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Mad Men Recap: Need for Speed

Mad Men Recap: Need for Speed

That the electrifying opening -- a frantic tight shot in a speeding car, the sudden appearance of a gun -- was not even the strangest moment tells you just how bizarre last night's episode was.

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Former Initiative CEO Nick Pahade Takes Reins at Poptent

The former agency exec will be tasked with striking more content deals with brands, agencies and publishers.

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Upfront Brings New Scheduling Strategy for Broadcast Nets

Upfront Brings New Scheduling Strategy for Broadcast Nets

The line between broadcast and cable is continuing to disappear. Already cable has managed to snag broadcast-level audiences, produce broadcast-quality shows and, in some cases, command broadcast-style ad rates.

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Financial Times Becomes the Latest Media Site Hacked Over Syria

Financial Times Becomes the Latest Media Site Hacked Over Syria

Media brands and marketers seem oddly powerless to stop Twitter takeovers. But like The Onion's takeover last week, The Financial Times seems to have been tricked into revealing information.

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Why Facebook and Twitter Are Developing 'Glassware' Despite Ad Ban

Why Facebook and Twitter Are Developing 'Glassware' Despite Ad Ban

Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr are developing apps for Google Glass even though they can't sell ads there.

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Machinima Adds a Big New Distribution Platform in XBox Live

Machinima Adds a Big New Distribution Platform in XBox Live

One of YouTube's largest channels is expanding to Xbox Live in 41 global markets.

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NBC's $800M Ad Haul for 2014 Winter Games Might not Include A-B InBev

NBC's $800M Ad Haul for 2014 Winter Games Might not Include A-B InBev

Coke, AT&T and GM already signed up for Sochi coverage; A-B InBev's Chibe says TV not only game in town.

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Telemundo Partners With Ryan Seacrest and Donald Trump

Telemundo Partners With Ryan Seacrest and Donald Trump

Along with the usual telenovela fare, Telemundo is opening a studio to develop bilingual programming.

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Newsweek.com Redesign Aims to Be 'Snow Fall' on a Weekly Basis

Newsweek.com Redesign Aims to Be 'Snow Fall' on a Weekly Basis

Newsweek is trying to reinvent the magazine experience for the browser-based web with a new, weekly website. It's free for now, but executives plan a metered pay wall.

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Parenting and Babytalk Magazines Shut Down in Sale to Meredith

Parenting and Babytalk Magazines Shut Down in Sale to Meredith

Subscribers will receive Meredith's own Parents and American Baby magazines instead; at least 60 staffers are losing their jobs.

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No Need to Dream of Interactive TV -- It's Already Here

No Need to Dream of Interactive TV -- It's Already Here

It's not worth waiting for seamless, TV-based interactive video. Devices and infrastructure are already in place.

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Can Dunder Mifflin Paper Brand Continue Past Thursday's Finale of 'The Office'?

Can Dunder Mifflin Paper Brand Continue Past Thursday's Finale of 'The Office'?

Staples-owned Quill.com is planning an ad push for its Dunder Mifflin brand around the final episode of the NBC sitcom. But it isn't stopping there.

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Why Craft-Brew Shiner's Bigger Footprint Won't Include a TV Buy

Why Craft-Brew Shiner's Bigger Footprint Won't Include a TV Buy

Despite expansion, Shiner stays true to core fans by sticking with its hometown agency and "comfortable" mix of digital, out-of-home and print that communicates brew's Texan personality.

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'America's Funniest Home Videos' Now Available for Brands

'America's Funniest Home Videos' Now Available for Brands

Twenty-three years of show's footage will be open to advertisers and brands for use in commercials -- for a fee, of course.

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ABC Viewers Buy More Tissue -- And Why That Matters

ABC Viewers Buy More Tissue -- And Why That Matters

NCS rolls out system that lets buyers and sellers run instant analyses to understand how heavily the "Modern Family" audience is weighted with tissue-brand switchers.

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Mindshare's Winning Streak Continues With TGI Friday's Win

Mindshare's Winning Streak Continues With TGI Friday's Win

The WPP media agency has won TGI Friday's media-buying and planning business.

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Lucky Magazine, Looking for a Turnaround, Starts With Print 'Evolution'

Lucky Magazine, Looking for a Turnaround, Starts With Print 'Evolution'

The shopping magazine, which has outlasted its print imitators but now has its own struggles, is leaving the studio for the real world more often.

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'Mad Men' Recap: Don Is Not My Co-Pilot

'Mad Men' Recap: Don Is Not My Co-Pilot

Don doesn't drink blood -- at least not yet -- but last night was an object lesson in how the 1968 version of Don Draper wields power in the office and out. It's not a pretty sight.

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Where Will the TV Buyers Spend Their $9.2 Billion?

Where Will the TV Buyers Spend Their $9.2 Billion?

The TV-upfront chess game is about to begin. With about $9.2 billion in broadcast-advertising commitments on the line, here's how the top six are positioned.

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Why Les Moonves Doesn't Care If You Don't Think CBS Is Sexy

Why Les Moonves Doesn't Care If You Don't Think CBS Is Sexy

Defiant TV-on-TV defender insists mass trumps digital content and social engagement -- and his numbers "speak for themselves."

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