Buckley's not only makes coughs disappear, it makes MySpace layouts better. I kid you not. …
Guiness Imitates Honda (And Spends Lots of Money in the Process)
Keep Up The Bad Work
Typically it's unwise for a category leader to respond to an attack ad. But Anheuser-Busch has done so in a refreshing way, turning that age-old advise on its head. After a new Miller spot that depicts A-B's Dalmatian jumping ship when it sees a Miller Lite truck, Budweiser responded with a full-page ad on the back of USA Today's sports section. Their headline: Keep up the bad work, Miller Beer. It's getting a lot …
Pun Alert
Good writers detest puns. But that hasn't done a thing to deter businesses from deploying them. The latest entry comes to us from Las Vegas, where Sexxpresso is now serving up some hot coffee. For more on this emerging trend, see this news segment from Seattle. …
Yahoo Brand Tarnished By Informant Role In China
According to The Wall Street Journal, American firms seeking large piles of cash in China are faced with more than day-to-day business challenges. They're faced with tough moral choices. An unusually dramatic congressional hearing on Yahoo Inc.'s role in the imprisonment of at least two dissidents in China exposed the company to withering criticism and underscored the risks for Western companies seeking to expand …
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Does Epsonality Have Wessonality?
I don't know the answer to that question, but upon hearing about the new Epson ad campaign, that's the first thing that came to my mind. The Epsonality site was very slow (kind of like the Epson photo printer I ditched for a Canon), but apparently there's some sort of quiz on there you can take to determine your Epsonality. I could swear there was another "-ality" campaign that came out recently, but I can't …
There’s No There, There
According to The Wall Street Journal, Target will stage a fashion show in Grand Central Terminal in New York City on Nov. 6 and 7. But not just any fashion show. This one will feature no models and no clothes. Instead holograms -- two-dimensional moving images that give the illusion of having three dimensions -- will walk down the runway every every 10 minutes from noon to midnight the first day and 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. …
The Gap Has A Gap In Its Value System
While the Gap loves to get activist celebrities like John Mayer involved in its ad campaigns, it's currently facing a bigger problem. Namely, the discovery of child labor abuses at its factories. From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Clothing retailer Gap Inc. said Sunday that it will convene all of its Indian suppliers to "forcefully reiterate" its prohibition on child labor after a British newspaper found …
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