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Even Home Intruders Get the Girl in Campaign for Axe's New Hair Products Quite the first impression

'Tis the season for male-grooming brand extensions. Old Spice introduced its shaving gel last week. And now, Axe has updated its range of hair products for men. It's advertising them…

May 20, 2013, 12:55 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

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

Ad of the Day: Old Spice Terry Crews is back, and multiplying, in W+K's work for the brand's new shave gel

He's the man your man could shave like. Terry Crews, the most notable Old Spice guy these days—last seen in the amusing Muscle Music interactive campaign last fall—is back in a…

May 14, 2013, 1:25 PM EDT

Marketers Promise to Make You a Muscle Man Decades worth of supplement strength claims

For every industry whose marketing has undergone a revolution over the years, it’s always amusing to find the relative handful for whom time seems to have stood still. Case in…

May 9, 2013, 7:01 AM EDT

Huggies App Sends You a Tweet Whenever Your Kid Pees in His Diaper Parenting awards await

Today in useless marketing-driven product innovations, we have Huggies TweetPee, a little sensor dreamed up by Ogilvy Brazil that affixes to your baby's diaper, syncs with an app and tweets…

May 8, 2013, 1:15 PM EDT

Ad of the Day: Johnson & Johnson The company returns to its roots of love and family in an image campaign from TBWA\Chiat\Day

Johnson & Johnson's new corporate image work, from the Playa del Rey, Calif., office of TBWA\Chiat\Day, in some ways harkens back to its last major corporate push, the "Having a…

April 29, 2013, 12:10 PM EDT

P&G Profits Up But Revenue Falls Short Packaged goods brands cites 'choppy' global market

While Procter & Gamble's profits rose 6 percent in the third quarter due to cost-cutting and gained market share in North America, revenue fell short of analyst expectations, The Washington…

April 24, 2013, 4:44 PM EDT

'Baby Got Back' Is Back Again, This Time in a Charmin Commercial Brand enjoys the go, and big butts

In the annals of advertising, there are some songs we just keep coming back to. "Baby Got Back" is one of them. From hawking Burger King's SpongeBob meal to bustin'…

April 24, 2013, 2:26 PM EDT

Old Spice Rolls Out World's First Scratch-and-Sniff Banner Ad Click to smell the Internet

More goofiness from Old Spice and Wieden + Kennedy—a scratch-and-sniff banner ad, which of course they're calling the world's first. It's running over on The Onion's sports section. Clicking on…

April 22, 2013, 2:48 PM EDT

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