Ad Age is reporting on a public feud between non-profit Save Darfur Coalition and Fidelity Investments. The financial-services company has pressured CNN and Newsweek to hold off running coalition ads critical of Fidelity's investment in PetroChina, a company whose parent, China National Petroleum, is one of Sudan's largest oil-industry partners. Clearly, when it comes to ad clout, Fidelity has the upper hand. The …
Who The Hell Are The “World Federation Of Advertisers”?
I've been reading Adweek regularly for 13 years now and I've never, ever heard of these people. Apprarently though, they're out there working for us. From Adweek: The WFA's measures include: boosting consumer awareness about the self-regulatory system; speeding and simplifying the complaint process and the removal of advertisements that breach the codes; setting up a transparent adjudication process; and involving …
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The Creative World According To Tug
Over at American Copywriter Tug McTighe has a few rules to live by, or at least ponder. Collect all 7. Here's just one: 7. Don’t blame the creatives for not caring after round of revisions 13. Are you kidding? If your spouse asked you – no demanded – that you rearrange the living room furniture 13 times over the course of two days, stopping whatever else you were doing each and every time to do so because it “had to …
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Content Too Hot For Ritz To Handle
According to The New York Times, Ritz-Carlton is objecting to foul language and brand-diminishing storylines in a book of short stories it commissioned from Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster. The luxury hotel chain planned to provide the book, Turndown Tales, as part of its turndown service. One of the stories in Turndown Tales is by the novelist Jodi Picoult, who wrote about a woman so fed up with her …
Inside The Hyundai Pitch
BusinessWeek has a revealing behind-the-scenes look at the Hyundai pitch won by Goodby. Regular AdPulp readers know that I have a personal interest in this as the owner of a new Santa Fe. I'm a brand advocate. So did Hyundai make the right decision, in my humble opinion? Let's take a look at the pitched campaigns: Siltanen & Partners: This Los Angeles-based agency had an inside track on winning the account because …
“Selling Out” Has Lost All Meaning In Today’s Media Culture
Jed Gottlieb writing for the Boston Herald takes modern indie bands to task for selling out to the man. John Mellencamp’s career has basically been one long commercial for the American working man. So when Chevy ads featuring his song “Our Country” scrolled across TV screens every 2.3 seconds for months last fall, it seemed fitting. But when Of Montreal - a cultish dance-pop band with a penchant for singing about …
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Now The Feds Are Chasing Eisner
Apparently, some dead agencies can't rest in peace. From The Baltimore Business Journal: The Baltimore office of the FBI has launched an investigation into possible criminal activity committed by defunct advertising firm Eisner Communications Inc. and its former Chairman Steve Eisner. Since Eisner's closure, the ad firm's former landlord and several vendors that provided equipment and services have filed lawsuits …
Delta’s Newest Destination: Twitterville
Ariel points to the fact that Delta Airlines has an active Twitter account. Love or hate Twitter, it is easy to see how it's a valuable resource for real-time brand monitoring. Thousands of users simultaneously (and quite candidly) expressing their good and bad interactions with brands, products, and services. Companies should consider it a virtual focus group of sorts... Only, instead of locking housewives in a room …
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