If you're going to run a social media giveaway for your company, don't do what Sunny Co did. The apparel company launched an Instagram contest sponsored by the Twazer app promising to give away a red Pamela swimsuit, which normally costs $64.99, for just the price of shipping and handling to each person who reposted...
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May 05, 2017
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Experts from Huge and Ketchum weigh in on Sunny Co's fiasco.
By Erik Oster
If you're going to run a social media giveaway for your company, don't do what Sunny Co did. The apparel company launched an Instagram contest sponsored by the Twazer app promising to give away a red Pamela swimsuit, which normally costs $64.99, for just the price of shipping and handling to each person who reposted...
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Bud Light hits Britain with a croak
By Patrick Coffee
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By Katie Richards
TBWA\Chiat\Day, the brand's AOR since 2014, won't participate in the review
By Patrick Coffee
Airbnb, the online marketplace for short-term renters and hosts around the world, has placed its global creative advertising business in review. Incumbent TBWA\Chiat\Day will not participate. TBWA became the company's first global agency of record after a 2014 pitch led by its Los Angeles office. The spark for that review was the arrival of chief...
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Incumbent KBS declines to participate
By Patrick Coffee
By nearly all accounts, the retail business is struggling. One rare exception, however, is TJX, the parent company of T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, Sierra Trading Post and HomeGoods. TJX saw its sales top estimates in the last quarter of 2016, and in February, its leaders announced plans to launch a new line of stores to tackle...
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Is it a holy plume ... or a cigarette?
By Angela Natividad
In addition to being the first-ever American Pope, the youngest one, and Jude Law, The Young Pope's got a big responsibility on his shoulders: Keeping HBO rolling in viewership while Game of Thrones takes a dragon nap. Its capacity to do this from a storytelling perspective is debatable (even if it's already given us a...
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It's surprisingly complex
By Angela Natividad
Home is a lot more nuanced than a mere hearth, especially for a generation whose priorities and identities mark major changes from what preceded them. "Home Truths," a short film created for U.K.-based department store Selfridges and directed by Kathryn Ferguson, explores what home means now. Some answers will always be the same: "Just finding...
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Vehicle, and brand, trek to unfamiliar places
By David Gianatasio
Doctor, I keep having this dream about a 27-foot-long hot dog rolling through a tunnel. Wait, that's no dream. It's an awesomely Freudian scene from Oscar Mayer's new video chronicling the Wienermobile's voyage to Whittier, Alaska, population 220. The trek required 1,200 miles of driving plus 3,000 miles via barge, and touts "radical" product changes...
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Camp Chef's version of Morgan Freeman
By T.L. Stanley
Fans of backyard barbecues: Let the Grill god show you the light. He'll also bring the heat, but don't worry, it's not hellfire. No repenting necessary. The ad character, created by viral video mavens the Harmon Brothers, is a toga-wearing home cook who'll whip up something carnivorously divine while a gospel choir provides a rousing...
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