Advertising Age – Digital

Volt Advertising Likely to Go After Nissan’s Leaf

July 30, 2010
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Volt Advertising Likely to Go After Nissan’s Leaf

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- You can plug in and charge the new Chevy Volt from General Motors Co. You can plug in and charge the new Leaf from Nissan Motor Co. But the similarities end there, and consumers can expect the advertising to play up the differen...
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Travelocity Launches Review for $80M Account

July 29, 2010
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Travelocity Launches Review for $80M Account

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Travelocity and its lead creative agency of seven years, McKinney, are parting ways due to a wide-ranging review the online travel site has launched on its more than $80 million advertising account.
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Is Your Detergent Stalking You?

July 29, 2010
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Is Your Detergent Stalking You?

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Unilever's Omo detergent is adding an unusual ingredient to its two-pound detergent box in Brazil: a GPS device that allows its promotions agency Bullet to track shoppers and follow them to their front doors.
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Old Spice’s ‘Your Man’ Meme Starts to Fade

July 29, 2010
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Old Spice’s ‘Your Man’ Meme Starts to Fade

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- No viral meme can last forever, right? As good as Old Spice's "Responses" campaign was, it's peaked and is now in a downward slide, losing 70% of its audience on the web last week.
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You Didn’t Expect Motorola Not to Make a Huge Deal of IPhone’s Antenna Problem, Did You?

July 28, 2010
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You Didn’t Expect Motorola Not to Make a Huge Deal of IPhone’s Antenna Problem, Did You?

Motorola took another whack at Apple's iPhone 4 Wednesday to boost its new Droid phone.
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Four Reasons Brands Must Check in to Foursquare. Now

July 28, 2010
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Four Reasons Brands Must Check in to Foursquare. Now

Forrester has found that location-based social platforms are too small for major marketers to concern themselves with. At least for now. The reasoning Forrester gives is that location-based start-ups are still too small for major marketers to take grea...
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Capital New York Plies Tough Market With Earnest Journalism

July 28, 2010
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Capital New York Plies Tough Market With Earnest Journalism

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Capital New York, the latest in the long tradition of New York media start-ups covering the city, sits fittingly on the second floor of a squat SoHo tenement. The door to the street entrance is lacquered in dark green paint and ...
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Brands on Sidelines as Disney, Google and MTV Charge Into Social Games

July 28, 2010
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Brands on Sidelines as Disney, Google and MTV Charge Into Social Games

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- There's a land grab in social gaming, but at this point, it doesn't look like there's much room for advertisers.
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Omnicom Launches Mobile Consultancy at OMD

July 27, 2010
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Omnicom Launches Mobile Consultancy at OMD

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Omnicom Group's OMD is launching a mobile-marketing consultancy called Airwave in a bid to help clients map out long-term mobile strategies.
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Study: Most Brands Still Irrelevant on Twitter

July 27, 2010
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Study: Most Brands Still Irrelevant on Twitter

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Attention brands: Twitter users aren't talking to you or about you. In fact, they barely know you exist.
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