Tag Archives: Amazon

New York Times Goes Native with Russian Nesting Ads

Posted on August 15, 2016 by Campaign Outsider

From our State of the Cuisinart Marketing desk As the hardtracking staff noted last year, the New York Times has taken to running print ads promoting the native advertising its T Brand Studio creates for marketers. Representative sample: … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Amazon, Christie's, Citi, Delta, Loving Hearts, Margaret Sullivan, Mark Thompson, MTV, New York Times, Philips, Realizing a Dream, Reuters Institute Digital News Report, Russian nesting ads, schlimbesserung, Sneak ADtack, State of the Cuisinart Marketing, T Brand Studio, The Progress Makers, UBS, What It Takes to Be Human | Leave a comment

Round Midnight at the Global Worldwide Headquarters (Wishbone Ash Rockpalast ’76 Edition)

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Let’s stipulate (as they say on Law & Order) that Andy Powell of Wishbone Ash was one helluva lead guitarist. Then let’s enjoy this Rockpalast Cologne gig in 1976 (especially Time Was and Blowin’ Free 59:40-1:14:18). Channeling Amazon, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Amazon, Andy Powell, Blowin' Free, Error of My Ways, Handy, Jimi Hendrix, Law & Order, Rockpalast Cologne 1976, Time Was, Wishbone Ash | 2 Comments

Hey, Jeff Bezos: Welcome to the Amazone!

Posted on August 11, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

For several months now, online giant Amazon has been leaning on publishing pygmy Hachette in order to exact more, well, tribute for its bookselling. Improbably, Hachette has fought back, taking a hatchet to the Beast of Bezos. From Deadline Hollywood: Grisham, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Amazon, Amazone, Beast of Bezos, Deadline Hollywood, Hachette, Henry Louis Gates, Jeff Bezos, John Grisham, New York Times, Robert Caro, Ron Chernow, Sebastian Junger, Stephen King, Susan Cheever | 2 Comments

Ask Dr. Ads: What’s Up With The ‘Reform Government Surveillance’ Ad?

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Doc opened up the old mailbag today and here’s what poured out. Dear Dr. Ads, I don’t read the New York Times much (I’m a Washington Post kind of guy), but I happened upon Monday’s edition and here’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Acting Surgeon General, Amazon, AOL, Apple, Ask Dr. Ads, Boris D. Lushniak, Facebook, Google, Internet, Jeff Bezos, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Mom 'n' Pop-Up site, Murderers' Row, New York Times, Pres. Obama, Reform Government Surveillance, Silicon Valley, Twitter, Washington Post, Yahoo | Leave a comment

FTC To Go Negative On Native Advertising?

Posted on September 19, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

The hardtracking staff has been negligent in, well, tracking developments in stealth marketing over the past few weeks. So, the missing links. From Digiday: The New Yorker Goes Native In January, when the Atlantic ran sponsored content on behalf of Scientology, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Ad Age, advertorials, Amazon, Digiday, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, Jeff Bezos, Mashable, Mental Floss, native advertising, paidContent, promoted tweets, Sneak ADtack, sponsored content, The New Yorker, Washington Post | Leave a comment

NYT Book Reviewer Deconstructs Tsarnaev Brothers’ Social Media Narrative

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times’ intrepid book reviewer, had a front-page piece in Wednesday’s edition detailing the digital doings of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Unraveling Boston Suspects’ Online Lives, Link by Link It is America’s first fully interactive national … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Amazon, Boston Marathon, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Twitter, VKontakte, YouTube | 3 Comments

Whitey Wars In Local Dailies

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

From our Dueling Excerpts desk For the past three days, the Boston Herald has been excerpting columnist Howie Carr’s new book Rifleman: The Untold Story of Stevie Flemmi, Whitey Bulger’s Partner. (The hardreading staff suspects that lots of the book is … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Amazon, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Howie Carr, It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, Kevin Cullen, Rifleman: The Untold Story of Stevie Flemmi, Shelly Murphy, Whitey Bulger, Whitey Bulger's Partner, Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice | 1 Comment

For All You Know, Facebook Owns Your First-Born Child

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

The New York Times reports that “despite how much we say we value our privacy — and we do, again and again — we tend to act inconsistently,” which is the Times-nice way of saying stupidly. To half-wit: Letting Down Our Guard … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alessandro Acquisti, Amazon, California, Carnegie Mellon University, Facebook, Google, New York Times, online privacy, Right to Know Act, Sneak ADtack, Wall Street Journal | Leave a comment

Fashion Designers Beware! Amazon Goes Glamazon!

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Fashion houses across America are quaking in their Do-Me boots over this two-page ad in Sunday’s New York Times: Apparently it’s not enough that Amazon rules the book, CD, and appliance worlds. Now they want to Occupy Seventh Avenue. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 7th Ave., Amazon, Damnazon, Do-Me boots, Glamazon, New York Times, Seventh Avenue | 2 Comments

Data-Mining Kids: Internet Players Are Agile, Mobile, And Hostile

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

That’s what legendary Texas Longhorns coach Darrell Royal said he wanted hisplayers to be – except he pronounced it a-gile, mo-bile, and hos-tile. But that’s what the Federal Trade Commission does not want current kids’ app developers to be in tracking them on tablets and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Amazon, Apple, FTC, Google, lobby, mobile apps, PBS NewsHour, Sneak ADtack, tracking, Waldorf-Astoria, Wall Street Journal | Leave a comment