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Walmart CMO Reflects on the Chaos of 2006
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- In the 47-year timeline of Wal-Mart's history, few years can match 2006 for marketing chaos. In January of that year, Julie Roehm, an edgy Chrysler marketing executive, became Wal-Mart's SVP of marketing communications only to be dismissed twelve months ...later. W...
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See MoreNEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- In the 47-year timeline of Wal-Mart's history, few years can match 2006 for marketing chaos. In January of that year, Julie Roehm, an edgy Chrysler marketing executive, became Wal-Mart's SVP of marketing communications only to be dismissed twelve months ...later. W...
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MPG Keeps Reckitt Benckiser's Media Buying In U.S.
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Reckitt Benckiser has consolidated its $1.3 billion global traditional and digital media planning and buying account for its 17 Powerbrands, which include products such as Lysol, Woolite and Calgon, with Havas' and Publicis' media groups, the m...arketer said in a...
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See MoreNEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Reckitt Benckiser has consolidated its $1.3 billion global traditional and digital media planning and buying account for its 17 Powerbrands, which include products such as Lysol, Woolite and Calgon, with Havas' and Publicis' media groups, the m...arketer said in a...
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Wal-Mart CMO Defends Private-Label Brand Expansion
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Putting a humanitarian spin on his remarks to an ANA audience, Wal-Mart CMO Stephen Quinn defended his company's massive expansion of is private-label brands. Earlier this year, the retail giant sparked a controversy in the food marketing indust...ry when it unveiled a ...
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See MoreNEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Putting a humanitarian spin on his remarks to an ANA audience, Wal-Mart CMO Stephen Quinn defended his company's massive expansion of is private-label brands. Earlier this year, the retail giant sparked a controversy in the food marketing indust...ry when it unveiled a ...
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Oprah: Queen of Daytime Proves Content Is King
MINNEAPOLIS (AdAge.com) -- Network TV has mostly missed out on the Oprah effect, as it didn't develop Oprah Winfrey, or any other talker who has dominated daytime in recent years. This was a great historical miss by broadcasters, who to this day are struggling in daytime w...ith soap operas th...
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See MoreMINNEAPOLIS (AdAge.com) -- Network TV has mostly missed out on the Oprah effect, as it didn't develop Oprah Winfrey, or any other talker who has dominated daytime in recent years. This was a great historical miss by broadcasters, who to this day are struggling in daytime w...ith soap operas th...
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Marketers as Media Companies: A Disruptive Trend Revisited
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- A growing number of big marketers have circumvented the middleman and launched their own mainstream media and entertainment properties. The revolutionary development has moved them into direct competition for audiences with traditional m...edia companies. But are these proje...
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See MoreNEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- A growing number of big marketers have circumvented the middleman and launched their own mainstream media and entertainment properties. The revolutionary development has moved them into direct competition for audiences with traditional m...edia companies. But are these proje...
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Procurement Is Subject of Contention at AAF Awards
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Procurement took a bit of a beating at the American Advertising Federation's annual Hall of Achievement awards today, a sign that some marketers and agencies have reached the breaking point when it comes to the penny-pinching that they feel is st...arting to strangle cre...
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See MoreNEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Procurement took a bit of a beating at the American Advertising Federation's annual Hall of Achievement awards today, a sign that some marketers and agencies have reached the breaking point when it comes to the penny-pinching that they feel is st...arting to strangle cre...
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Why News Corp. and Murdoch Won't Quit Google
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Pulling media sites out of Google search results is a bold idea, but there are many reasons to think it's not the future of the web. And if it's not the future of media companies as a whole, it's probably not even the future of News Corp.
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See MoreNEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Pulling media sites out of Google search results is a bold idea, but there are many reasons to think it's not the future of the web. And if it's not the future of media companies as a whole, it's probably not even the future of News Corp.
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Printing Green and Loving It!
