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Firehouse Combines Business Consulting With Advertising Work Dallas-based boutique promotes local farmers

Specs Who (l. to r.) Tripp Westbrook, partner, executive creative director; Steve Smith, partner, planning insights; Mark Hall, president, founder; Doug Miller, partner, finance and options What Advertising agency Where Dallas offices Farmers markets…

May 23, 2013, 6:54 AM EDT

How KitchenAid Gave Us the World’s Coolest Mixer The legacy of one of the most recognizable appliances

With The Great Gatsby in theaters and everyone suddenly falling in love with the glamor of the 1920s, now’s a fitting time to take a look at one of the…

May 23, 2013, 6:53 AM EDT

Kawasaki and 'Lone Ranger' Ride Together in Multifaceted Campaign Motorcycle brand also partners with Subway

If you've never throttled-up a dirt bike or a four-wheeler across an open terrain but have ridden a horse, well, they're similarly bumpy-but-fun experiences. So Kawasaki's new partnership with Disney's…

May 23, 2013, 6:00 AM EDT

Tablets Overtake Smartphones as the Big Shopping Device Mobile fuels retail

Mobile devices account for just 15 percent of e-commerce today, but eMarketer estimates that by 2017, one-fourth of online sales will be mobile-based as people conduct more of their lives…

May 22, 2013, 6:38 AM EDT

WPP Created One Big Digital Shop From 8 Smaller Ones This is Possible

WPP Group, like most rival holding companies, is perfectly willing to acquire a big digital player like AKQA. But with Possible, WPP’s roll up of smaller digital shops, the parent…

May 20, 2013, 10:27 PM EDT

Smosh Video for Sun Drop Soda Racks Up 2 Million Views YouTube duo promotes soda's 'surprisingly good' campaign

Sun Drop believes its soda tastes "surprisingly good." And to drive its marketing campaign home, the brand has tapped the hugely popular YouTube duo Smosh to make a video that…

May 20, 2013, 8:00 PM EDT

Shopper Marketing Is Going Mainstream Retail is the center of gravity

Shopper marketing may not be sexy, but it gets results. More evidence of this: Grey Group is setting up a new shopper marketing operation to work for client Procter &…

May 19, 2013, 10:30 PM EDT

Mattress Ads Wake Up to Human Sexuality Not so long ago, ads showing couples sharing a bed were taboo

The fact is largely forgotten, but first lady Eleanor Roosevelt used to host a weekly radio show sponsored by the Simmons mattress company—a cultural footnote immortalized by Cole Porter in…

May 16, 2013, 6:42 AM EDT

Partners & Spade Helps Brands While Creating Its Own Creative studio for fashion and film

Specs Who Co-founders and co-creative directors Anthony Sperduti (l.) and Andy Spade What Creative studio Where New York offices When Andy Spade teamed up with Anthony Sperduti, a former colleague at Kirshenbaum Bond &…

May 16, 2013, 6:41 AM EDT

Nearly Half of Second-Gen Hispanics Feel Like Ads Don't Target Them Ethnicity influences brand decisions

By now, it’s obvious that targeting Hispanics in the U.S. means more than just translating an ad into Spanish and casting ethnic stereotypes as spokespeople. For one thing, the first…

May 15, 2013, 6:22 AM EDT

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