Advertising & Branding
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After seven years working for Red Bull, and some two leading North American efforts on the brand’s much vaunted college marketing program, Mike Poznansky is striking out this week to…
Throughout history, women have grappled with a biological inevitability that is, literally, always top of mind: Sooner or later, they go gray. As the common wisdom goes, about 50 percent of…
Last year, some 100,000 women showed up at events with names like Utopian Tubes and PMS (that’s Pretty Muddy Stuff) where they scrambled up rope ladders, sloshed through mud pits…
Quick: picture a “mom.” Fifty years ago, advertisers and their agencies envisioned a domestic dervish spinning through her kitchen, preparing supper with one hand while waxing the floor with the…
This is the story of an accident and a fight. The accident created what is today a $5 billion industry—and that kind of money explains the fight. So we’ll take…
For ad agencies looking to seem a little more entrepreneurial, it’s almost too obvious—build a booze brand from scratch. But next month, Crispin Porter + Bogusky is unveiling its second. Papa’s…
Nike has a troubling knack for endorsing athletes prone to scandals, right? Not really. In fact, the brand’s troubles stem from its own success. “They just have the preponderance of athletes…
Airport clothing-store outlet United Arrows built a custom window display in its Tokyo location in which MarionetteBots (half mannequin, half robot) were wired with Kinect technology to mimic the movements…
Specs Who (l. to r.) Co-founders Scott Weiner, Matthew Burnett and Tanya Menendez What Business-to-business portal Where Dumbo, Brooklyn, N.Y. Like so many startups, Maker’s Row resulted from a big pivot. Unable to get…
This week—specifically, on Thursday—some 260,000 American men will participate in an odd but enduring male ritual. No, not beer pong. They will drop to one knee before their sweethearts and…
