Wednesday Odds and Ends

By Kiran Aditham 

-That irritating Staples ad wins Consumerist’s “Worst Ad in America” for 2010. link

-MLK appears in a Mercedes ad (above). link

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-Twitter says no to political advertisers. link

-Google’s trying to bring sexy back to online display ads. Good luck with that. link

-William Shatner help makes Priceline a tech darling. link

-MTV assembles Scratch, a group of creative types who will work with “brands seeking out fresh approaches.” link

-Time Warner chief Jeff Bewkes says the AOL merger was “the biggest mistake in corporate history.” link

-Julia Deakin joined Toronto-based prodco Crush as senior graphic designer/VFX artist. link

-Skinny ponders the “In-Executable Strategy.” link

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