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• May 03 Bank of America's sponsorship of "The Story of Us"
• March 03 Inside the OK Go / State Farm Deal
• February 05 The Onset of Augmented (Hyper) Reality
• February 04 Seth Godin on being indispensable
• January 13 Consumers Don't Dig Apple iTunes
• December 31 Dear Levi's. Please practice. Don't preach
• November 17 We Like Chocolate and Beer. Cigarettes, Not That Much
• November 03 Blu Dot's 'Real Good' Marketing Experiment
• October 30 Esquire's 'Ultimate Bachelor Pad' brings in ad dollars
• October 16 CMO Poll: Social Media Better Done In-House
• October 15 Deutsch Takes Over Lowe: Done Deal
• October 14 Deutsch Likely To Swallow Lowe at IPG
• October 13 NBC Heroes Saved By Dubious DVR Data
• October 12 Are Brand Managers Dead?
• October 08 Minute Maid Boost Taps The Energy Drink Shelf
• October 05 CMO Poll: Autos, Airlines and Banks Equally Tough Challenges For Marketers
• October 01 Chrysler Is Naming New Ad Agencies for Brand Makeovers
• September 28 CMO Club Poll: Retail Can Still Trump Trust Efforts
• September 24 ABC Cuts Back On Commercials For New Shows
• September 23 AOL CEO Tim Armstrong: "Don't Congratulate Me."
• September 23 Nielsen Hooks Up With Facebook for Ad Effectiveness
• September 22 Mountain Dew: When limited edition equals 1.5 million
• September 19 Airline Fees Run Amok--Paging Congress
• September 14 GM's "Best Car Wins" Ads Need to Move On Fast from Chairman
• September 14 CMO Club Poll: CMO's Want Product Marketing
• September 09 Volkswagen Going To Next Round With Ad Agencies
• September 09 Images of Hitler and 9-11 Haunt Some Ads
• September 08 Leo Burnett Scores AOL Reinvention Job
• September 07 Advice For VW, GM, Chrysler In Tapping New Ad Agencies
• September 07 CMO Club Poll: CMOs Remain Closest to CEOs, But CFOs Need Attention
• September 02 Airline Industry Needs a Govt. Czar to Clean It Up
• September 02 Chrysler's Search for New Ad Agency Help Is On
• September 01 Danger: It is Fashionable To Bash Facebook and Twitter
• August 27 Advertisers Are the "Mad Men:" Restless With Their Ad Agencies
• August 26 GM: "We Don't Need No Stinking Badges"
• August 25 Ford Fans Take Ford Name After Wedding
• August 24 VW Ad Review: Only Part of the Chaos Over Car Accounts in Ad Land
• August 20 CMO Poll: Marketers Want Traffic To Homepages More Than Third-Party Sites
• August 17 Volkswagen Ad Account In Review: Agency Plum
• August 14 Yes Twitter: Digital Tools Required For CMO Jobs Today
• August 11 GM 230 For Chevy Volt Shows Power of Great Headline
• August 10 Major League Baseball and Roku Strike a Deal to Stream Games
• August 06 The Next Target for Advertisers? Your Office Cubicle
• August 06 CMO Poll: Google Has Little To Worry About from Yahoo/MSN
• August 04 Knob Creek Sends Brand Message in Empty Bottle
• July 31 It's Hobbes Versus Locke in 21st Century Ad Biz
• July 29 CMO Poll: Starbucks Right To Try New Format
• July 28 Viral Media Brings Sanity To Ad Biz
• July 27 Ten Ad Agency Survival Tips for the Great Recession
• July 23 CMO Club Poll: New Frugality Is Fleeting
• July 23 New York Marketer Gives Way To Midwest Mindset
• July 22 At New GM, Ad Agencies Could Get Second Life
• July 22 The Big Idea: Grill Your Frog
• July 21 Marketing Lessons From The Weinermobile
• July 18 America Happiest Families
• July 17 Fast Food Menu Calorie Counter Should Be National Law.
• July 17 Ad Agency Life: Keeping Up Positive Energy Rules
• July 16 Poll: McDonald's and Google Top P&G for Brand Mgt.
• July 15 Ad Agency Life: The Time is Ripe For Micro
• July 13 Shopping and Selling in a Post-Consumer World
• July 13 What McDonald's, HP, Virgin America, and Walmart Have in Common
• July 08 Twitter Dominates CMO Social Network Plans
• July 08 Mobile Devices' Share of Eyeballs Climbing
• July 07 Six Questions That Can Improve CMO Job Security
• July 07 Tanqueray Rolls Global Campaign
• July 06 CMOs Focused on Reaching "Influencers" Via Social Media
• July 01 CMO Club: GM Should Keep Its Name
• July 01 Some Say Obama Campaign Shouldn't Have Won at Cannes
• June 30 U.S. Supreme Court Helps Future of Ad Skipping
• June 26 Sarah Silverman Obama Ad Can Teach Marketers How To Win
• June 24 Suzuki's Quality Gain and Audacious Ads May Finally Boost Respect
• June 18 VW, Cadillac, Chevy, Ford and Their Love of Ad Cougars
• June 18 Britney Likes McDonald's Too
• June 16 P&G Goes Viral With Tampax Videos
• June 15 EX GM Exec Says the Automaker Has Toxic Marketing Culture
• June 12 Consumers Looking To Food Inc. For Fresh Food?
• June 10 Stella Artois Shows Good Storytelling: Too Bad it's a Euro Ad We Don't Get Here.
• June 08 Madison Ave. Blues: The Year The Media Died.
• June 04 Burger King's Home Shopping Parody Works To Break Clutter
• June 03 Al Gore Says Agencies Should be Wary: Should They Listen?
• June 02 GM's Coming Out Ad: Chapter 1
• June 01 Some Advertising Fallout and Benefits at GM To Come
• May 22 First Ketel One TV Ad is Insulting and Lame
• May 21 Upfront Recap: Networks Play it Safe
• May 20 ABC's Meat and Potatoes Upfront
• May 19 Fox Kicks Off Upfront Week
• May 19 Credit Card Companies Preparing To Wage War On Their Cardholders
• May 19 McDonald's Is Growing on America
• May 15 New 2010 Prius Ad Super Bowl Worthy in May.
• May 13 VW Turning To Old Icons To Take on Rivals
• May 07 KFC + Oprah = I Don't Get It
• May 06 McMiley Cyrus
• May 01 Ford Image Goes Way Up For Not Taking Taxpayer Money
• April 30 A Swine Flu By Any Other Name...Won't Fly
• April 29 Sexist Cookware Ad A Very Clever Viral Ploy
• April 28 Twitter is a Fad
• April 28 Fox's Dis of Obama is Okay This Time
• April 28 IT Took Recession and Looming Bankruptcy for GM To Make Right Brand Moves
• April 27 Swine Flu: One Man's Pandemic is Another Man's Marketing Opportunity
• April 24 Gatorade Sales Plummet
• April 23 Anatomy of a Flash Crisis: The Apple iPhone "Baby Shaker" Fiasco
• April 23 Ford CEO Tries Out Twitter and YouTube. But To What Effect?
