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NYT: American products are struggling these days in the Chinese market, where they have trouble measuring up to European brands and even some Chinese brands. Abby Chan, a 23-year-old advertising copywriter, took a break from shopping for Levi's jeans at a mall here (Guangzhou, China) on Wednesday evening and relaxed at a table in a Starbucks restaurant. Aside from coffee and denim, there were not many American brand …
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I think many of us would agree that advertising is home to an inordinant number of troublesome employees. Why this business attracts so many jerk offs remains something of a mystery (at least to me). Perhaps the recent Terrell Owens debacle in Philadpelpha can shed some light. Wharton: Faculty members at Wharton and other experts say Owens is a classic case of a star employee who, because of his immense talent, was …
By David Burn
Doc Searls is concerned about the future of the net. In Linux Journal, he outlines his reasons for concern. Here's but a snippet: With the purchase and re-animation of AT&T's remains, the collection of former Baby Bells called SBC will become the largest communications company in the US--the new Ma Bell. Verizon, comprised of the old GTE plus MCI and the Baby Bells SBC didn't grab, is the new Pa Bell. That's one side …
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Lewis Lazare is curious about the promotion of one of Chicago's top creatives. Marshall Ross, longtime executive creative director at Cramer-Krasselt/Chicago, has been upped to chief creative officer overseeing creative units in C-K's Chicago, Milwaukee, Phoenix and Orlando, Fla., offices, but, oddly enough, not C-K's New York office, headed by Dean Stefanides and Larry Hampel. At least one source questioned whether …
By David Burn
Business Week: My research department doesn't know it, but I'm killing all our focus groups." So spoke Cammie Dunaway, chief marketing officer at Yahoo! Inc., at a Silicon Valley conference in September. Dunaway doesn't plan to harm the groups of innocents that marketers have long assembled in beige conference rooms to observe behind two-way mirrors, like zoo animals, as they hold forth about coffee and shampoo …
By David Burn
In June 2005, Jeffrey Miron, a Visiting Professor of Economics at Harvard University, wrote a report, “Budgetary Implications of Marijuana Prohibition in the United States” arguing for the regulation and taxation of marijuana and sent it to President Bush. It included the sweeping endorsements of over 530 of the world’s most respected economists, including that of Milton Friedman, the Nobel Memorial Prize recipient …
By David Burn
We live in interesting times. Ad Age reports third-quarter ad revenue plunged 21.5% at the big three broadcast networks, according to the Broadcast Cable Financial Management Association, which releases figures for ABC, CBS and NBC that are compiled by auditor Ernst & Young. The New York Times reports today that The Los Angeles Times plans to cut jobs throughout the newspaper, including about 85 of its 1,032 newsroom …
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