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Latest '1984' spoof casts Apple as the villain

Perhaps the most iconic ad of all time, Apple's "1984" has been repurposed a hundred times over. But this is the first time I've seen it turned against its creator.…

September 30, 2009, 3:34 PM EDT

Facebook's Mike Murphy on friending brands

By Brian Morrissey Facebook vp, global media sales Mike Murphy has a simple pitch to brands: Ads on Facebook have a "significantly higher" engagement rate than ads elsewhere on the Internet.…

September 24, 2009, 3:59 PM EDT

Nielsen, Facebook execs discuss their big plans

By Andrew McMains John Burbank, CEO of Nielsen's online division, and Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer at Facebook, outlined the broad strokes of the two companies' alliance during an Advertising Week…

September 22, 2009, 2:49 PM EDT

Dokken battles chicken for Norton anti-virus

Did the Family Guy manatees write this set of ads for Norton's 2010 anti-virus software? Because using '80s band Dokken and a chicken to illustrate how viruses attack your hard-drive…

September 10, 2009, 9:02 AM EDT

Microsoft ads not quite as diverse in Poland

Don't really want that black guy in the overseas version of your ad? Just Photoshop him out! Compare the English-language version of the company's business productivity infrastructure site with…

August 25, 2009, 6:14 PM EDT

HP crowdsources its headless ad campaign

Few social-media marketing ideas are as hackneyed as inviting people to upload their own commercials. But it seems like a good fit for Hewlett-Packard with the new "You on You"…

August 25, 2009, 12:06 PM EDT

Outrun the other rats with Toshiba's laptops

This Toshiba ad from Young & Rubicam in Irvine, Calif., shows what happens when you buy the wrong laptop: You end up sprinting in a panic through an empty city,…

July 31, 2009, 8:33 AM EDT

This year's desktop-computing blockbuster

I've been excited for this since the teaser came out, and hoping Jerry Seinfeld wasn't going to star in it. Now, Traffik and Microsoft have finally released the full trailer…

July 17, 2009, 9:40 AM EDT

Dell's laptop factory sure is a magical place

Mother in New York more or less goes the Coca-Cola "Happiness Factory" route for Dell in this musical spot. The Dell factory's a bit too wacky-forced-happy for my taste, with…

June 23, 2009, 8:22 AM EDT

A chilling hello from Opera's Unite software

Opera Software says it's reinventing the Web. That's pretty much what it'll take for the Norwegian company to boost its abysmal browser share (zing!). This week it unveiled Opera Unite,…

June 18, 2009, 8:30 AM EDT

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