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Fashion Company Uses Women With PhDs As Models

Betabrand, an online retailer of crowdsourced clothing, just launched its spring line, and the company decided to take a different approach to marketing the new looks: Each of the models would have a...

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AdWeek Thinks These Ads Are Extremely Offensive But We Laughed

They say it's "the world's worst advertiser." We say these ads are funny. They say the ads don't "qualify as any sort of humor whatsoever." We say "HAHAHAHAHA!" You decide, and then comment in AdWeek's...

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'Mad Men' Wishes You A Happy Secretary's Day With Non-Secretaries

In a curious move, the AMC show's Twitter account is celebrating the occasion with a photo featuring two former secretaries, Joan and Peggy. Why not use current secretaries Dawn and Shirley, both of...

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'Yes, John Oliver, We Are Stupid F*cking Idiots'

When John Oliver mercilessly skewers an ad because the taxpayer-funded product it promoted flopped, what's the agency that created the ad to do?

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Russian Models Troll Instagram With Super-Sexy Hashtags And Photos That Won't...

There's nothing worse than waiting for something to download on your phone, especially if you are a 14-year-old boy waiting for sexy models to appear in your Instagram feed.

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Burger King Pulled Twitter Ad When Robin Williams News Broke

A BK rep told Adweek via email that the move was "out of respect for Robin Williams and his fans."

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I Ate Taco Bell's Entire New Dollar Menu In One Sitting, And Here's What I...

They rang me up for the 11 items. I handed over $12.99. And a short drive later, I arrived home with two satisfyingly hefty sacks of warm, damp, processed food. It was time to get started.

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Up To Half Of Internet Traffic Is Bot Traffic

Digital advertising will take in $43.8 billion next year, and $6.3 billion will be based on the fraudulent activity.

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Instagram Is Now Bigger Than Twitter

Instagram now has 300 million monthly users, surpassing Twitter's official user count of 284 million.

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ESPN's College Football Championship Scored Cable's Highest Ratings Ever

College football's inaugural playoff championship game on Monday night is now in the books as the high-rated cable television program of all time, drawing a staggering 18.5 overnight rating, according...

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Snapchat Asks Brands For $750,000 To Advertise And Won't Budge

Brands balk at paying top dollar for one day of disappearing ads.

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MTV Marks MLK Day By Airing In Black And White

The PSAs that will air during the black-and-white programming block focus on encouraging open discussions of race rather than simply trying to ignore the cultural, social and political realities of...

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GoDaddy Pulls Super Bowl Ad After Complaints About 'Puppy Mill' Humor

On the same day it released its 2015 Super Bowl ad online, GoDaddy quickly responded to a wave of criticism from dog advocates and said it would not air the spot on the game.

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Vince Vaughn And The Stars Of 'Unfinished Business' Are Here For All Your...

Twentieth Century Fox has teamed up with iStock by Getty Images to create a set of stock photos featuring Vaugh along with co-stars Tom Wilkinson, Dave Franco and others.

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Tinder Users At SXSW Are Falling For This Woman, But She's Not What She Appears

Well, this is sneaky — and for some, a little heartbreaking.

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Watch A Calligrapher Perfectly Draw Famous Logos From Scratch With Pen And Ink

English designer and calligrapher Seb Lester magically re-creates the logos and marks of iconic brands like Google, Adidas, Star Wars and Converse with pen and ink and a steady hand.

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Audi Makes Fun Of Women Drivers (But Not Really) In Curious Twitter Campaign

The automaker last week posted a series of images that appeared to make fun of women drivers — including scenes of poorly parked cars and men in passenger seats looking terrified. The tweets were...

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Tinder's Twitter 'Meltdown' Appears To Have Been A Planned PR Stunt

Tinder threw a very public tantrum on Twitter last night, and it's roundly being described as a cringeworthy meltdown. But instead of being the off-the-cuff ramblings of a frustrated Tinder employee...

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The Shameless Cocaine Ads Of The '70s

While drug paraphernalia and merchandise ads have remained in circulation for decades, with marijuana-related items obviously being a hot industry today, it's fascinating to look back on the highly...

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How Volkswagen Just Squandered 55 Years Of Great Advertising

The emissions deception flushes decades of hard-earned goodwill.

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