• April 22 Musicians Feel the Touch of Cotton, Cold Hard Cash
• April 22 Consumers Blame Mad Men for Recession
• April 20 Vitamin Water 10 Ad Goes Too Far
• April 16 Madden’s Still In The Game
• April 16 Domino's Management Responds To Youtube Fiasco
• April 15 Domino's Pizza Youtube Video Lesson: Focus on Standards, and Pack Your own Lunch.
• April 14 New U.K. Ad For Honda Reprises Garrison Keillor
• April 10 NY Anti-Smoke Ad From Australia Lights Up Controversy
• April 03 Tropicana Fiasco From Arnell is Gift That Keeps Giving
• April 01 GM May Need To Think About Killing Its Brand
• March 30 Sex Sells for Hardee's After Success With Carl's Jr.
• March 25 BMW's "Art Cars" roll into Grand Central Station
• March 25 Ad Spoofs Kick The Butt of Real Ads
• March 19 BMW Mini + Airstream = Mistimed?
• March 19 Panera Bread's Apple Strategy
• March 18 More Piling on Arnell's Tropicana Fiasco.
• March 18 Dunkin Donuts: Name Your Donut
• March 16 Why Won't the Internet Stop Making Fun of Me?
• March 13 What the Weird Retail Sales Figures Mean For Marketers: Economists Weigh In
• March 13 Cramer's Brand Substantially Dented. Will It Bounce Back with the Market?
• March 12 AOL Snags Armstrong From Google
• March 12 Lay's Made For Each Other Ads: No Need For A Double Dip
• March 05 Hewlett-Packard CMO Michael Mendenhall Wants A Corporate Version of Twitter
• March 05 Consumers Should Know How Much of Their Personal Data is Out There
• March 04 First Day of 4A's Media Conference Concerns Those Pesky Internet Ads
• March 03 Ford Fusion Hybrid Ads Going For Halo
• March 02 Does Brand Strength Lead to Better Returns?
• February 27 Arnell Strikes Again: Orange You Glad You Hired Him Tropicana?
• February 24 Miller's One-Second Super Bowl Should Make Ad Makers Quiver
• February 20 "Oscar" Campaign for Frito's TrueNorth Snacks Taps "Yes We Can" Inspiration
• February 19 Goodbye, Bud.Tv, and Good Riddance
• February 18 Do Americans Prefer McDonald’s or Starbucks?
• February 18 SiriusXM Should have Filed Chapter 11
• February 10 Lays Ad: It's Just Chips. Really!
• February 06 Fast Food's Newest Combo Meal: Cold Stone and Tim Horton's
• February 04 Teleflora's Super Bowl Ad Got Best Online Buzz for the Buck
• February 03 Two Million People Swarm Denny's for a Grand Slam Breakfast
• February 02 Inane Doritos Ad Wins Super Bowl Poll. Do we smell a rat?
• February 02 Monday Morning Quarterbacking: Memos To Super Bowl Advertisers 2009
• January 29 On Facebook: Who Are Those Guys?
• January 28 Starbucks Cuts More Stores and Workers Amidst Recession and Lower Earnings
• January 28 Bring On The 3D Ad for Super Bowl Sunday
• January 21 New Pepsi Ads Hit and Miss As They Try and Ride Obama's Ascension
• January 15 Danica Patrick Does Godaddy.com
• January 15 No Such Thing As Corinthian Leather in the Cordoba
• January 09 Cyrus Mehri's Madison Avenue Attack Plan
• January 08 Goldman Sachs Hiring Marketing Chief
• December 31 "Best Message Creation of 2008": The Winner is Will I. Am
• December 31 Cable Boomed in 2008 Thanks to Obama
• December 30 New Year Diet Ads: Is Oprah Credible Any More at Selling Diet Remedies?
• December 29 Burnett Food Bank Ad Warmed My Heart
• December 18 A Detroit "Orderly Bankruptcy" Would Require Monumental Marketing Effort To Work
• December 15 JC Penney DogHouse Hits Right Viral Mark
• November 28 GM Pondering Brand Cuts
• November 24 Get Your Free Dr. Pepper Today
• November 12 J. Crew Turns Michelle Obama Into An Unofficial Spokesmodel
• November 05 Obama Great For Newspapers
• November 04 Ranty Denis Leary Is New Voice of Ford Trucks
• November 04 Memo to David Brooks: Obama is a Boomer
• November 04 New Starbucks Ad From BBDO: A Coffee Break From Political Fighting
• November 03 MediaVest Projects a Barack Obama Win Will Be Official at 11pm Tuesday Night
• November 01 An Open Letter To CNN's Amy Holmes
• November 01 Wieden & Kennedy Cries "Ripoff"
• November 01 NRA's Last Gasp Against Obama
• October 30 Obama Video: It Could Be Morning in America.
• October 29 GM's Mounting Brand Muddle--Sayonara Chrysler?
• October 29 Pictures You can't hardly Make Up
• October 28 "Redistribution" is This Year's "I Voted For It Before I Voted Against It"...Almost
• October 27 Who's behind the "Wassup 2008" Obama ad? Not Budweiser.
• October 27 The Budweiser "Wassup" Guys' Obama Ad is Dark and Wickedly Funny
• October 24 New Pro-Obama Video: Conservatives For Obama
• October 22 This Latest Windows Ad? It was Shot Using Macs
• October 20 Ad Age Picks Winner---Obama.
• October 17 HP's Michael Mendenhall: No "Course Correction" Planned Despite the Recession
• October 17 Bank of America Gives Some Clues on How It Will Market to Scared Consumers
• October 17 Meet The Real "Joe The Plumber"
• October 17 Here at the ANA, Very Smart People are Ignoring the Economy
• October 16 Joe The Plumber---No Mas
• October 16 McCain Finally Goes Positive
• October 15 Watching Pricing In The New Recession
• October 14 "Mad Men" Update
• October 14 The Recession Upon Us: What Are We Doing?
• October 10 McCain Ads: All Through the Ayers Haze
• October 08 Nashville Debate: "That One:" The Line That Caught On
• October 08 Obama Outspending McCain 3-to1 in Ads, and The Spread Could Widen.
• October 08 Fox: Hannity a Journalist? Laughable.
• October 07 Crispin racks Up Old Navy
• October 07 Hyundai" What Recession?
• October 01 McDonald's Is Poster Brand For Credit Crunch
• September 29 Sirius XM Should Be Able To Get Ratings
• September 27 Catalog Choice signs up Williams Sonoma, L.L. Bean, and More
• September 24 Texting Surpasses Calling Among Cell Phone Subscribers
• September 22 Seinfeld/Gates Ads Not "Pulled"
• September 18 Check Out the 2008 Best Global Brands
• September 17 Dueling Campaign Wall Street Ads: The Lesson is "Keep It Simple, Stupid."
