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Having Shipped Its Pants, Kmart Now Offers You 'Big Gas Savings' More almost-profanity from Draftfcb

Kmart's "Ship My Pants" ad was a major success, to the tune of 17 million YouTube views and counting. But can Draftfcb turn almost-profanity into a running gag for the…

May 23, 2013, 9:48 AM EDT

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

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

Advertising Student Ships His Pants to Kmart's Agency, Lands Internship Alf Zapata shows Draftfcb the goods

If you can ship your pants skillfully and creatively, you have a good chance of working at Kmart's ad agency, Draftfcb. The agency said today that it has brought in…

May 20, 2013, 3:28 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

Here's the Real (and Real Silly) Dunder Mifflin Ad Airing Tonight on the Series Finale of The Office Limitless paper in an Office-less world

Looking forward to the series finale of The Office tonight? Here's something else to look forward to. The real Dunder Mifflin ad below—for the defictionalized paper brand whose products you…

May 16, 2013, 4:05 PM EDT

JP Morgan Chase's Claire Huang Talks Digital and Mobile Financial exec dishes on 'brand refresh' strategy

JP Morgan Chase named Claire Huang its first-ever CMO last August, poaching the marketing veteran from an executive position with competitor Bank of America. Huang has since attempted to reinvigorate…

May 16, 2013, 3:17 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

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