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What's the Ad Industry Listening To? Find Out With Resonate

What's the Ad Industry Listening To? Find Out With Resonate

Spotify and Ad Age launch a music destination to show what artists and songs are popular among the ad industry's tastemakers. 

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Tesla Generates Small Sales, Big Buzz Without Paid Ads

Tesla Generates Small Sales, Big Buzz Without Paid Ads

Tesla Motors has no advertising, no ad agency, no CMO, no dealer network. And that's no problem.

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Liberty Mutual Begins Creative and Media Reviews

Liberty Mutual Begins Creative and Media Reviews

Liberty Mutual, which spends $160 million on measured media annually, is reviewing its creative and media accounts, currently at Interpublic's Hill Holiday.

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'Mad Men' Recap: Bob Benson, Revealed

'Mad Men' Recap: Bob Benson, Revealed

We know Bob Benson is a lover of coffee, a listener of self-help records and a friend to Joan. But who is Bob really?

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Newcastle Turns to Small Minneapolis Agency for PR

Newcastle Turns to Small Minneapolis Agency for PR

Fast Horse will be tasked with spreading the news of the brand's ongoing "No Bollocks" campaign

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Rise of WhatsApp Could Slow Facebook's Quest for Mobile Growth

Rise of WhatsApp Could Slow Facebook's Quest for Mobile Growth

The app replicates SMS through push notifications, and claims to have eclipsed Twitter's 200 million monthly active users.

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Nestle Purina to Buy Petfinder

Nestle Purina to Buy Petfinder

The animal-adoption site is being bought by $11.5 billion global pet-products manufacturer Nestlé Purina. Terms were not disclosed.

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Here's Who Made the 2013 'Creativity 50'

Here's Who Made the 2013 'Creativity 50'

Welcome to the 2013 Creativity 50 -- our ninth installment of the year's most influential creative thinkers and doers. 

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'Duck Dynasty'-Licensed Lines Hatching at Walmart

'Duck Dynasty'-Licensed Lines Hatching at Walmart

A&E reality show and Bentonville big seller create branded products including Halloween costumes for dogs and antimicrobial adhesives.

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Is Big Tobacco Back as a Big Advertiser?

Is Big Tobacco Back as a Big Advertiser?

Once nearly a $1 billion category, tobacco advertising may seem as much a relic as Peggy Olson’s typewriter. The rollout of electronic cigarettes is changing that.

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Meet Ad Age's Cover Contest Winners From Lowe, Thailand

Meet Ad Age's Cover Contest Winners From Lowe, Thailand

For inspiration, the winners of Ad Age’s fourth annual cover contest asked themselves the question “Who is the creative of 2013 and of the future?”

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Ad Age's 2013 Global Cover Contest Finalists: Which Design Is Your Favorite?

Ad Age's 2013 Global Cover Contest Finalists: Which Design Is Your Favorite?

For this year's cover contest we chose 12 finalists from more than 300 entries. Check out the runners up and let us know your favorite.

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Creative Execs' Salaries Surge in Adland, Survey Finds

Creative Execs' Salaries Surge in Adland, Survey Finds

Paychecks for creative types rose 5.5.% on average this year, up from 4.8% last year, a 24 Seven survey finds. But are folks feeling the love?

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If We're All So Darn Sick of You, Facebook, Why Can't We Quit You?

If We're All So Darn Sick of You, Facebook, Why Can't We Quit You?

Dumenco attempts to make sense of Facebook's usage numbers and continuing appeal to marketers.

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Demand for Beautiful Design Grows in Quant-Crazy Silicon Valley

Demand for Beautiful Design Grows in Quant-Crazy Silicon Valley

Once satisfied with making products useful, tech companies increasingly feel pressed to make them attractive, too.

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It Pays to Be Kind: Snack-Bar Brand is Making a Profit -- And a Difference

It Pays to Be Kind: Snack-Bar Brand is Making a Profit -- And a Difference

Competing with General Mills and pushing social purpose, privately owned Kind claims sales of $125 million last year.

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CBS Largely Concludes Upfront Negotiations

CBS Largely Concludes Upfront Negotiations

The No. 1 network has found a way through the upfront slowdown that media buyers described all week.

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Amid Prism Denials, Online Ad Companies Face Trust Gap

Amid Prism Denials, Online Ad Companies Face Trust Gap

The Prism scandal is engulfing a host of tech companies already scrutinized for their use of personal data for advertising purposes.

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Catering to Local Tastes, McDonald's Finally Adds Rice to the Menu in China

Catering to Local Tastes, McDonald's Finally Adds Rice to the Menu in China

McDonald's is adding rice products to its menu for the first time in China, to better appeal to local tastes.

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Man Attempts Suicide, New York Post Makes Matt Lauer Joke

Man Attempts Suicide, New York Post Makes Matt Lauer Joke

Keepin' it classy as always: your New York Post.

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