Sustainable Art Exhibits – New York Japan Society Honors Bamboo (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If you are fortunate to be able to attend the New York Japan Society’s ‘New Bamboo:  Contemporary Japanese Masters’ exhibit from October 4, 2008, through January 11, 2009, you’re in for a treat.  You’ll…

Pop Culture Plugs Macy’s in Nostalgia Montage

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Part of doing Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years “properly” is reflecting on how they’ve been done before, a cultural habit that primes everybody for Memory Lane.

50 Innovations in Packaging

Product packaging is one of the most influential tools companies use to persuade you to buy. It’s like that instant you lay your eyes on the Diet Coke bottle wrapped in a Roberto Cavalli animal print–you…

You Have a Face That’s Perfect for Radio — and Now TV!


Our culture is in an odd moment, fixated on the most beautiful of the beautiful but drawn at the same time to the realest of the real.

Amid Meltdown, Crain Websites Delivered What You Needed — Fast


The financial meltdown that brought great institutions to their knees was a defining moment for Crain Communications — one that brought our internet coverage to the forefront.

Holiday Film Season ‘as Bad as Can Be’


LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) — Having spent the last several years marginalizing film reviewers either by making "critic-proof" blockbusters or by refusing to screen certain films for critics at all, Hollywood has suddenly presented itself with an awkward Christmas gift: a year-end glut of expensive, hard-to-market films whose success depends on critics.

Credit Crunch Takes Bite Out of McDonald’s

CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — The banking crisis is threatening to take a rather surprising hostage: McDonald's big-budget coffee rollout.

Don’t Quit Your Day Job to Start Something New


For people who want to start their own successful companies, the part-time path to full-time success has become an increasingly common business strategy. In fact, based on my own experience and that of other entrepreneurs, I've come to believe that starting part time carries major advantages.

What Is Your Trust Share?


Today, most organizations commonly refer to the meaning of share in terms of market share, profit share, revenue share and share of wallet. What they often foolishly overlook, however, is that they are also competing with other organizations for share of trust.

Dave Peacock on Bud’s New Owners and the Great American Lager


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Ad Age caught up with A-B VP-Marketing Dave Peacock moments after his speech on — what else? — change at the recent National Beer Wholesalers Association convention in San Francisco.

Reality Check: Google Is Already Fixing Ad Prices


Two publisher and advertiser associations are worried that the Google-Yahoo deal will lead to price fixing, but here's a reality check: Google's been fixing prices for ages.

Google Places a Call to Bargain Hunters

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — ShopSavvy and CompareEverywhere are developing comparative shopping software to take advantage of Google's G1 phone, which has camera technology to read UPC codes.

Mccain Winning Search-Ad Race


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — John McCain may not know how to use e-mail, but his campaign apparently knows how to use search. It's one technology area where the Republican seems to be besting Barack Obama.

Advertising Week Finds Cause


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Five years after its inception, Advertising Week has blossomed in size and found a much-needed purpose in becoming a focal point for some of the industry's biggest pro bono efforts.

Chase Now Lead Ad Spender in Shrinking Sector

YORK, Pa. (AdAge.com) — JPMorgan Chase will look to reassure Washington Mutual customers that their money is safe and rebrand all WaMu banks as fast as possible after snapping up its troubled rival for a bargain $1.9 billion.

Second-Quarter Spending Plunge Worst Since 2001

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Think last week was rough? Turns out the first half of the year wasn't anything to crow about either. Figures released by TNS Media Intelligence show that the second quarter of 2008 saw the steepest quarterly drop in ad spending since 2001.

That’s Reassuring: As the Banks Fall, Ads Mount Up


YORK, Pa. (AdAge.com) — As iconic banking institutions continued to fall — the most recent being Washington Mutual, driven into the arms of JPMorgan Chase — financial service advertisers went into overdrive trying to calm consumers.

Marketers Hit Hard by Credit Crisis

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — With banks in bunker mode and hoarding cash, marketers are beginning to feel the effects of credit drying up.

Karmazin: Damned if He Does — and if He Doesn’t


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Sirius XM Radio CEO Mel Karmazin wants to change the way radio audiences are measured. He just has no clue how to do it.

Retailers Brace for Season’s Beatings

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — With an escalating consumer-credit crisis, five fewer shopping days, looming retail bankruptcies and the lowest projected sales growth in years, it's going to be a cutthroat Christmas.