Advertising on Social Media Bumps Up Against Free Speech

Social media sites are trying to determine what sort of control they have over user-generated content, particularly when it affects advertising.

    

Advertising: Mountain Dew to Introduce a Sponsored Web Site

PepsiCo and Complex Media are collaborating to produce a Web site that will focus on subjects like fashion, music and sports for a young male audience.

    

Dove Ad on Women’s Self-Image Creates an Online Sensation

A video focusing on Dove’s findings that only 4 percent of women consider themselves beautiful has been viewed more than seven million times on YouTube.

    

Advertising: Nationwide Insurance Teams Up With ‘Mad Men’

The insurance company made a deal with AMC to sponsor the entire sixth season of the series.

Advertising: Gillette Promotes a New Shaver Using QR Codes

Gillette is promoting a new shaving tool for a man’s beard, chest and back by having women express their varying opinions about how much hair a man should have.

Advertising: Degree Deodorant Introduces Unisex Ad Campaign

Eight years after dividing into Degree Men and Degree Women, the Degree brand of deodorant is advertising its products under one creative umbrella.

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.

Advertising: Vaseline Adds a Body Lotion Spray to Its Line

Vaseline is introducing a line of moisturizing body lotion sprays that it claims go on easily and do not mark clothing.