LONDON – Jamie Oliver, chef and food campaigner, is planning to launch a magazine before the end of the year and has also released a Nintendo DS computer game bearing his name.
NEW YORK – With the 2008 US presidential election just over a week away research into the two presidential candidates’ brand strategies has compared Barack Obama to Nokia and John McCain to Apple.
(TrendHunter.com) Columbian artist Maria Adelaida Lopez’s “Dust Houses” consists of cardboard doll houses covered in household dirt and dust from vacuum cleaner bags. The material was easily available when she had to clean…
The opening gross of “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” made it one of the most profitable films of the decade, good news for Disney as it tries to navigate the global economic downturn.
For the last few months, local stations, and to some degree networks, have been frolicking in money spent by the presidential campaigns.
A New Jersey appellate panel reversed a 2006 court decision that would have forced the author of a book about Donald J. Trump to reveal unnamed sources.
Steve Forbes makes an appearance on the cover of the free-market proponent to reassure readers about the economic upheaval.
Larry Olmsted has been blacklisted by the Guinness Book of World Records. Who is Larry Olmsted and how can a man possibly earn such a fate?
The owner of New Jersey’s largest newspaper has said the publication was on track to lose about $40 million this year.
By most estimates, teenagers and young adults have abandoned radio listening over the last decade. But that may be changing.
Although it’s illegal to photograph or videotape someone voting, the 2008 election will surely be the most recorded in history.
(TrendHunter.com) Arkansas anchorwoman Anne Pressly died this weekend due to injuries she sustained in a brutal attack in her home. As the police scour her area for clues and seek information on the attack, it’s hard to…
According to The Wall Street Journal, business executives represented by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce fear that Democrats, bouyed by heavy spending from organized labor, could gain enough muscle in the Senate to spark policies favoring increased unionization, higher taxes, more restrictions on trade and more regulation on the financial-services and housing sectors.
So, the Chamber is spending money on tight Senate races in key states. AK, OR, MN, NC, KY, MS, GA, OK, ME and NH all have incumbent Republican Senators at risk.
Overall, U.S. businesses tend to contribute similar amounts to Democrats and Republicans in their direct giving to candidates and political parties.
Now that Starbucks has found success with its oatmeal, you know that other marketers are seething with hot-cereal envy. Inevitably, they, too, are going to jump on the old-fashioned, down-home, frugal-yet-festive bandwagon.
The emphasis of this year's ANA conference, in these uncharted and perilous times, was on peeling back the complications of getting to the marketplace in the most direct and efficient way.
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Some days it seems the march toward an advertising-consumed world is inevitable — ads cover restroom stalls and subway turnstiles, account for more than a quarter of every TV hour and may soon be found in dentist chairs and on mayonnaise jars. But there's one surprising place in which clutter has gone down: the internet.
Just days before the Dow suffered its largest single-day point drop ever Sept. 29, Ad Age Editor Jonah Bloom sat down with three top CMOs to talk about marketing in a recession.
It's an invasion of ads on Google. They're showing up in places where the search engine has never had them before, with formats we've never seen.
LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) — Amid weekly stock-market paroxysms, rising bankruptcies, the continuing mortgage crisis and a surge in irrecoverable credit-card debt, Disney's Touchstone Pictures is readying what's looking to be an ill-timed release of "Confessions of a Shopaholic."
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