To promote the new Xbox Kinect Star Wars game, AKQA released a viral video that sees Chris Pratt taking over Obi-Wan Kenobi's role for his epic battle against Darth Vader.
Anjelica Huston, writing on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has fired off a letter to CareerBuilder CEO Matt Ferguson asking the company to cease use of the great apes in advertising
MDC Partners' CP&B and Publicis Groupe's Saatchi & Saatchi, New York, this week let go just under 5% of its staff, while WPP Group's Ogilvy earlier in the month laid off 60 people out of its overall staff of 2,000. What does this mean for the industry?
"We were looking for an agency that could help us figure out the next generation of customers," Skip Weldon, senior VP-marketing at Bertucci's, told Ad Age.
Perhaps many Apple aficionados are prepared to strike a Faustian bargain -- vague tugs of guilt in exchange for the coolest stuff ever -- but some will not. The backlash is no doubt under way.
We asked Bluefin Labs to chart TV shows' social-media response this year against last year. "Jersey Shore" commenters shot up 612% to 303,766.
Is the future of the sitcom a syndicated viral webisode series broken into three seven-minute chunks weekly? Alloy and a handful of advertisers are giving it a try, anyway.
If Google merged its huge vault of business information into Google+ pages tied to its Maps, Places and other services, it could become a local marketing giant.
Marketers have long assumed content shared by friends or other influencers carries more weight than paid placements. Now GE has some proof.
Google owns 51% of the mobile-ad market, largely because of its dominance in mobile-search advertising. Apple is far behind, at 6.4%.
Here are some of the ways the smartest companies are using social media, not just to communicate their sustainability stance, but also to involve the public in building a better world.
Nearly half of consumers say they have not completed an online transaction because of something they read in a privacy policy.
Older tactics are quickly giving way to a new order -- applicable whether you're promoting a brand or advocating for a cause.
In his first earnings call since Yahoo named him CEO three weeks ago, Scott Thompson mixed bold proclamations of Yahoo's potential with requests for more time to articulate his vision for the stalled behemoth.
Clients are often depicted as conservative corporate yes-men, standing in contrast to the Technicolor brilliance of the agency's creative wizards. This image ignores a number of brand-side marketers who bring guts and innovation to the business. Here's a ranking of 10 forward-thinking executives, and some takeaways that may help you become a better...
Doug Sweeny Agency-client relationships are like a marriage. You need to talk, listen, compromise and have a sense of humor. Like most marriages, they start with the euphoric honeymoon. It can start to wear during the months and years ahead as the difficulties of daily life set in, but how you manage those things is what ...
Bacardi Global Chief Marketing Officer Silvia Lagnado puts a premium on having good relationships with her agencies. Yet Ms. Lagnado, who took the post in 2010 after a lengthy career at Unilever, always sees room for improvement. "The quality of your leadership and the quality of your relationship with the agencies makes a huge differenc...
Midway through an important meeting before the launch of a big campaign, Allstate Senior VP-Marketing Lisa Cochrane turned to the dozen or so people in the room and asked, "Does everybody here besides me know 'Safety Dance'?" Her creative agency, Leo Burnett, had just shown her an ad featuring the hit song from the '80s. But it was foreign t...
Wendy Clark, Sr. VP-Integrated Marketing Communications and Capabilities, Coca-Cola "Great clients are generally more concerned about their impact and output than on their greatness. That is our enduring focus in 2012. From my experience, great leaders make great clients. Sun Tzu identified five characteristics of great leaders that endure today ...
Three tips from Brad Jakeman, president-global enjoyment brands, chief creative officer, PepsiCo 1. BE OPEN TO ALL SOURCES OF CREATIVITY, BUT DON'T GET DISTRACTED BY SHINY OBJECTS. Popular culture is brimming with incredible storytellers, visual artists and utility builders. The trick is to be open to collaboration but retain the abil...
Lessons on how to create compelling and fan-earning campaigns on the world's most popular social media platform
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Shopper marketing is a complex undertaking. This four-part series explores how companies that do it best are practicing it, and what you can learn fro... More
A survey of how women are really using technology today, from laptops to mobile, in collaboration with JWT. Download slides by clicking the AdAge.com/... More
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This white paper, produced with partner Kantar Media, examines the state of pharma marketing today, how digital information and social-media channels... More
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