• September 15 Microsoft Gates/Seinfeld Ads: Storytelling That's Catching On.
• September 13 McCain Camp: If It Sounds Like It Could Be True, Then It Must Be
• September 10 EU Wants Women To Feel Empowered To Scrub Floors
• September 10 Advertisers Trying To Get A Head
• September 08 Obama Camp Uses The "L" Word To Describe Palin Claim
• September 08 GOPers Beat Obama in TV Ratings: Helped by Timing and NFL
• September 08 NBC News Management Guilty of Brand Mismanagement and Neglect
• August 29 38 Million Watch Obama
• August 29 Kellogg Beats GM To Phelps
• August 28 MSNBC Misses Tim Russert
• August 27 McCain Ad or Video Press Release?
• August 21 Obama Ad Finally Draws Real Blood From McCain
• August 21 Are Burger King Ad Men Really Mad Men?
• August 21 Microsoft's Turn To Seinfeld May Need Virus Protection
• August 20 Modernista!'s Anti-Gun Ad Is A Hummer Dinger
• August 19 Al Gore's "We" Advertising Needs a Makeover
• August 18 Geico Cavemen: Just Let Them Be Neanderthals.
• August 07 Papa John's Crop Circle: Now That's Engaging
• August 06 Obama Not Immune To Overstatements in Ads
• August 05 McCain Takes Negative To Olympic Levels
• August 04 Loving Mad Men In Season 2
• August 01 Life Is Improving: Schlitz Is Back
• August 01 No Racism in McCain Spears "Celebrity" Ad
• July 31 "No Conversations" About Troop Ad: McCain Camp--BND's Further Thoughts
• July 31 McCain Campaign Denies Preparing Ad That Would Have Bashed Obama Had He Visited Wounded Troops
• July 30 McCain Waging Effective War of Words.
• July 29 RIP Scrabulous: Trademark Law Rears Its Ugly Head.
• July 28 The New Normal: McCain's Desperate Ad Hours
• July 28 Uncle Sam's Breast Obsession.
• July 23 John McCain': Whose Brand Is It Anyway?
• July 21 Apple Censors Mad Men Ad
• July 17 Red Cross Logo Played Part in Colombian Hostage Rescue
• July 15 Starbuck's Vivanno A Good Addition, But Hardly Unique
• July 15 New Yorker Editor David Remnick Could have Learned From Imus on Obama Cover
• July 14 Men Making Asses of Themselves With Prep-H
• July 11 McCain Reaches Out To Hispanics With New "God's Children" Ad
• July 10 Skechers Signs American Idol's David Cook
• July 08 McCain's Summer of "Love" Ad: Pass the Ammunition. But hold the Hope.
• July 08 Holiday Inn Express Smart Show Comes Back for Second Season
• July 07 InBev Playing Hardball with Budweiser: Fire The Board
• July 07 Is Bill Gates Pro McCain?
• July 07 The DNC and RNC Websites Both All About Obama
• July 04 Starbuck's No Longer Can Afford To Be The Neighborhood Coffee Shop
• July 01 Starbucks to Close 600 Stores - Will It Be Enough?
• June 25 Even GOPers are Hoping To Ride Obama's Coattails
• June 24 It's Uptown Saturday Night for Imus...Again.
• June 23 JCPenney Debuts 'Teenage Sex' ad - Or Someone Else Debuts It For Them?
• June 23 Celebrities Play God -- and So Can You
• June 19 First Obama Ad Battles Elitist Tag
• June 18 Moveon.org's Opening Ad Against McCain Rough. But Not as Rough As It Will Get.
• June 18 Daisy Girl Revealed.
• June 17 Obama Problem With Latinos: False Wisdom?
• June 17 "Daisy Ad" Tony Schwartz Dies. But Who's That Girl?
• June 16 Russert Coverage Ups and Downs
• June 11 Barack Obama Smokes - But What Brand?
• June 09 The Furor Over Online Polls
• June 09 McCain Golf Gear Shares Equal Billing With "Strategy?"
• June 06 McCain Doubling Down On Military Service
• June 06 McCain's Town Hall Meeting Invite is Cagey
• June 06 Philly Inquirer Fake Ads May Mark The End of The Newspaper Model
• June 03 Malkin Not Just Wrong...But Lazy. That's What Is Offensive.
• June 02 McCain's Ad Spending Now Will Come Back To Haunt Him in October
• May 28 Dunkin Donuts Move To Pull Ad Is Cowardly and Ridiculous
• May 27 Olympic Sponsors Out of the Human Rights Hot Seat
• May 27 Memo to American Airlines: You Need a PR Transfusion
• May 22 Some "Idol" Time Shifters Up In Arms
• May 19 An Expert’s Analysis of Dove’s Campaign for “Real” Beauty
• May 19 Dove’s Photography Folks Simply Couldn’t Help Themselves?
• May 19 Meet The Press's Last Ad Pod: The Dead Zone
• May 19 American Idol: Ratings Down. Commercials Up. Contestants Lame
• May 19 Brand Tags Fun, But Not Exactly Useful
• May 09 Dove: Deny! Deny! Deny!
• May 08 Brand Matters: The Whining About Wine Is Intoxicating
• May 07 Surprise! Dove's "Campaign for Real Beauty" ads actually kind of fake
• May 06 Big Celebrity, Great Headline, and Hey, Even a Local Angle
• May 06 Tumi's Cheap Shot at Green Marketing
• May 05 Stop SwiftBoating Latte
• May 02 CBS Radio Plans its Own Pandora (And It's Not Last.Fm)
• May 02 Nanhi Kali Shows How Net and Social Networking Can Pay Off For Non-Profits
• May 01 RNC Slimes a DNC Anti-McCain Ad
• May 01 Newsweek Has Coffee With Rance Crain---Slurp
• May 01 P&G Outsourcing Media To AFA?
• April 29 Google's Schmidt: "We're not creative. We're sort of boring."
• April 29 Advertising Agencies: We're Good Enough, We're Smart Enough, and Doggone it, People Like Us!
• April 24 The Youtube Election Gaining Steam
• April 23 Recession has Finally Hit Latte Land
• April 23 Even McCain Doesn't Want A Pastor Ad War
• April 22 Charmin TP: Is Too Much Info the New Standard?
• April 21 MSNBC Reverses Course on Gun Ad
• April 17 Skyy Vodka is Playing Hillary To Absolut's Obama.
• April 16 MSNBC Won't Run Bloomberg's Gun Law Ad
• April 15 Breaking Down Clinton's and Obama's New Ads: Remember when this was supposed to be "An Embarrassment of Riches"?
• April 10 From TV to the Web with American Idol
• April 08 Starbucks "Everyday": Can We Afford That?
