June 20, 2012
Mother Jones imagines what would happen if Super PACs were let loose in Westeros.
June 20, 2012
In Canada, McDonald's takes to YouTube to explain food photography.
June 13, 2012
In what sounds like a cool idea to boost tourism, Sweden has handed over its Twitter handle, @sweden, to a different Swedish citizen each week. And then Stephen Colbert pointed out a few shortcomings.
June 07, 2012
Oil giant says it has no knowledge of a news release threatening a suit over an earlier hoax video.
June 06, 2012
Product gets plug in Morgan Spurlock movie, but male-nether-region cleansers still struggle for acceptance.
June 06, 2012
Behold, a comedic sketch showing us a future in which soda is sold on the black market.
June 04, 2012
Stevia-based Zevia is running subway ads declaring its support for Mike Bloomberg's proposed sugary-drink ban.
June 01, 2012
Jon Stewart went after New York's proposed ban on large sugary drinks. And he didn't even mention doughnuts.
June 01, 2012
Bloomberg's proclamation unveiled along with 1-foot-in-diameter Entenmann's doughnuts.
May 31, 2012
Psychic Friends turn to web, social media and a new celebrity to reach younger demographic.
May 29, 2012
"We feel Five Wives Vodka concept is offensive to a prominent segment of our population and will not be carried," according to a letter from the Idaho State Liquor Division to an Idaho distributor wishing to carry it.
May 17, 2012
The dance-music diva's megahits did more than flood dance floors and top the charts; Ms. Summer's songs were used in plenty of commercials, well after disco's peak in the 1970s and 1980s.
May 14, 2012
In The Onion's latest marketing story, BuzzBee is given a childhood of misery as part of a rebranding effort.
May 10, 2012
How an ad sales guy proposed to an agency digital media director.
May 09, 2012
Andy Warhol put it on one of his posters, and Tilar Mazzeo wrote a book about it. Now one of Hollywood's most famous actors will be the face of it.
May 08, 2012
Hudson & Broad, which has sued JC Penney, has released a video appealing directly to spokeswoman Ellen DeGeneres.
May 08, 2012
Despite complaints by Martin Sorrell, Y&R and the British government, Argentina refuses to stop running a controversial spot in which an Argentine athlete secretly trains for the London Olympics on the Falkland Islands, where Britain and Argentina went to war over who owns the tiny islands.
May 04, 2012
Cee Lo and 'Voice' co-star remix Meow Mix jingle. But is someone hiding the truth about Purrfect?
May 03, 2012
Consumers Union took out a full-page ad in Politico today bashing Facebook's privacy policies--or lack thereof.
May 02, 2012
Anil Dash ripped into Popchips after the company posted a video of Ashton Kutcher in what the tech guru called 'brownface.' But a call from the founder smoothed things over.
