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Tag Archives: New York Times
Chipotle Chips Away at Advertising/Entertainment Separation
It’s the latest episode in advertainment. Chipotle Mexican Grill will soon release Farmed and Dangerous, a “four-part comedy series on the TV-streaming service Hulu that takes a satirical look at industrial-scale farming,” according to a New York Times report. “Farmed and Dangerous,” billed … Continue reading
Major Credit Cards Run Ads Covering Their Assets
Here in the United States of Hackmerica (everyone wave to the NSA and give your pin numbers to Target!), at least some companies are guaranteeing the security of their customers. Sort of. Exhibits A and B: These full-page ads in … Continue reading
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Tagged MasterCard, New York Times, NSA, Target, United States of Hackmerica, VISA, zero liability
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Apparently Michael Bloomberg Did NOT Pay for a NYT Ad Praising Michael Bloomberg
As you splendid readers of this thing might remember, last month the hardworking staff wondered about this full-page ad that ran – twice – in the New York Times. What we wondered, specifically, was whether outgoing New York … Continue reading
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Tagged Appreciative New Yorkers, Gawker, Henry Hudson, Michael Bloomberg, New York Times, Snarker
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The Sneak in Review: Native (Advertising) Intelligence
The Reading Room at the Global Worldwide Headquarters of Sneak Adtack is starting to fill up, so the hardtracking staff is offloading these ads ‘n’ ends. Start with this piece from the New York Times: Promoting Its Own Products, a Magazine … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrienne LaFrance, ads 'n' ends, advertorials, Better Business Bureau, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Federal Trade Commission, MediaPost, National Advertising Division, native advertising, New York Times, P.J. Bednarski, Shape, Shape Water Boosters, Sneak ADtack, sponsored content, Talented Goose, The Awl, Water works!
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Gawker Channels Dr. Ads!
Snarknado website Gawker featured this item yesterday: New York Times Doesn’t Know Who Bought Strange Pro-Bloomberg Ad Late last year, print readers of The New York Times discovered a full-page color ad, signed by a group called “Appreciative New Yorkers,” touting … Continue reading
NYT Hires Bloomberg Pariah Michael Forsythe. Quid Pro Quo, Yes?
So Bloomberg News reporter Michael Forsythe, who leaked a big story last fall to the New York Times about Bloomberg News spiking his report about corruption among China’s political leaders, gets fired by Bloomberg News and then hired by the Times. Pay … Continue reading
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Tagged Beijing, Bloomberg News, China, Margaret Sullivan, Michael Forsythe, New York Times, Public Editor, Shanghai
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Ask Dr. Ads: Who Really Wrote “You Don’t Have to Be Jewish to Love Levy’s”?
Well the Doc opened up the old mailbag today and here’s what poured out. Dear Dr. Ads, One of the legendary figures in the 1960s creative revolution on Madison Avenue – Judy Protas – died last week. According to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ask Dr. Ads, Banjo, Bill Bernbach, Bob Gage, Cracker Jack, DDB, Doyle Dane Bernbach, Gilbert and Sullivan, I found out about Joan, James B. Twitchell, Judy Protas, Keith Reinhard, Levy's, Margalit Fox, New York Times, Ohrbach's, Phyllis Robinson, Real Jewish Rye, Twenty Ads That Shook the World
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Prediction: Native Advertising Will Eat the Net
Well that didn’t take long, did it? Via MediaPost: Native Advertising Predicted To Dominate Digital In 2014 Say goodbye to the stigma associated with native advertising. Following The New York Times’ official embrace of the once-controversial ad format, J.P. Morgan is predicting … Continue reading
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