAge.com when a thought struck me like a brick. Now I'm going to lob it at you. The AdAge segment was regarding BootB.com, an online marktetplace a la ...READ»

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Mobile Homing Signal

I wouldn't say that I've lost a lot of sleep over it, but it still kind of boggles my mind that Warren Buffett owns a mobile home company. In my mind, stereotypes admitted, mobile homes are all about the downtrodden, tornadoes, the ...READ»

Mel Karmazin's Greatest Hits

As XM and Sirius await to see if their $13 billion merger proposal passes muster with the FCC (which specifically prohibited such a thing when it awarded the two companies their licenses), let's take a look back and see what Mel ...READ»

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Luxury's Long Tail

Thanks largely to the deluxe-uccinos at Starbucks and the Michael Graves teapot at Target, it's now an article of faith that luxury is within reach of nearly every man, woman and child. But it also raises an enduring question: When a ...READ»

Mad Ave's Latest Fetish: Intellectual Property

"Gentleman Callers" candles. "Fat Pig" chocolates. "Dogmatic" gourmet hot dogs. It's no surprise this slew of new tongue-in-cheek brands come straight from the front lines of manufactured hipness: ad ...READ»

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Nitro's 'Best Job' Campaign Wins Cyber Lions Grand Prix in Cannes

One of the buzziest campaigns we've seen in a long time tops three categories in the advertising awards festival.READ»

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Extra! Extra! See How E-News Services Rate

The race for readers is on.READ»