• April 08 Absolut Boycott: Absolut Nonsense.
• April 07 Absolut Nonsense
• April 03 John McCain is Now Hearing Bells: AUGH!
• April 02 Clinton Ad: Will Somebody Answer The Damned Phone!!
• April 02 Absolut Sale Jacks Likely Price of Stoli
• April 01 Walmart's Bad Week
• March 28 New McCain Ad Recycles POW Video
• March 28 Macy's Star Studded Ad Seems Like A Short-Term Strategy
• March 26 Mitsubishi Ad Account Short of Being "Red Meat."
• March 24 The Obama-Clinton Fight: It's 3AM. And Nothing Good Happens After MIdnight, Or In This Campaign.
• March 24 When Agencies Win Awards After They Lose The Account
• March 24 Starbuck's Strength--Distribution
• March 20 Will Schultz's new plans bring back Starbucks' magic?
• March 17 New Pontiac Ad Is An Improvement for a Brand That Needs a Roadmap for Where It's Going.
• March 13 Memo to Coke: Great Coke TV Spot in Finland. Air In The U.S.
• March 10 Clinton's Veep Offer To Obama Seems A Bit Costanza
• March 10 527s Gearing Up Ad Machine
• March 07 Attention Ad Execs: What Will You Do To Combat ADxiety
• March 03 Clinton Goes Decidedly Negative A Day Before The New Super Tuesday
• March 03 Ad Exec Tilley's Suicide Does Not Indict Blogs, But Should Spotlight Workplace Depression.
• March 03 He's Baaaaaaaack. Peter Arnell Shakes His Stuff at Chrysler.
• February 27 Crispin Downloads Microsoft.
• February 25 ABC Trying To Thwart DVR Use. The Effort has About As Much Chance of Success as a Chris Dodd Presidential Comeback.
• February 22 Inside an Ad Agency Youtube Parody of "A Few Good Men."
• February 22 Mark Penn's Cynical "Microtrend" View Under The Microscope In Clinton's Fading Campaign
• February 19 Is It Me? Or is JC Penney/Lauren's American Living God Awful
• February 15 Viral Videos This Political Season Getting Better All The Time
• February 11 Media Spend, Messaging and Drama Favors Dems in Convention Battle
• February 07 NFL Mr. Oboe Rated Top Super Bowl Ad by IAG
• February 05 Two Super Bowl Ads I Should Have Graded Better
• February 05 Obama Video Best Ad Yet. Pity It Didn't Run in the Super Bowl
• February 04 NY Giants Super Bowl Victory Breaks Audience Record
• January 31 Under Armour Super Bowl Ad Reaches For the Sneaker Wall
• January 25 White House Drug Ad Aims At Parents on Super Bowl
• January 23 Why Starbucks' $1 Coffee means much more than cheap caffeine
• January 22 Does Rachel Ray Have Some Splainin' To Do?
• January 22 Ikea Youtube Vids Need Actual Humor To Work
• January 22 Goodby Silverstein, Tribal DDB win Agency of the Year Honors
• January 18 Audi Makes Viewers An Offer They Can't Refuse for Super Bowl
• January 15 Advertisers Not Worried About Writers' Strike?
• January 11 Howard Schultz's Second Act Is Burnishing His First
• January 09 On Polls and Focus Groups and Politics
• January 07 Disruption: Inviting Wins Out Over Selling in Iowa and N.H.
• January 04 Facebook Champs Win Iowa
• January 03 Two-buck Huck
• January 03 As Dusenberry Passes, the Mad Men Generation Gets Smaller.
• January 02 Gmail ads are kind of funny, creepy
• January 02 When It Comes To Service, Definitely Think Local
• December 19 Edwards and Huckabee's Latest Ads Show Value of Direct Speaking
• December 11 Saturn is Lynchpin To GM's Green Imaging
• December 06 Brand Defiance at McDonald's
• December 04 Scorsese Wine Film a Sparkling Ad
• December 03 Facebook Has Some Bugs to Work Out In its Ad Plan
• December 03 Imus is Back. Pols and Brands Followed.
• November 21 Publicis is Restructuring
• November 21 Best "Marketing to Millennials" tips I've seen yet
• November 20 Humor in Political Ads Doesn't Really Work
• November 19 Giuliani Untested, Especially in Ads
• November 19 I Don't Think Barry Diller Gets It
• November 16 Bad Boy Imus Readies Comeback
• November 15 Word of Mouth: Madison Ave.--Are You Listening?
• November 14 When Candidates Give Up, The Ads Can Be Fun
• November 12 Online Reviews Can be Good Up To A Point
• November 09 What Exactly Is New?
• November 02 Facebook Marketing. It Can Be a Good Thing.
• November 01 Why I’m not volunteering to fight in the Format War
• October 30 Using Bad News To A Brand's Advantage
• October 29 GM's Hummer Conundrum
• October 24 Canadian Club Digs Deeper For Meaning
• October 19 Hershey's "White Sheep" Brand--Scharffen Berger
• October 16 Subaru To Move $150 Million Account to Carmichael-Lynch
• October 15 The Al Gore Brand Story Taking Shape
• October 13 More ANA: Al Gore gives his first speech after winning the Nobel
• October 12 Liveblogging: A-B Marketer Defends Beer, but not Bud.TV
• October 12 Live blogging: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: "We're the pig."
• October 12 Live Blogging: Gutenberg, Pasteur, and uh... Leo Burnett?
• October 12 ANA Day One: Hey Eddie W., Natalie G., Jenn B. and Courtney R., you’re famous!
• October 10 Steinbrenner: A Study in how not to handle a personal brand.
• October 08 Plastic Water Bottles: How many will just say No.
• October 04 Godiva Campaign Not Exactly Mmm Mmm good.
• October 02 The Long Tail of Celebrity Endorsements
• September 28 Chevron Ad Has Lots To Compete Against
• September 27 Nielsen Rethinking "Heroes" Flub
• September 27 Fixing "Brand America"
• September 27 For BMW, Volvo Was A Brand Too Far
• September 24 Wilhite's Departure at Hyundai Could Be Ford's Win
• September 18 Sharp and Wieden Making Comment on Bonds?
• September 13 Walmart Is Out To Change Its Story With New Ads
• September 13 Experian wastes money so you don't have to?
• September 11 Hyundai Ads Can Take Us To Water But Can They Make Us Think?
• September 07 Web Video for Your Weekend
• August 29 SpongeBob Meets John Mackey Squarepants
• August 27 Is "-onomics" the new "-Gate."
• August 24 Which Ads Don't Get Skipped?
• August 23 McDonald's "Premium" Coffee
• August 22 For Marketers, Ads like YouTube's Could Tilt the Playing Field
• August 20 Sorry, Wal-Mart. The kids would rather talk labor politics than home decor.
