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Top News: HP Awards PC Business | AmEx Brand Innovation | Groupon Reports Profit | Millennial Media Doesn't | Google Ads Trump Facebook | Social Brand Blunders

Ad Technology: Volvo Launches China's First RTB-based Advertising DoubleClick co-founder targets publishers with content-meets-commerce service Publishers   [...]

Top News: Y&R Falkland Flap | Best of CLIOs | MS E-Bookstore | Apple Gaming Dominates | NBC's Streaming Olympics

Campaigns of Note: Ad Steps Into Falklands Dispute; Y&R Condemns Local Office's Work CLIO Awards: Best of the 2012 Winners How Beer Companies   [...]

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The Golden Road (to Unlimited Branding)

While 1960s countercultural jam band pioneers The Grateful Dead do not have an image associated with the traditional business world, they do have much to teach marketers, writes Copyblogger.  [...]

Palm Gets One-Upped By Customer's Ad

It is hard not to pity Palm these days: the company is projecting very poor sales for its upcoming quarter and analysts have abandoned any pretense of liking the stock. Worst, Palm’s attempts to reconnect with its customers - arguably it's main problem - have been overshadowed by a head-turning ad created by Palm aficionado Heiko Thies. The ad, writes Wired, "manages to be both exciting and s  [...]

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Target Unveils Scannable Mobile Coupon Campaign

Target is entering the increasingly crowded retail mobile coupon arena, launching a new national program that allows customers to receive coupons directly on their mobile phones and redeem them by scanning a barcode at checkout. Target says it is the first national retailer to offer scannable mobile coupons directly to customers’ mobile phones for   [...]

McDonald's Augments Brand with Avatar Campaign

McDonald's is introducing its own version of augmented reality - marketing-style - in conjunction with this Friday's opening of the expected blockbuster film Avatar. The fast food chain has developed an interactive game that explores Pandora, the world where Avatar takes place, via high-resolution, 360-degree views - among  [...]

'Deadliest Catch' Spans Mobile, Internet, Gaming

Discovery launched a three-pronged marketing campaign - across mobile, the internet and gaming - geared toward the cable net's growing fan base for the show The Deadliest Catch, reports MediaBuyerPlanner. The campaign, for the fifth season of the hit series about crab fishing off Alaska, was designed to capture viewers "throughout the day no matter what platform they are using," sa  [...]

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CNN Uses Inauguration to Toy with Long-Form Video Ads

Last Tuesday CNN.com piloted video ads of up to :60 in length, leveraging the high traffic it knew it would receive as users visited the site to watch live streams of the inauguration. "This is the first time we experimented with placing in-stream commercials into the live feed," said SVP-Digital Advertising Joe Dugan, who said CNN sold the placement at premium rates. "Previously we did pre-rolls limited to 15 seconds and intro billboards." Clients included Cisco and Starbucks, with a new   [...]

Unwanted 'American Idol' Text Message Backfires on AT&T

This week AT&T Wireless sent a text message to a "significant number" of its 75 million customers, promoting the Tuesday premier of American Idol, a popular show where Americans compete for pop stardom. The wordy SMS read: AT&T Free Msg: Get ready for American Idol! AI 8 starts this Tues (1/13) at 8pm on FOX. Check out AT&T's official AI web site from you [sic] PC - www.att.com/idol for the latest info on our $1MM sweepstakes, test your AI IQ by playing the trivia game  [...]

Kroger Targets Coupons with Customer-Loyalty Data

Even through a recession, and despite a strong reported preference for them, US consumers redeem just 1-3% of paper coupons. But coupon distributors take heart: up to half the coupons that Kroger sends to its customers are redeemed, courtesy of the data-mining firm it uses (and part-owns) to target specific customers,   [...]

Dunkin' Donuts Bows $100MM "You Kin' Do It!" Campaign

Last Monday Dunkin' Donuts bowed a $100+ million integrated ad campaign with a rallying cry for consumers hard-hit by the economy: "You Kin' Do It!" The national "You Kin' Do It" campaign broke with three TV spots aired during network primetime and national cable programming,   [...]

American Pie's 'Stifler' Co-Anchors Heavy.com Sports Show

Seann William Scott -- better known as Steve Stifler of the raunchy '90s comedy American Pie -- joins male entertainment site Heavy.com as co-host of The Burly Sports Show, a weekly round-up of all things sporting. "This goes beyond a sponsorship," boasted CEO Simon Assaad of Heavy.com (via MediaPost  [...]

Mars Extends NASCAR Sponsorship

Mars North America will extend its contract as official NASCAR partner. The multiyear sponsorship commitment designates four Mars products as official NASCAR brands: M&M's as Official Chocolate of NASCAR Snickers as Official Chocolate Bar of NASCAR Combos as Official Cheese-Filled Snack of NASCAR Pedigree as Official Pet Food of NASCAR The partnership complements Mars  [...]

There.com, Club Penguin Do Their Part for Charity

Virtual worlds There.com and Club Penguin organized online drives to encourage users to think charitably, reports Virtual World News. The sites target young adults and children, respectively. There.com set it  [...]

Online Campaigns Bring Irony to Gift-Giving

UPS tapped agency T3 to produce UPSRegifter.com, a site that enables users to pass unwanted gifts off to others, just in time for the holidays. "Regifting" is the process of recycling bad presents. It entered the lexicon in a 1995 episode of Seinfeld, according to MediaPost. On UPSRegifter.com, users upload images of gifts they don't want, or choose fro  [...]

One Billion Tweets Strong, Twitter Contemplates Charging for Use

Microblogging service Twitter may be brewing a pay-to-Tweet model for businesses using it to promote wares or connect with consumers. Twitter enables users to publish "microblogs" of up to 140 characters apiece. Last month it ranked among the fastest-growing social networks -- racking up 343% growth year over year. It received between $1 million and $5 million in VC funding   [...]

Pizza Hut Weds MP3s to Online Ordering Experience

Beginning today, users that make orders on PizzaHut.com can download 75 MP3s at no cost, courtesy of eMusic. Free tracks come with an order of either the Pizza Mia, Tuscani Pasta, WingStreet Wings or any other Pizza Hut specials. The music has no digital rights management protection -- meaning users can play them on any MP3 player or share them with friends. "The same customers who order online from pizzahut.com are also big fans of downloading music online, so this promotion is a natural   [...]

Confirmed: Obama Running In-Game Ads in 10 Swing States

Electronic Arts confirmed that Sen. Barack Obama has purchased in-game ad space in nine major video games, reports The Hill. Speculation seized the blogosphere when one gamer took a screenshot of an Obama billboard that appeared in an Xbox 360 game of Burnout Paradise. He posted the im  [...]

MySpace Music: Live with All-Star Sponsorship Roster!

Last night MySpace unveiled its ad-supported streaming music and video service, MySpace Music. The service includes shareable playlists and the ability to buy tracks from iTunes rival Amazon. Over time, users will also be able to purchase ringtones, merchandise and concert tickets, reports MediaPost. The   [...]