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  • Voice Choices

    May 9, 2012

    PARIS BLUES

    Rosecrans Baldwin tells of his 
not-so-charming expat life

  • Voice Choices

    May 2, 2012

    Draper's Friends

    What to do when Mad Men isn't on

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2012

    The Fat Wars, Animal vs. Vegetable

    There's a story behind vegetable oil taking over the American pantry and it has nothing to with health or flavor. In the early 1900s, Procter & Gamble found a way to market excess cottonseed oil and it forever changed the way we shop, cook and think about food.

  • Voice Choices

    April 4, 2012

    The Ting Tings

    There's a story behind vegetable oil taking over the American pantry and it has nothing to with health or flavor. In the early 1900s, Procter & Gamble found a way to market excess cottonseed oil and it forever changed the way we shop, cook and think about food.

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    'Escort Quality, Hooker Pricing' Billboard Is Not OK, Says Scott Stringer

    If an offensive advertisement fails, and you apologize for the offensiveness of the ad, what's the next logical step for the ad company? For Wodka Vodka, the answer apparently is to try and offend someone else. IN VERY LARGE LETTERS. The thinking behind the madness: If making fun of Jews doesn't w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    UFO Video Proves Existence of YouTube

    The above video of a supposed "UFO Mothership" over London was posted onto YouTube Monday and has already garnered over two million hits. It briefly captures a group of glowing lights passing by overhead and is similar to another popular UFO video shared months ago from Jerusalem. Whether you belie ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 15, 2011

    BLACK-TIE OPTIONAL

    Bands, beer pong, and a dance-off await

  • Voice Choices

    March 23, 2011

    Wu Lyf

    Bands, beer pong, and a dance-off await

  • Voice Choices

    March 23, 2011

    Angela Di Carlo: Just to Be Polite

    Bands, beer pong, and a dance-off await

  • Voice Choices

    March 9, 2011

    SAINT JOANIE

    A tribute to Miss Holloway—er, Hathaway

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    What Would Times Square Look Like With No Ads?

    ​From the man who brought you Super Size Me and reality stunt show 30 Days comes No Ad: New York, "an internet-based effort to remove all visual advertising from Times Square." Morgan Spurlock's Warrior Poets have teamed with online photo editing program Aviary and some neo-ad agency called Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2010

    Sawyer Frye 'Contest Video': McDonald's McRib Ushered Out With a Very Lame Bit of Marketing

    The McRib has once again been pulled from the market as part of McDonald's corporate marketing campaign, and the focus of the current hubbub is a supposedly amateur video made by one Sawyer Frye of Carthage, North Carolina, said to be the winner of a $10,000 contest sponsored by McDonald's.

  • Voice Choices

    December 22, 2010

    BLANK SURROUNDINGS

    The new hot dance party gets local help

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2010

    Groupon Brushes Off Google's $6 Billion Offer

    ​Six billion dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? Groupon, the Chicago-based mega-start-up of online group coupons (get it?), turning down a six billion dollar offer from SkyNet Google. The tech giant has more money than God and often uses it to snap up smaller companies. But often, they ... More >>

  • Music

    October 20, 2010

    The Downward Spiral of TVT Records

    How the ambitious NYC indie nearly brought artists from Ambulance LTD to Lil Jon down with it

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2010

    So Bob Dylan Is Coming to Terminal 5 In November

    ​And so history's most evil Santa impersonator will come to the Bowery Presents' biggest venue next month, a win for the massive local concert promotion conglomerate, and a draw for the fans who will surely sell these shows out in a matter of minutes. At three nights (November 22nd-24th, or th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    The Ten Very Worst 9/11-Themed Ads

    Click to Enlarge.Via CopyRanter.​Yesterday, Copyranter caught an advertisement (pictured right) for French weekly Courrier International. The conceit of the advertisement, by Saatchi & Saatchi France, as put by Copyranter: "The World Trade Center architects should have stopped at about 50 floo ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 8, 2010

    A NEW CHAPTER

    Joshua Ferris reads from his second book

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2010

    Today in Non-Shockers: That Berlin Cannibal Restaurant Is, Indeed, a Hoax

    Remember the cannibal restaurant that we told you about, the one that was angering Berliners with requests for body parts, but was probably a hoax? It's a hoax! Apparently, the whole marketing campaign was a tone-deaf hoax perpetrated by vegetarian activists trying to draw a moral parallel between ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    Six Ways Live Nation Could Become More Fan Friendly

    ​On Saturday, the Times ran an overview of the woes facing this summer's tours, which have seen sales overall suffer despite sellouts for the likes of Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber. Even the Eagles--once an act that could be guaranteed to print money from boomers--have suffered during the dog da ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    Bedbugs Take Over Hachette Book Group's Offices

    ​Coming to you with the latest in bedbug news: Hachette Book Group's three floors at 237 Park Avenue and East 46th Street are infested and undergoing "aggressive treatment" for the bugs on Thursday and Friday while, we presume, the lucky/unlucky Hachette employees "work from home" or "go to th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2010

    David Perez Is Currently Doing Anything You Tweet

    David Perez, Now on Demand​David Perez, who we told you about last week, wanted to go to the Advertising Festival in Cannes, and his employer, ad firm Leo Burnett, agreed to send him under one condition: He must do whatever people on Twitter tell him to do for a five days.