• August 15 Where Imus Goes, Advertisers Will Follow
• August 13 If only Allstate insured Altamont
• August 13 Chrysler's New "Lifetime" ads Stretch the Bounds of Cred.
• August 10 J&J and Red Cross--Children...Children.
• August 09 Big Surprise - Kids like McDonald's for more than just the food
• August 07 Words Are Dead in Print Ads Mr. Madden
• August 07 1-18-08 makes me wonder: Is there anything tougher than a viral campaign for a movie?
• July 31 CBS Experiment in Ad Interuptus Shows How Desperate Nets and Advertisers Are In the face of TiVo
• July 27 Can Coach Flying Be Anything But...Hell.
• July 23 What the Real Mad Men Think of "Mad Men"
• July 20 Vick Loses a Sneaker. DeVito Gets a Booze Deal.
• July 17 Most Cause Marketing Is Wallpaper
• July 16 The Trouble with Viral
• July 13 I Just Ate So Much Bacon
• July 12 Chivas TV Not Worth Watching At Any Age
• July 10 CMO Study Not Fair To Pro Marketers
• July 05 Dove Evolution Film. Is It Anything More Than a Feel-Good Moment
• July 02 Romney:Can Buy Me Love...Maybe
• June 23 Viral Video Wins Top Honor at Cannes
• June 22 The Food Giants Are Caving Before Congress and An Incoming Dem President Forces Their Hands.
• June 22 The iPhone Not A Success?
• June 21 Kaiser Study On Parental Computer Monitoring Shows Little
• June 19 The 2008 Election is funny, "ha ha." That's starting to feel funny "weird."
• June 19 Hillary Bats .500 with video and song
• June 19 HBO Turns Online Ads into Online Buzz
• June 13 Sopranos Brand Cameos A Mixed Bag
• June 12 A Perfect Ending for The Sopranos
• June 07 The Power of Youtube Strikes Again.
• June 06 iPhone ads Turbo-Charge An Already Sure-Fire Hit For Apple
• June 06 Outdoor ads that belong in the Digital Budget
• June 06 How Small an Audience Is It?
• June 05 Failure of Accord Hybrid is a Marketing Fiasco
• June 01 Walmart Should Decide What Kind of Company It Wants To Be.
• May 30 Walmart's Roehm Clearly Shooting For Settlement
• May 25 Auto Industry Runs Ad Campaign As Stupid As Pending Fuel Economy Legislation It Takes On
• May 23 Star of Army Recruitment Ad Killed in Iraq. The Army should face up to it.
• May 23 Chrysler's New Owner Has Serious Marketing Work To Do
• May 17 CW orders up the internet works for Gossip Girl. But I'm not satisfied.
• May 17 New Saturn Ad Line Pushes "American" Button
• May 16 The WSJ's Paid Guide to the Upfronts
• May 16 ABC’s Upfront: In which we see the Caveman Show
• May 15 ESPN's Upfront: A High School Play with Donovan McNabb
• May 15 Presidential Candidates Victims of Cyber Squatters
• May 14 NBC: "More Class, More Mass"
• May 14 Desperate Networks, Part 1
• May 11 Richardson Ads Clever. But Not Presidential
• May 08 Martha Stewart Loves Costco. Now we know why.
• May 02 Shell Scores With Online Video
• May 02 Advertisers on Rupert's Dow Jones/News Corp deal
• April 27 Romney's First Ads Do Not Inspire
• April 27 Profiting from the Virginia Shooting, and Other Big Stories
• April 25 DVR Enhanced Ratings Are In.
• April 24 Get Ready for Some Whacked-Out Nike Ads
• April 23 The Property of "Cumulative Advantage"
• April 17 Profiting from the Virginia Shooting
• April 17 Rockstar: Masters of Hype Management
• April 16 Advertisers Must Keep Driving The New National Conversation...If There Really Is One That Is.
• April 13 Are Mini's Hammer & Coop gay?
• April 13 VW and Subaru Read This Blog
• April 09 Imus Under Fire: But Does He Deserve To Burn?
• April 05 Car Advertising Accounts The Buzz At The NY Auto Show
• April 03 Bill Cosby drinks a triple tall, nonfat, extra-hot, no-foam latte
• April 02 Another Take on Image Management
• April 02 Fallon Has Inside Track on Landing Volvo
• March 28 Wal-Mart CEO: "I'm not a big fan of marketing"
• March 28 Wieden May Be Feeling Pressure. But It Is Feeling Confident in Cars
• March 28 In iTunes/MySpace era, Ads and Artists are a Natural Fit
• March 22 No More Man Laws -- or any other goofy Crispin ads for Miller
• March 20 Walmart -Roehm Saga Like Watching A Local News Program
• March 15 Romney's Problem: His Brand Story Is Too Complicated For Voters
• March 09 Fast Fooders and Value-Sit-Down Eateries Who Hide Nutritional Info Do So For a Reason
• March 08 FordBoldMoves Site Suddenly A Poor Reflection of "Boldness."
• March 08 Paraphrasing Andy Warhol
• March 07 FutureMarketing Summit 2007: Take One
• March 02 YUM Brands Will Have To Do Better Than Mea Culpa for Taco Bell
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• February 27 Sirius and XM: Let 'em Merge.
• February 26 Saturn Found Its Voice In A Hurry on Oscar Night
• February 22 MINI Lost Its Touch With New Webisodes.
• February 21 Direct Marketers: Velociraptors with Stamps
• February 16 VW's Suicide Ad Gets Pulled. What Goes On?
• February 15 Brand Marketers should watch Colbert
• February 12 Bud.Tv: So Lame I'm Angry.
• February 09 GM Agrees To Edit Super Bowl To Appease Offended Groups
• February 08 Only Weak Advertisers Fold To Special Interest Ad Baiters.
• February 05 Why I Think Coke Won The Super Bowl Ad Contest. Not Bud.
• February 05 Coke and Chevy had the best of the Bowl
• February 02 Dear Foot Locker: Why Waste Your Money? And Now I'm Ticked.
• February 01 Coke and Nestle Hit with a Lawsuit for "Negative Calories"
• February 01 The Whole Aqua Teen Thing
• January 31 K-Fed and Nationwide: Wish they'd just done the storyboards
• January 30 Deutsch Scores $200 Million Saturn Account
• January 29 Crispin and Redenbacher Forgot the Story
• January 29 Hi! Aren't I Buzzworthy?
• January 23 Miller Lite's Man Law Campaign Out Before Super Bowl
• January 22 Vick and SNL Spoof A Primer for Advertisers on Athlete Shilling
• January 17 Volkswagen and Crispin Under New Pressure With Upheaval in Germany
• January 05 The Secret Enviga Paper
• January 02 From The Department of "Doy": Ad Age Blows The Lid Off Kevin Roberts' "Book."
• January 01 Perhaps I'd be a Terrible Judge of On-Air talent
• December 27 Domo Arigato, Mr. Jobs
• December 26 The Most Tivo'd Shows: Naughty or Nice for Advertisers?
