Advertising: A Campaign Urges Listening to Those Torn by Mental Illness

While other campaigns focus on the mentally ill themselves, this effort focuses on the people around them, who can provide shelter by just listening to them.

    



Hollywood Advancing Clinton Film

Though CNN and NBC both scrapped plans to produce projects about Hillary Rodham Clinton, “Rodham,” a feature film about Mrs. Clinton’s years as a young lawyer, is moving ahead.

    



Breaking Up With ‘Breaking Bad’ Is Hard for Albuquerque

The popular series, which showcased Albuquerque’s grit and high-desert beauty, has helped the city become a star in its own right and given rise to an entire “Breaking Bad” economy.

    



Advertising: The Fight Against Bullying in Schools Expands to Store Shelves

Several companies are running public-service campaigns that target parents and children with calls for bravery and leadership.

    



Comment Ban Sets Off Debate

The magazine Popular Science has decided to shut off comments on its articles, saying ignorant, insulting and counterfactual posts were polluting the discourse and sowing confusion.

    



Shrinking List of Video Games Is Dominated by Blockbusters

As video game players’ tastes shift toward smartphones and tablets, more and more of the money spent on console games goes to a small number of blockbusters.

    



Campaign Spotlight: By the Light of the Silvery Spoon, Ads Propose Using Coffee as Creamer

A Maxwell House International Café campaign aims for a humorous, romantic effect.

    



Advertising: Apple Passes Coca-Cola as Most Valuable Brand

Apple, named most valuable brand by Interbrand, a corporate identity and brand consulting company, is one of five technology companies among the top 10.

    



Advertising: Time-Shifted Viewing, Plans for Las Vegas and Bossy Little Girls

Highlights of the 10th annual Advertising Week, including a panel discussion on a TV network’s advertising plans and a conversation with Sheryl Sandberg, of Facebook.

    



Advertising: A Big Week for the Advertising Industry, in Many Ways

For Advertising Week, 90,000 people, at more than a dozen locations, are attending 198 events featuring 798 speakers.

    



Advertising: Debating the Changing Economics of Editorial Content

Much attantion was focused on content as the 10th annual Advertising Week began in New York on Monday.

    



Advertising: Small Fry Feed Off Merger of Big Fish

Is big actually better or is small beautiful? Small is at least funnier, in the hands of rivals of the soon-to-merge Omnicom and Publicis.

    



Fox Contest Offers 30-Second Super Bowl Pregame Ad as a Prize

The contest is meant to tap into public interest in the advertising for the game by using social media to pick a winner. The entry fee is $150,000, however.

    



Advertising: Spot Shares Moments of Better Cruise Memories

Carnival Cruise Lines has created a new campaign it hopes will put behind it the incident that stranded passengers last February.

    



Live Commercials Coming to ‘Late Night’

The advertisements for Lexus will run during Jimmy Fallon’s taped talk show. A comedy troupe will come up with the commercials based on audience suggestions.

    



NBC Announces a Face-Lift, and One New Face, for ‘Today’

NBC outlined changes for its morning program, “Today,” which has lost about a quarter of its audience and is stuck in second place behind “Good Morning America.”

    



Shepard Smith to Run a ‘Breaking News Division’ at Fox

The new position will enable Fox News to add a new opinion program in prime time headed by Megyn Kelly.

    



Kimmel Fools Internet With Video of Twerking Gone Wrong

The TV host on Monday confessed to staging the video of a young woman’s dance that ends in flames. It became a sensation on YouTube and the local news.

    



Harder Edge From Vanity Fair Chafes Some Big Hollywood Stars

The magazine has sharpened its celebrity coverage and that has angered some in Hollywood.

    



Advertising: Campbell Bets on the Wisdom of a Child

Campbell’s campaign is meant to remind parents that a bowl of soup is an appealing alternative to fast food and pizza.