Advertising: With Previews, Super Bowl Advertisers Borrow From Hollywood

Chatter on social media outlets like Twitter helps encourage Super Bowl advertisers to release commercials early to whet consumers’ appetite for the game-day ads.

    



Advertising: Super Bowl Ads to Help Start Busy Season

The power of big-event television is on display as perhaps never before.

    



Advertising: Lessons Learned, H&M Returns to Super Bowl With New Beckham Spot

H&M will poll the public about how its commercial should end in an effort to make the spot more effective and engaging.

    



Campaign Spotlight: The Twist to This Pro Bono Campaign? The Rights are Priced

A North Carolina charity that fights homelessness and poverty urges donors to purchase naming rights to everything it needs, from a can of corn to caseworkers. Donors receive personalized certificates that can be shared in social media or printed as posters.

    



Advertising: Yogurt Joins Super Bowl Snack Parade

Two brands of Greek-style yogurt, Chobani and Dannon Oikos, have bought commercial time during the game.

    



Super Bowl Ads Get Their Own Pregame Show (and It’s an Early One)

YouTube and Hulu are promoting teaser commercials for ads that will appear during the game on Feb. 2.

    



Advertising: Have Your Job and Moonlight, Too

Ad agencies add side projects to tap the entrepreneurial spirit of employees who have creative energy to spare.

    



For Super Bowl, It’s Back to Basics for Anheuser-Busch

The Anheuser-Busch division of Anheuser-Busch InBev has a game plan for Super Bowl XLVIII that focuses on Bud Light and Budweiser.

    



Advertising: Dastardly, British and Brand New to the Super Bowl

Jaguar is using three British actors known for their roles as villains to give its F-Type coupe a sophisticated cool factor at the biggest ad event of the American calendar.

    



Campaign Spotlight: Time’s Up for ‘Ticking’ as Wearability Supplants Reliability in Watch Pitches

A campaign for Timex Group USA will focus on style and authenticity to reach a new generation.

    



Advertising: Visa Trims Slogan to Expand Meaning

“It’s everywhere you want to be,” has become “Everywhere you want to be” to highlight many options available under the Visa brand umbrella, including mobile and electronic payments.

    



SodaStream to Bring Some Heat to Super Bowl Ad With Scarlett Johansson

The ad for the home soda-making system is part of a multiyear, worldwide endorsement deal.

    



Advertising: Agency to Stream a Daily Show About the Sundance Festival

Weber Shandwick will join the Sundance Institute in producing “Live@Sundance,” an hourlong show, on YouTube.

    



Republican Pollster Teams With Madison Avenue Agencies

Frank Luntz is selling a majority stake in Luntz Global to MDC Partners, an agency holding group that owns more than 50 agencies.

    



Advertising: New Agency, a Spinoff, Will Aim Its Message at a Hispanic Audience

The JeffreyGroup, an agency known mainly for public relations, is creating a new agency to provide cross-cultural marketing to Hispanics.

    



Advertising Age to Reduce Its Print Frequency

The former weekly trade magazine will publish only 25 times a year and is following a similar move by New York magazine.

    



Advertising: New Campaign Markets Activia to Wider Audience

A new campaign for the yogurt brand aims to reach younger consumers and men, without the actress Jamie Lee Curtis.

    



Advertising: A Skin Care Purchase That Benefits More Than Your Face

For six weeks, Kiehl’s is donating all the net profits from the sale of its Midnight Recovery Concentrate to the Keep a Child Alive organization.

    



Campaign Spotlight: ‘Light Up Their Lives,’ Student-Created Ads Ask

Schneider Electric joined forces with students at Miami University of Ohio to promote an electric-vehicle charging station and help those without electricity.

    



Advertising: A Message That Tries to Blend In

Hennessy is combining a traditional campaign in Vanity Fair with so-called native advertising, ads made to look like the magazine’s editorial content.