• December 19 Nielsen: DVDs Pass VCRs in U.S. Households
• December 14 An Open Letter To Walmart, Julie Roehm and Draft/FCB
• December 11 As Seen On YouTube! Order now!
• December 06 Online Sellers Test Customer Patience and Satisfaction With Short Supply of Hot Gifts
• December 05 Chrysler "Whoops" Ads Part of Important New Genre
• December 05 Chrysler "Whoops" Ads Part of Important New Genre
• December 04 Jim Cramer Has Lost It: Nobody Should Feel Sorry For a Man With His Own Plane
• December 01 diet Coke: It's possible that a major brand has nowhere to go, but down.
• November 29 Draft "On Top" Ad Stirs Controversy. But I Like It
• November 28 Kramer's Tirade, Part II
• November 28 O'Reilly's War on Christmas: Truth Takes a Holiday Again
• November 28 Branson, Bond, and the anatomy of a product placement
• November 21 Racist Tirade, brought to you by "Flushed Away"
• November 20 Does L'Affair de OJ Hurt or Feed Judith Regan's Image
• November 20 Who'll Jump For a Golden Gate Sponsorship
• November 20 No Need to Brag, Maxell
• November 17 Walmart's Roehm Up To Her Old Publicity Marketing Ways
• November 14 Smith Barney's To-Do List: Learn grammar, class
• November 13 Buick's Woods Youtube Video Shows Lack of Imagination About New Medium
• November 08 The YouTube Election Ratifies Google’s Investment
• November 07 Kellogg Testing The Brand Barriers for Special K
• November 06 Argument Over Commercial Ratings May Be Missing the Point
• November 03 GSD&M's Dontvote.com ads Best of Campaign Season
• November 01 Bill O'Reilly: Does "This Man" Have A Problem With Strong Women?
• October 25 Is the champagne in the Jay-z video for real? It's complicated.
• October 23 Chrysler Has Some Fun With Former Ad Chief Roehm
• October 23 The coffee is going to whaa?!?
• October 16 On Bouncy Balls and Exploding Paint
• October 07 The ANA Conference – Day 3. HP researching the long-term damage to its brand
• October 06 The ANA Conference – Day 2. How P&G "gets" you
• October 06 The ANA Conference – Day 1. Visits from the Ad Fairy
• October 04 "Into the Fire" gets it right
• October 03 These Times Demand That You Appreciate the Times
• October 02 Chevy Silverado Ad is "So...ATA"
• September 29 You Can't Knock Audi For Calling A Review
• September 18 Enjoy a Corona with that bloody gore
• September 15 So who DID advertise on Survivor: Cook Islands?
• September 01 Decision: A spiffy phone, or my soul (for two years)?
• August 29 Walmart About to Feel AFA Wrath
• August 21 Snakes on a Plane should have opened in March
• August 18 Keeping the low-brows in check
• August 16 Strawberry Frog Lands Sam's Club
• August 16 One more reason to hate preppy white rappers – and Smirnoff
• August 15 Why is Finding The Right Product So Tough Sometimes
• August 15 Flight Attendants: Glamorous Jobs?
• August 10 The iPod: crack-cocaine for thumbs, poison to competing brands
• August 08 Google does search ads better -- and you can take that to the bank
• August 07 New Kid on the Block
• July 27 Cadillac Reaching For Icon Status in New Positioning
• July 25 Jeep Compass Bobble-Head Ad Gets Attention
• July 25 World Cup Soccer Ball Design Was Terrible
• July 25 Ad Council's Parental TV Monitoring Spot A Good Start
• July 13 Crispin's BK Movie Idea Could Be A Whopper
• July 13 Wal-Mart and Al Gore...Perfect Together
• July 07 Heineken Chooses Sir Frank Lowe for New Agency.
• July 05 Pat Fallon's New Book is Worth The Squeeze
• June 21 VW's Helga Wins Cannes Lion
• June 20 WHY CMO Tenures Are So Short
• June 13 Subaru Taking The Gloves Off
• June 13 Maybe It's My Inner Fred Mertz
• June 08 If Not For The NFL, DirecTV Would Be In Big Trouble
• June 07 BMW's Ads Get Hammered By Garfield. But Not By Me.
• May 31 The AFA Continues To Hurl Brickbats at Ford
• May 24 Kaiser Foundation Counts Toddler Eyeballs
• May 24 GM Criticizing Ad Flop?
• May 18 Complaints From Hollywood Writers Ring Hollow
• May 18 Bad Name For Kelly Clarkson Tour
• May 02 William Weld On The Streets of New York
• May 02 Folgers Manhole Ads Clever, But...Oooooh ooooh, that smell.
• May 01 Howard Schultz Looking For His Next Act:Maybe He's Found It At The Movies.
• April 24 Ford To Change Ad Track...Again
• April 19 Wrestling With Political Correctness In An Age of Engagement
• April 17 "Drivers Wanted" Dead. But Jetta Drivers Aren't.
• April 11 Saturn Changes Ad Slogan. Hopes For The Best
• April 11 ADIDAS spends Big With NBA
• April 06 Sopranos Ratings Slide Exposes Flaws in Ratings System
• April 06 Maybe There Is A Sucker Born Every Minute
• April 03 Casual Male Goes XL
• March 31 You Would Think Ad Age Would Know Better
• March 28 Hannity and Baldwin =Goober and Gilligan
• March 28 Who'd Have Thought Pine Cleaner Could be Bawdy?
• March 23 Give Up Nothing: Buy a Hyundai.
• March 23 Will IPG Ever Emerge From The Accounting Sewer that Is Phil Geier's Legacy?
• March 23 Damn. I Hate Annoying, Irritating Ads.
• March 22 What We Already Knew: TV Ads Are Less Effective. But Then Again, It Depends On Who's Making Them
• March 16 Can Net Films make This Car Cool?
• March 10 Fox Back On Sirius...Cool
• March 10 Poking Fun At Bad Product Placements
• March 06 Oscar Ads Disappointed More Than Stewart
• March 03 Vanzura Shaking Things Up At Cadillac
• March 03 The Push-To-Talk Power Play
• March 01 Heineken Chases Light Sales. To Thine Own Self Be True?
• February 28 Are Oscar Ad prices Worth It?
• February 27 4A's Chief Blasts Nets For No Show At Conference.
• February 21 Can Tesco Succeed Where Marks and Sparks Fizzled?
• February 21 Yo! Big Head! The Simple Image of Bubblicious
• February 17 Is GM Ready to Stay Jiggy With Ads?
• February 14 Fabio Is Super Bowl King?
• February 13 Lincoln's Maddening Name Game Will Cost It
• February 06 Ameriquest, Hummer and ABC Top The Super Bowl Ad Slugfest For Me
• January 31 Whose Teens Are These , Anyway?