The buzz-word in printing these days is “green.” Companies are establishing sustainable business management practices and expecting their employees to follow along. Just as clients are “going green,” so is the printing industry to keep up with this new global demand. Paper, ink and techno......
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See MoreThe buzz-word in printing these days is “green.” Companies are establishing sustainable business management practices and expecting their employees to follow along. Just as clients are “going green,” so is the printing industry to keep up with this new global demand. Paper, ink and techno......
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Has Procurement Gone Too Far?
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- No other subject has become as much of a hot button in the ad industry as procurement. Marketers' ROI mania and growing use of procurement officers to purchase marketing services has pushed down agencies' operating margins. But has it gone too far? Speaking at t...
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See MoreNEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- No other subject has become as much of a hot button in the ad industry as procurement. Marketers' ROI mania and growing use of procurement officers to purchase marketing services has pushed down agencies' operating margins. But has it gone too far? Speaking at t...
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U.K. Advertising Regulators to Police Websites With the Help of... Google
LONDON (AdAge.com)--In an unusual move and possibly controversial move for the search giant, Google has teamed up with the Advertising Standards Authority to police marketers' activities on websites in the UK.
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LONDON (AdAge.com)--In an unusual move and possibly controversial move for the search giant, Google has teamed up with the Advertising Standards Authority to police marketers' activities on websites in the UK.
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Eddie Murphy's Long-Term Effect on Ad Agency Diversity
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- How is Eddie Murphy playing a role in a new push to diversify ad agencies? Former agency account exec Lincoln Stephens is both an example and an evangelist of the "Boomerang" effect. A year ago Stephens abruptly quit his Chicago agency job,... moved back to his ho...
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See MoreNEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- How is Eddie Murphy playing a role in a new push to diversify ad agencies? Former agency account exec Lincoln Stephens is both an example and an evangelist of the "Boomerang" effect. A year ago Stephens abruptly quit his Chicago agency job,... moved back to his ho...
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Caribou Coffee Takes Aim at Starbucks With First TV Ad
CHICAGO (AdAge.com) -- Caribou Coffee will launch its first-ever TV campaign tomorrow with an approach that pokes fun at its biggest rival, Starbucks.
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CHICAGO (AdAge.com) -- Caribou Coffee will launch its first-ever TV campaign tomorrow with an approach that pokes fun at its biggest rival, Starbucks.
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Report From the China International Ad Festival
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- When Rob Belgiovane set out from his Australian agency for the China Ad Festival in Nanning, he expected to fly into a small town near the Vietnamese border. Instead, he found himself in a city the size of New York that remains largely unknown to W...esterners. And the spraw...
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See MoreNEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- When Rob Belgiovane set out from his Australian agency for the China Ad Festival in Nanning, he expected to fly into a small town near the Vietnamese border. Instead, he found himself in a city the size of New York that remains largely unknown to W...esterners. And the spraw...
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New Insurance Policies Help Agencies Control Ad-Production Costs
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Dianne Richter, an ad agency veteran who's clocked time in the broadcast departments of shops such as JWT, Y&R and Saatchi & Saatchi, found herself on a nightmare of a commercial shoot a few years ago. While driving to location, pol...ice had blocked the producti...
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See MoreNEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Dianne Richter, an ad agency veteran who's clocked time in the broadcast departments of shops such as JWT, Y&R and Saatchi & Saatchi, found herself on a nightmare of a commercial shoot a few years ago. While driving to location, pol...ice had blocked the producti...
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Ethnic Insights Form Foundations of McDonald's Marketing
PHOENIX (AdAge.com) -- The marketing at McDonald's is informed first and foremost by ethnic insights that shape the chain's marketing to African Americans, Asians and Hispanics. Then McDonald's lays those insights over work for the general market.
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See MorePHOENIX (AdAge.com) -- The marketing at McDonald's is informed first and foremost by ethnic insights that shape the chain's marketing to African Americans, Asians and Hispanics. Then McDonald's lays those insights over work for the general market.
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