According to the Farmer John microsite, VoteLAHotDog, “New York has the Dirty Water Dog. Chicago has the Red Hot. Even Baltimore has the Half Smoke. It’s high time L.A. got its own dog: The Bacon Wrapped Hot Dog. Born on the streets of East L.A., and sold by street vendors everywhere from Ktown to WeHo, [...]
Paying Customers Right This Way, Freeloaders Around Back
September 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Boston Globe will launch a paid subscription site, BostonGlobe.com, in the second half of 2011 but Boston.com will remain free, to better serve a wide array of consumers and advertisers as part of a two-brand strategy. BostonGlobe.com will be a new subscription site that contains all news and feature stories, commentary, analysis, photographs and [...]
What Happens When Your Ad Campaign Is Really A PR Campaign
September 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Young & Rubicam is working with Goldman Sachs to improve the Wall Street firm’s reputation, as it begins to emerge from years of public scrutiny regarding it pay and business practices. According to The New York Times, Goldman’s “Progress is Everyone’s Business,” campaign is running in national, regional and local newspapers and on various web [...]
The Strong Arm of Chevron Throttles Its Shareholding Critics
September 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Chevron is pursuing legal action against one of its small shareholders. Antonia Juhasz, who runs the energy program at San Francisco-based advocacy group Global Exchange, used her 14 shares to attend the Chevron annual shareholders meeting and disrupt it. She was removed from the meeting and arrested outside [...]
This Is The Award You Want To Win, It Comes With A Nice Fat Check
September 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
WONGDOODY scored top honors at the Radio Mercury Awards last night for its documentary-style campaign for the Washington State Department of Health titled, “Dear Me.” As the co-Grand Prize winner, WONGDOODY takes home half of the $100,000 prize. WONGDOODY’s “Dear Me” campaign targets Washington’s working poor, among whom smoking rates are the highest. Traditional efforts [...]
This Is Far From The Worst Ad In America, But Consumerist Readers Beg To Differ
September 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
For many people who make ads for a living, industry awards are catnip. But not this one–Consumerist.com has named the Worst Ad in America in its first annual celebration of out ability to annoy. More than 100,000 consumer votes were tallied up in Consumerist.com’s first annual Worst Ad in America Awards. Six perpetually obnoxious ads [...]
Every Week Is Advertising Week
September 29, 2010 By 2 Comments
As part of its Advertising Week coverage, Adweek thrust critic Barbara Lippert in front of a camera to explain disintermediation and how it’s relevant to the agency business. Speaking of Advertising Week, Dan Goldgeier made a great point about the industry schmooze fest when he said, “I’m not in New York City. For the last [...]
Today In Twitterverse: Follow Your Dog
September 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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