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Study: Industry’s Found Sneaky Way to Keep Advertising Junk Food to Kids

Brand Marketing

Food and beverage advertisers may have found a handy way to dodge their own guidelines restricting the marketing of junk food to children, according to a new study from the [...]


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What’s the best fake brand from film or TV?

Creativity

If there's one thing I love about product placement, it's the lengths to which TV shows and movies go when they don't want to pay up for an actual brand. [...]

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U.K. wrings hands over product placement

Creativity

Those nervous nellies in the U.K. have blocked a move to allow product placement on TV. Proponents of the ban have dragged out all the tired clichés about distinguishing editorial [...]

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Posters promote films’ product placements

Creativity

The A2591 blog has posted a handful of movie posters redesigned to mostly just show the films’ product-placement sponsors. They’re stylish and no-frills and will make you feel smart and [...]

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It’s gotta be the shoes

Creativity

Watching Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou as an AdFreak family activity on Christmas Day, we were struck by the Zissou brand of clothes that were everywhere. Characters [...]