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Who Says You Can’t Do Something New With Billboards?

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Think about it, when was the last time you saw a truly unique billboard? I don’t mean a truly unique photograph or a great Photoshop trick on a billboard either; I mean a truly different idea of what a billboard can do.

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Get Lost

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I quit my job three weeks ago. I know I know. I’m crazy right? I worked for an awesome agency. I had a salary. Heck we even had a fully stocked bar in the middle of the office. So what gives?

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Targeted Television Advertising: The Future Can’t Get Here Fast Enough

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Think of all the time you’ve spent as a consumer watching ads that had nothing whatsoever to do with your interests. That’s time we’ll never get back. Wouldn’t that time have been better spent at least watching commercials that meant something to us?

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The Brand Hashtags of Super Bowl XLVII

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If Super Bowl XLVII demonstrated anything, it’s that Twitter has grown substantially in the past year – at least among advertisers. According to Twitter, there were 24.1 million tweets during the game, with 5.5 million occurring during the halftime show alone.

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End It With A Hashtag

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Since 1933 Newsweek has been the #2 weekly news magazine, with circulation and ad revenue second only to TIME. All of that ends with the December 31st issue…sort of.

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McDonald’s Invites You To Hashtag Your Way To The 2013 NFL Pro Bowl

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The fast food giant began running their first ever TV ad encouraging viewers to join their Twitter conversation.

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Samsung Gets A Royal Endorsement

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Samsung has had some fantastic (and humorous) ads for their Galaxy S III phone lately. The ads have been so good in fact that one can’t help but wonder why they’re not promoting their Galaxy Tab Android tablets with the same wonderful campaign. Maybe now they don’t have to.

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Why I Love the Ads On My Kindle

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Since March I’ve taken advantage of over a dozen offers on my Kindle, and only a few of them were for products or services being offered by Amazon themselves. The rest were all products that I have yet to see advertising for – for the most part because I avoid traditional advertising or, on the web at least, have trained my eyes to see content and not ad banners.

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iPhone 5 Means New Opportunities (and More Work) For Brands, Developers and Agencies

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by Olli Siebelt, head of client solutions The Famous Group, Culver City, CA With all the Advertising Week panels and workshops regarding new trends in mobile and content distribution, it only makes sense to take a quick look at Apple’s launch of iPhone 5 and consider what this latest version and iOS6 inclusion means to developers, marketers and ad people:…

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AWSC Around the World: Mobile Advertising Gains Traction in More Countries

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By AMY VALE Mobile advertising isn’t just a U.S. thing; it’s gaining traction and acceptance worldwide. That’s even more apparent from a recent report from eMarketer forecasting that growth and reception to mobile advertising in the U.S. and other countries will drive mobile ad spending worldwide to $6.4 billion in 2012, a 60% jump from $4 billion in 2011. The…

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