• January 30 Mercedes Benz Could Use An Advertising Jolt
• January 25 CW Network Doesn't Roll Off The Tongue
• January 24 I'm Looking Forward To Deutsch-Ikea: Part Two
• January 19 Absolutely Cool
• January 18 Frank Lowe: The King of Chutzpah
• January 18 Absolut Ads a Good Progression For an Iconic Campaign
• January 06 Kids Don't Skip Ads As Much as Adults
• January 05 Imus and Tassimo Tie-Up One of The Better Promos Around
• December 22 The Alistair Sim Version of Scrooge The Best
• December 22 Dawna Stone Not Much of a Reach For Martha Stewart
• December 21 Buckley's Cough Syrup Tells It Like It Is. Are you listening striking transit workers?
• December 19 It's Beginning To Look Alot Like Festivus
• December 15 The AFA Readies The Next Volley Against Ford
• December 14 Ford Affirms Gay Publication Support. No Victory For AFA
• December 14 Coke Polar Bear Ads: A Bit of Sense In An Otherwise Chaotic Scene.
• December 09 Volvo's Gay Friendly Position Proves Ford Didn't Cave To The AFA
• December 08 MINI USA Chooses Bay Area's Butler Shine To Replace Crispin Porter
• December 08 Advantage Walmart: Giant Retailer Looking Warmer All The Time Compared with Ebeneezer Target
• December 08 JWT's Salzman: "Brand Slut"
• December 08 McCann-Erickson Wims Army Ad Biz. Good News For IPG
• December 05 GM States Its Case. But Better Marketing and Backing The Right Horses Could Help.
• December 01 The Pentagon and Bush Admin Pushing The Same Planted Journalism in Iraq as They Did in The U.S.: Idiotic
• December 01 What's an Ad Agency To Do? Fallon and Grey Get The Axe Despite Good Work.
• December 01 House Party: At Alexis Stewart's.
• December 01 Trump Brand Should File Charges of Parental Abuse
• November 29 Sex Still Sells Baby!! X-Rated Liqueur and Svedka Show The Way
• November 23 Jaguar Tries "Gorgeous" as New Positioning
• November 23 Guinness Going Light in the Loafers. What's The World Coming To?
• November 16 Sony Gets Ballsy. And It's Good.
• November 15 Alexis Stewart Beats Her Mom In The Radio Game
• November 14 BMW Chooses Texas-based GSD&M As Its New Ad Agency
• November 10 Senate Bill Seeks To Shine A Brighter Light On Marketing To Children
• November 09 US Army Going For Team Approach?
• November 04 BMW Narrows To Two Agencies
• November 04 Lugz Moves To A Cease-and-Desist Against Apple Over Ad Campaign
• November 03 VW Film Shorts Less Than Sweet
• October 26 McDonald's Move To Fat/Calorie Labeling Will Cut Both Ways For The Brand
• October 25 Lugz Responds To Apple Over CopyCat Ad and Makes The Most of Its Day In The Sun
• October 25 New Got Milk? Ads Doubly Delicious
• October 20 Donald Trump Knew All Along Martha's Show Would Fail. Makes You Wonder Why He Put His Name On It.
• October 19 Apple, The King of Orginal Design, Looks...Um...Like a Copycat In Its New Ad.
• October 18 Water Marketing Can be Too Absurd For Words. But I'll Try.
• October 18 Video iPod Part of the On-Demand Tsunami
• October 13 Martha Stewart Making Up For Lost Time. But Her Grab Doesn't Quite Match Her Brand.
• October 06 Video Gamers Like Ads In Games. Nutty.
• October 05 GM Can't Make Sense of Subaru. Maybe Toyota Can.
• October 03 IPG Break Up Value Not So Tempting for Shareholders
• October 03 BMW Getting Out of Branded Entertainment? I Don't Think So.
• September 29 Product Placement Appearing in More Scripted Venues
• September 27 Walmart + Tommy Could Be Walking Down the Aisles
• September 22 Martha's Prime Time Debut: Not Bad, but Needs Improvement.
• September 21 BMW Narrows The Search for the New Ultimate Ad Agency.
• September 20 Shareholder Proposal To Break Up IPG Goes Forward
• September 19 Nothing in Bad Taste About Anti Drilling Ad Featuring Bush and Bandar
• September 14 Gillette Raises Bar With Five Blade Razor. What Say We Make It An Even Dozen.
• September 13 BBDO's Recent Wins Quench Thirst Left by Diet Pepsi Loss
• September 08 DVR Study Doesn't Ring Quite True
• September 07 Does The Taxpayer Really Need To Pay for Whiskey Promotion Overseas?
• September 06 VW Fires Its Ad Agency. Drives Into Hot Shop Crispin Porter.
• September 02 New Orleans Ritz Carlton Turns Into MASH Unit
• September 02 Ad Agencies Can Help Hurricane Victims. And Some Are.
• September 01 A New Code of Ethics From A Madison Ave. Lawbreaker
• August 30 Word of Mouth versus Advertising
• August 29 Nielsen People Metering Shows Big Uptick in 18-34 TV Watching...if you believe it.
• August 25 Wanamaker Project Will Put More Pressure on Madison Ave. To Cut Costs of Ad Making.
• August 23 Cartoon Network's New Toddler Programs Just Answering a Market Demand
• August 17 WNBA Is A League of Their Own...And Mine Now.
• August 15 Nike's Big Butt is Bold and Beautiful
• August 09 Enjoy Zen Responsibly?
• August 08 Ford Hops Away From Hip Hopper Eminem
• August 04 Marketing The Army Cold War Style in a Hot War Time.
• August 03 Reebok and Adidas Merger Looks Good. But Will It Be Good?
• August 02 NASCAR News: Oh Joy!
• July 27 Burger King's Coq Roq Site Stirs Pot. But Will It Sell Greasy Chicken Fries?
• July 26 When It Comes To Fruit Snacks, It's Apples and Grapes In My House
• July 22 Nissan Shows The Power of Marketing By Design
• July 22 Grand Theft Auto Marketers May Have Gone a Buzz Too Far. But We'll See...
• July 20 Does Toilet Paper Have The Right To be Fun?
• July 20 McDonald's As a Lifestyle Brand: Take 2
• July 19 Pontiac Aztek Goes The Way of the DoDo
• July 18 Who Is Choosing The Music Tie Ins?
• July 15 SpongeBob Veggies: Good PR Cover
• July 12 Coke's Hilltop Remake Ad Falls Short
• July 08 Iacocca as Returned Pitchman: Part Two
• July 07 Iacocca Returns To Chrysler Ads: Good Idea
• July 05 Not Every Brand is a Lifestyle Brand
• July 01 Brand Bush May Be Down. But Brand USA is Fine, At Least At Home.
• June 30 Refund Marketing Second Best Thing To Getting It Right The First Time
• June 29 Why Carl's Jr. and Paris Hilton Are Doing It Right
• June 23 When Advertising Becomes Information--that's gold.
