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The Secrets Life Of Marketers

Posted on February 21, 2012 by

Must-read cover piece in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, detailing the means and methods marketers exercise to extract consumer information that nails you to the selling post: How Companies Learn Your Secrets Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for … Continue reading →

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TV Needs More “Modern Family” Values

Posted on January 30, 2012 by

Given the distressing – and depressing – state of product placement in television programs these days (see here for an especially egregious example), it was good to see this (via Advertising Age): Many Brands Bid for Product Placement on ‘Modern Family,’ but So Few Make … Continue reading →

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The Weekly Standard Sells Out

Posted on July 21, 2011 by

Not on newsstands. On its cover. That’s the front cover of the July 25, 2011 edition of the Weekly Standard. Except it’s not. It’s actually an ad for an outfit called Main Street Fairness, an Astroturf front group backed by Wal-Mart, … Continue reading →

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Wal-Mart Masquerades As Main Street In Battle With Amazon

Posted on June 8, 2011 by

It’s the very definition of irony: Wal-Mart, longtime nemesis of mom-and-pop stores nationwide, is now bankrolling The Alliance for Main Street Fairness, a front group (also funded by Best Buy, Target, Sears, and Home Depot) lobbying for sales taxes on … Continue reading →

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Ad o’ the Day (pat. pending)

Posted on September 24, 2009 by

So rock band Pearl Jam finally extricated itself from a seven-album deal with Sony that took 15 years to fulfill and they wind up signing with . . . Target? Here’s the TV spot promoting Pearl Jam’s new offering Backspacer, … Continue reading →

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