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Iowan Joni Ernst—mother, soldier and conservative—wants to take her hog castration experience to the chambers of the U.S. Senate and clip, clip, clip the dreaded "pork," so beloved be her political brethren. http://youtu.be/p9Y24MFOfFU "Washington is full of big spenders—let's make them squeal," Ernst offers. What a towering load of manure. So-called conservatives freely spend the nation's tax dollars on …
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Scott Lindenbaum is VP, Director of Digital Planning for Deutsch NY. No doubt, Lindenbaum has a sweet position at the agency, but the title fails to suit him. He wants to be called Engagement Strategy Director. Given the planner's understanding of Marshall McLuhan's thinking on hot and cool media, Lindenbaum likely deserves said title change. In the 1960s, Philosopher Marshall McLuhan famously wrote about hot …
Two books – one new, one newly in paperback – provide equally valuable looks at branding from two very different perspectives. I’ve always liked Steve McKee’s columns on BloombergBusinessweek.com, and he’s taken the best of them (I like that idea too!) and weaved them into Power Branding: Leveraging the Success of the World’s Great Brands. Each section is three pages at most, and little lessons from dozens of …
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Cadillac chose to feature an arrogant white man with questionable values to promote its new electric vehicle. Thankfully, Ford made a much wiser decision. It's 2014 Ford C-MAX is introduced in the following video by Pashon Murray, founder of Detroit Dirt, a sustainability consultancy and advocacy group in Detroit. “We’re crazy entrepreneurs trying to make the world better," Murray …
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Taco Bell encouraged real men with a famous name to testify! "I am Ronald McDonald and I love Taco Bell's new breakfasts," several real Ronalds repeat into the camera. Post by AdPulp. This new campaign from Deutsch LA is not exactly brilliant, but it may breakthrough. And breakthrough is what it is going take to loosen McDonald’s grip on the morning hours—McD's currently dominates with 31 percent of …
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You can't read a media brand by its cover. For instance, Daily Candy looks like an incredibly healthy site. But its owner, NBC Universal, is not pleased with the numbers. So displeased are the suits that they decided to pull the plug on Daily Candy and Television Without Pity. http://youtu.be/uayO9HmfFbI According to Variety, Comcast bought DailyCandy in 2008 for $125 million from investment firm Pilot …
Bryan Wiener is chairman of digital agency 360i and Expion, a social content marketing optimization platform. He believes business leaders are looking high and low for digital leadership. Writing for Ad Age, he points to a recent Forrester report surveyed 1,200+ global business executives. While 74% of global businesses have a digital strategy, only 33% believe it's the right strategy, and beyond that, only 21% – …
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One may need to employ mutant superpowers to take down the two X-Tra servings of bacon on the new Western X-Tra Bacon Cheeseburger and X-Tra Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit from Carl's Jr. and Hardee's. The brands' promotional tie-in with 20th Century Fox’s release of X-Men: Days of Future Past kicked off today with the premiere of “Mystique”. http://youtu.be/EJs8zC-AnQk Additional spots from creative agency …
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