• June 22 General Mills Breakfast Campaign A PR Blunder
• June 17 Historic BMW and Fallon Advertiser-Agency Relationship Comes to an End
• June 17 GM's "Employee Price" Ads Pay Off So Far
• June 16 Miller and Bud Begin a New Round in War of "Taste."
• June 15 Exclusive: Relaunch of McKids--It's Not About Selling Toys and Clothes.
• June 15 "Downsize Me" Pro McDonald's Film Interesting, but maybe not as tasty as "Supersize Me"
• June 13 Ad Placement Can Be Tricky When a Brand is in The Mud
• June 13 Couch Potato Teens Helping Sites Like Mania TV
• June 09 Marketers and Media Companies Getting Ready for Everything On Demand
• June 08 Mass Customization Maybe Offers Too Many Choices
• June 08 NutriSystem is a Brand Truly Made Over
• June 03 Is Product Placement Beyond the FCC?
• June 01 Converse Net Ads Worth The Watch
• May 30 Feedback from Carl's Jr Paris Hilton Ad as Spicey as The Ad
• May 30 NBA: Ads On Unis. Sounds Pretty Cheesy
• May 27 Netflix and Blockbuster's Next Play
• May 26 Will Americans Bite For Chinese Cars?
• May 25 Carl's Jr Paris Hilton Ad Spicey and Smart
• May 23 New Chase Ad Embodies Everything Wrong With Traditional Adverts.
• May 19 If You Were Wondering What GM is Planning for Pontiac and Buick--Read On.
• May 18 Store Wars More Enjoyable Than The Last Two Star Wars Flicks
• May 16 Audi's New Viral Campaign is Catchy
• May 13 Companies, Brands and Social Justice an Interesting Three-Way
• May 10 Ebay is a brand in trouble
• May 04 V-E Day Commemoration This Weekend Hits Home For This Blogger
• May 04 Levi's 501 Films Make Ads Worth Watching
• April 29 Cable Industry Follows Liquor Model To Keep Decency Police at Bay
• April 28 KFC Takes Back Its Middle Name. Can Big Food Make Fat Phat?
• April 27 Online Yellow Pages May Deliver Buyers, But They Can be a Huge Drag.
• April 26 Imus Audience Slips in New York. But He Still Packs a Punch
• April 26 Gay Media Swinging....Up
• April 21 France's Pernod-Ricard Gets Britain's Allied Domecq, But It Still Doesn't Want French Wine.
• April 18 Reebok Pulls 50 Cent Ad. Spotlight Shines on the Difficulty of Aligning With Rappers.
• April 13 GM Could End Up Looking Better Than Expected Over Flap With LA Times Over Tough Coverage
• April 13 McDonald's 50th Anniversary Invites Reflections on a Brand Icon
• April 11 Carl's Jr. Fetus Ads Creepier Than a Jr. High School Health Film
• April 08 Memo to GM Et Al: Public Relations Counts as Marketing, But Only If You Do It Right.
• April 07 It Just Gets Better and Better With McDonald's and The Rappers
• April 07 Extreme Makeover: A Product Placement Dream
• April 06 Hip Hop Two-Step Over Product Placement
• April 04 GM Can At Least Start With Its Advertising
• March 30 Award Winning Honda Ad From UK Shows Ads Can Be Great and Compelling
• March 29 McDonald's Turning Brand Placement Into Junk
• March 28 FCC and GOP May Over Reach If They Go After Cable TV
• March 24 Citizen Imus Under Fire. But It's the Critics Who Will Get Burned.
• March 24 GM Doesn't Have a Bad Image. It Has A Bad Reality.
• March 21 Tasteless Beer Advertising
• March 18 Subaru Tries "Think. Feel. Drive." as New Ad Idea With New Agency.
• March 17 Answering The Blog Mail
• March 17 BMW Deal With Sirius Shows Road To More Successful Business Model for Sat Radio
• March 16 Democrats Are talking about "Re-Branding"
• March 14 Karen Hughes a Predictable, and Troubling, Choice To Market the U.S. Abroad
• March 14 Johns Hopkins Ads Make Some Odd Choices
• March 09 Can Anyone Elighten Me About The Rudest Cell Phone Behavior of All?
• March 09 McDonalds New Campaign Is The Appearance of a Good Start
• March 08 Booze Industry's Self Regulating Ad Model Shows Promise. Food companies next?
• March 04 Those Fox Ratings Don't Necessarily Mean The Country is Moving To The Right
• March 02 Why Nobody in The Airline Industry Should Carry a Marketing Title
• March 01 Podcasting Could be an Ad Creative's Delight
• March 01 Booze Ads Proliferating on TV. Not Such a Bad Thing.
• February 24 Dear Martha: A Few Thoughts About Your New Brand
• February 23 Erectile Dysfunction Ads Get my Dander Up
• February 23 Airlines Are Not Marketing Even If They Think They Are
• February 22 Applebees Shmapplebees
• February 16 New Saab Ads Go Nowhere
• February 14 Reebok's Popeye Play
• February 11 FTC Rules Against Disclosing Product Placement Ads.
• February 09 At 41, Am I Too Old To Wear Low-Riders to Work?
• February 08 Are Fox and The NFL Kidding? Apparently Standards and Practices Are... Fluid.
• February 07 When It Comes To Super Bowl Ads, Students Probably Carry More Weight Than I Do
• February 03 Funny Versus Offensive. Hypocrisy and Imus Make It Tough To Draw the Line.
• February 02 There's a Reason Why Perdue Doesn't Give Plant Tours
• February 01 An Advertising Alliance To Hold Off Regulation Against Advertising to Kids. Bravo.
• January 28 P&G and Gillette. What Mergers Were Invented For.
• January 28 Advertising. Obesity. Prince Harry. Nazis. And My Kashi Is Getting Soggy.
• January 26 The Super Bowl Ad Fest is Nearly Upon Us
• January 25 Usually, the simple ideas are the cleverest
• January 24 One Man's Idea of Misinformation is Actually His Own Intellectual Laziness.
• January 21 SpongeBob's Bad Day
• January 19 Scion's Success Surprises Me...A Little
• January 18 All Politics is Marketing
• January 14 Better Living Through M&Ms?
• January 13 PR Agencies Will Do Almost Anything
• January 12 Subaru's Transformation to Johnny Town Mouse
• January 11 Minivan Is Not A Dirty Word For Those Who Know How To Spell It
• January 07 Saturn's Curious Orbit
• January 05 Brands Abroad Under Fire
• December 28 Is Zara All That?
• December 28 My Andy Rooney Moment at Christmas
• December 22 World Wrestling Wombat
• December 17 Super Premium Vodka: I can See Clearly Now
• December 14 Giuliani is a Brand That's Been Whacked.
• December 13 "I'm Dreaming of a White Buick?"