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WSJ Print Advertising Touts WSJ-Produced Native Advertising
From the Russian Nesting Ads desk at Sneak Adtack This week the Wall Street Journal started running tag-team ads in its print edition that direct readers to digital ads created by the paper’s in-house native advertising shop. This quarter-page ad, for … Continue reading
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Tagged Axios, Cole Haan, Fitch Group, ICSC, International Council of Shopping Centers, J Crew, Lands' End, Neiman Marcus, New York Times, Russian nesting ads, Scott Galloway, Sears, Sneak ADtack, State of the Cuisinart Marketing, Talbots, The Four, The Retail Implosion, Wall Street Journal, WSJ Custom Studios, WSJ.
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Time’s Up for Lena Dunham in the Ranks of the Sisterhood
Harvey Weinstein Fallout, Exhibit Umpteen: A group of high-profile show business women have formed a group called Time’s Up, which describes itself as “a unified call for change from women in entertainment for women everywhere.” New York Times culture reporter … Continue reading
Todd Heisler Wins NYT ‘Year in Pictures’ Bakeoff
As you splendid readers doubtless realize by now, the hardlooking staff annually tallies the results of the New York Times Year in Pictures review. And that time-honored tradition continues with this year’s edition. Header: Tragedy. Triumph. Trump. Photographs that tell … Continue reading
Opioid-Pushing Sacklers Administer Advertising Methadone
Let us now speak of the Sackler brothers – Arthur, Mortimer, and Raymond – patriarchs of the pharmaceutical-fueled family that has made billions of dollars from the sale of OxyContin, the marketing of which has undeniably triggered America’s current opioid … Continue reading
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Tagged American Museum of Natural History, Berlin Jewish Museum, Chris Christie, Christopher Glazek, Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, Esquire, Guggenheim Museum, Harvard University, Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford's Ashmolean, Oxycontin, Patrick Radden Keefe, Peking University, Purdue Pharma, Royal Academy, Sackler, Sackler Courtyard, Sackler family, September 11th every three weeks, Smithsonian, Tate Modern, Temple of Dendur, The New Yorker, Victoria and Albert Museum
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New York Times Keeps Pimping Out Its Staffers to Subscribers
As the hardworking staff has previously noted, the New York Times routinely deploys its journalists to accompany (and schmooze with) civilians on Times Journeys to the four corners of the earth – an enterprise that is rife with potential conflicts … Continue reading
Blogola Goes Big-Time in Mainstream Media
For several years now the hardtracking staff has noted the growing use of blogola in violation of Federal Trade Commission guidelines, from Lord & Taylor’s paying 50 bloggers under the table to wear a dress from its Design Lab clothing collection and … Continue reading
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Tagged blogola, blogolanaut, Business Insider, Design Lab, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Federal Trade Commission, Forbes, FTC, Honda, Huffington Post, HuffPost, Inc., Jason Feifer, John Biggs, Jon Christian, Lord & Taylor, Mario Ruiz, Mashable, pay-for-bray, TechCrunch, The Outline, Varun Satyam
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U.S. Tobacco Companies Run Ads Attacking Themselves
From our M.C. Escher desk Yesterday, this full-page ad ran in about 50 major U.S. newspapers. And for the next year, this TV spot will run five times a week during prime time on ABC, NBC, and CBS. … Continue reading
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Tagged Altria, Big Tobacco, Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition, Katie Lannan, Lorillard, M.C. Escher, Master Settlement Agreement, New York Times, Philip Morris USA, R.J. Reynolds, Richmond Times-Dispatch, RICO, Robert N. Proctor, Stanford, State House News Service, The Salem News, Tobacco Free Kids
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Dead Blogging ‘Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec’ at Currier Museum
Well the Missus and I trundled up to the Granite State over the weekend to catch The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec: Prints and Posters from the Museum of Modern Art (through January 7) at the Currier Museum of Art and say, it was … Continue reading
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