The 10 Weirdest Ad Stories of the Month

On July 1, 2010

The 10 Weirdest Ad Stories of the Month

Loads of really bad attorney commercials! Bikini vodka ad uprising! Bring back cigarette advertising! It all happened in June 2010 ...
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On July 1, 2010

VC-backed IPOs Still Struggling

With the second quarter of 2010 officially behind us, let’s look at some oh-so-important IPO numbers.

The good news: the second quarter was the strongest in terms of venture-backed IPO volume since the fourth quarter of 2007. The bad news is…


On July 1, 2010

Open Skies Turns to Trains to Help Fill Airplanes

Once thought to be on the ropes, British Airways (BAIRY) subsidiary Open Skies seems to be riding the return of demand for business class travel. It's far from being out of the woods here, but it has a second life.


On July 1, 2010

The Problem With Paid Search

Ad visionary ducks out. He built the hippest ad agency in the country, and now Alex Bogusky is resigning from MDC Partners. If advertising had celebrities, Bogusky would easily qualify, having been a founding partner of Crispin Porter & Bogusky,…


On July 1, 2010

5 Steps for Dealing with Social Media Malice

Let’s say you’re involved in social media for your business and you’re the victim of a social-media attack. Somebody you don’t really know singles War Gamesyou out because he’s mad at your company, or had a bad day, or whatever; and…


On July 1, 2010

Small Business Paychecks Dip

The phrase "The only certain thing in life is that nothing is certain" comes courtesy of Pliny the Elder, an ancient Roman philosopher and military commander. And it seems fitting nearly 2,000 years later as a description of today's economy.

Over…