Campaign Spotlight: New Running Shoe Line Says, ‘Come Fly With Me’

The Great Society is the creative agency for the lighthearted Brooks Sports campaign, which is scheduled to introduce the Transcend line of footwear Saturday.

    



New York Times to Unveil Redesigned Website Next Week

The new platform, which will be rolled out Jan. 8., will be available immediately to some readers in a test group.

    



Advertising: Mars Promotes Bite-Size Snickers, Following Hershey’s Cue

Mars will begin using advertising and social media this week to promote Snickers Bites, the first new Snickers product since 2011.

    

Campaign Spotlight: Marketer Has New ‘Bee’ in Its Bonnet: Frozen Meals

A campaign for Bumble Bee SuperFresh has a budget estimated at $25 million, a significant investment for a company that had no measured ad spending in major media last year.

    

Conversations: Dollar Shave Club, From Viral Video to Real Business

Dollar Shave Club took 12,000 orders for its subscription razor service in the first two days after a promotional video it released went viral.

    

Media Decoder Blog: The Breakfast Meeting: New Ways to Swap E-Content and Time Warner’s Spinoff Trend

Apple and Amazon are trying to make it possible for Web consumers to swap content on a grand scale, Time Warner’s spinoff of Time Inc. is the latest evidence of a strategy of divestment, and Facebook’s redesign strategy is already popular with advertisers.