Man, cigarettes were awesome in the past, if these old ads collected by Stanford University are to be believed. They calmed your nerves so you'd stop humming nervously! They soothed your throat! They made you a movie star and helped you capture animals on your big game hunt! We don't know what tobacco was made of before the mid-80s, but no wonder everyone smoked. …
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Limited Brands to buy back $250 million in shares
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Limited Brands Inc. said late Friday its board authorized a buyback of up to $250 million in shares. Limited shares closed Friday down 1.4% at $12.76. The company has about 339.7 million shares outstanding.Market Pulse…
Real Ad Men Talk About Mad Men
Every week on AMC TV's Mad Men, the men and women at Sterling Cooper create and design retro 1960s ad campaigns, all while obsessively chain-smoking, drinking and womanizing. Looking for a little fact in the fiction of Mad Men, Wired.com is asking some real-world ad men and women to talk about the show’s realism and relevance to the advertising industry today. …
YouTube runs full-length CBS shows with 'traditional' TV ads
Making YouTube profitable is still the number one item on Google's list and running full-length show with a decent (or HD?) resolution is probably a good step to get there. YouTube announced that it has started serving such TV shows. This has several advantages: first, it makes YouTube useful to you and I in a different way. …
Report: Google Preparing iPhone-Specific Ads
Let's stereotype the average iPhone user, shall we? He's young, an early adopter, and not poor - an advertiser's dream. So, as a new report indicates that Google's gearing up to deal with iPhone-specific ads, the plan makes perfect sense. read more …
MN-Senate: Coleman Puts the Kibosh On Negative Ads
Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman has decided to pull negative ads, but is it too late to make a difference? (Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg News) The Minnesota Senate race -- already one of the most high-profile statewide contests in the country -- took another fascinating turn today when Sen. …
For Discussion @ The New Marketing Summit
Thank you all for your great suggestions re: a topic for my speech next week at the New Marketing Summit. Judging by the comments on my last post, and on Twitter, many of us are feeling pretty lousy about the doom&gloom in the financial markets, and so I got an outsized number of requests to …
Hilary Duff is so Not Gay
I'm not here today, folks. I'm off to see Wicked (yay!!) and then I have some birthday celebrations to do. I leave you with this PSA from Hilary Duff. So random. Although I do kind of want to start saying "that is so girl-wearing-a-skirt-as-a-top", don't you? …
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