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    Ad Man Will Act Upon Every Twitter Command for 5 Days, Like an Internet-Controlled Marionette

    ​Starting on June 21, David Perez will do anything asked of him on Twitter @davidondemand while wearing a webcam on his glasses so that the entire Internet-universe can view his antics. While Perez (not that one) will be a pawn of Twitter users for 5 days, the experiment started with him actin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    Why Chuck Schumer Saved the Jelly Pool Parties

    The crowd at the last Pool Party of the summer, 2009. Photo by Sam Horine​So why did one of the most powerful senators in the United States intervene to save a free concert series in Brooklyn? Writes Ben Sisario in the New York Times:

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2010

    Irving Plaza Is Officially Irving Plaza Again

    The old marquee, before the new marquee, which is now the old marquee again. Pic via Joe Madonna's photostream​Goodbye, "Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza"--your many syllables and unwieldy national branding associations will not be missed. The Times reports today that Live Nation is backing a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2010

    KFC's New Slogan: People Really Do Get Paid to Come Up With This Shit

    Try wrapping your lips around KFC's latest.​The last slogan KFC spit up upon the unsuspecting public was "Unthink." It seems that a battalion of geniuses working at several top ad agencies followed that mantra in order to disgorge the company's latest slogan.

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    Media Mogul James Dolan Elects to Use 'Nuclear Option' on Village Voice, Yet Again Pulling More Advertising Than Ever!

    ​Back in March, a blog post we published regarding a potential media acquisition by Cablevision, MSG Entertainment, and Rainbow Media owner James Dolan -- compounded by a vaguely worded, ominous legal threat from Dolan's corporate office, which was ignored and then published in a naive showing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2010

    Prepare to Be Extorted: Ticketmaster-Live Nation Merger Gets Department of Justice Approval

    ​Hard to see how this could have an upside for concertgoers. Today, the U.S. Department of Justice reportedly signed off on a long in the works merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation, clearing aside the biggest obstacle to a proposed Live Nation Ticketmaster entertainment conglomerate. Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2010

    Teaching Hamburgers to Lie: How TV Food Is Photostyled

    This incredible video details how hamburgers are prepped by stylist Jennifer Eustock for TV commercials. The process involves gluing sesame seeds, branding the patty, and propping up the lettuce with straight pins. After you see this, you'll know why your Big Mac and Whopper can't measure up to thei ... More >>

  • Film

    August 18, 2009

    Art & Copy, Doug Pray's Tribute to Ads

    This incredible video details how hamburgers are prepped by stylist Jennifer Eustock for TV commercials. The process involves gluing sesame seeds, branding the patty, and propping up the lettuce with straight pins. After you see this, you'll know why your Big Mac and Whopper can't measure up to thei ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    Losing Money, the 'Times' Hits the Bottle

    The New York Times Company announced yesterday that it's starting a wine club. An un-bylined article in the Times' business section today reports that the new business, called (suprise) the New York Times Wine Club, is one of several ventures the company has been exploring as its advertising sales h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2009

    Streaking Past Viacom Offices in Times Square Now Legitimate Path to MTV Video Music Award Nominations

    Hey, so the downy elf with the dilated pupils who dwells inside the padded confines of MTV's viral marketing campaign closet did good today! The MTV Video Music Award Nominations are out, and boy, look at that Breakthrough Video category: the ninja-filled, Underworld-vibing video to Bat For Lash's ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 3, 2009

    WILL FILM FOR FOOD

    Opening gala kicks off a week of yummy films

  • News

    August 12, 2008

    New York City's Struggle to Take Down Illegal Billboards

    City government and citizen vigilantes wage a losing battle against Clear Channel and illegal ads

  • Voice Choices

    August 12, 2008

    FATHER’S DAY

    Backyard shenanigans with a Michigan dad

  • Film

    June 5, 2007

    Reality Czech in Aisle Nine

    Doc dupes entire nation, makes trenchant case against consumer culture

  • Screens

    March 14, 2006

    eBay Atheist

    Emerging markets: Souls, for sale and/or saving

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2005

    Not Bathroom Humor: Richest Deal Ever

    Emerging markets: Souls, for sale and/or saving

  • Screens

    June 21, 2005

    Blue Chipping

    In 23 million years, Google will fall to the rebellion. And no, we don't mean 'Ask Jeeves'

  • Screens

    June 14, 2005

    Get Eaten

    In 23 million years, Google will fall to the rebellion. And no, we don't mean 'Ask Jeeves'

  • Music

    July 6, 2004

    Live Dead

    Concert biz endures summer; Clear Channel screws bands

  • Art

    January 13, 2004

    Female Protégées Suck Up to Donald Trump While Guys Just Suck

    Concert biz endures summer; Clear Channel screws bands

  • Music

    April 15, 2003

    Music

    Concert biz endures summer; Clear Channel screws bands

  • News

    April 1, 2003

    Bush's Voice of America

    Pro-War Media Conglomerate Tries to Take Over New York

  • Music

    June 4, 2002

    Music

    Pro-War Media Conglomerate Tries to Take Over New York

  • News

    March 7, 2000

    Click Back

    Privacy Hounds Bring DoubleClick to Heel—for Now

  • News

    November 16, 1999

    Nation

    Privacy Hounds Bring DoubleClick to Heel—for Now

  • News

    December 15, 1998

    Spy Commerce

    The Surveillance Society: Part Three

  • News

    April 28, 1998

    Criminal Information

    The Surveillance Society: Part Three

  • News

    November 11, 1997

    Upstart Start-Ups

    The Surveillance Society: Part Three

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