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When a Reviewer Loves the Promo More Than the Show

Advertising Age  Feb 04 10

With all due respect to "Deal or No Deal" and Larry King, "Extra" is the single most weightless program on television today. By comparison, it makes lite-entertainment doppelganger "Access Hollywood" look like "Frontline Presents: Solzhenitsyn Unbound."

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New York Times' Exclusive Run at Starbucks Ends

Advertising Age  2 days ago

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- After nearly 10 years as the only national newspaper for sale in many Starbucks around the country, The New York Times is facing new coffeehouse competition today as USA Today returns to 6,500 Starbucks stores.

Elle Teams Up With a California Magazine in Hunt for New Ads

Advertising Age  5 days ago

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- In the latest bid to make local marketing pay for a national media property, Elle has a new deal with C magazine, the luxury title focused on California, to get advertisers to spend more with special incentives and new custom programs.

Which 2009 Magazine Ads Were Tops With Young Men and Young Women?

Advertising Age  Mar 10 10

MRI Starch Communications looked at which 2009 consumer print ads caught the attention of young men and women.

Dora the Explorer Finds Herself in High Demand

Advertising Age  Mar 10 10

LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) -- Dora the Explorer, Nickelodeon's cartoon preschool heroine, is turning 10 -- or should we say, diez? -- and has a host of marketing partners to help her celebrate, from State Farm to the U.

ABC: 41 Million Tune in to Oscars Broadcast

Advertising Age  Mar 08 10

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Looks as if the big Oscars gambit paid off: ABC today said last night's broadcast of the 82nd annual Academy Awards, replete with an expanded 10-nominee slate for Best Picture, notched the event's highest audience since 2005.

Why 'Modern Family' Still Drives Toyota

Advertising Age  Mar 08 10

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- The image seemed jarring: On a February broadcast of ABC's "Modern Family," members of the cast chatted happily while traveling in, of all things, a Toyota.

GM Lets Go of Three Cadillac Execs

Advertising Age  Mar 04 10

DETROIT (AdAge.com) -- General Motors Co. terminated three U.S. marketing executives as part of this week's management overhaul, Automotive News reports today.

Dobrow's Happily Adrift in a Sea of Post-Show Discourse

Advertising Age  Mar 04 10

Since that first night in September 2004 when "Lost" began, I've expended an inordinate amount of mental energy pondering the show's dramatic red herrings and riddle-encrusted enigmas.

FDA Demands Changes to Food and Beverage Product Labels

Advertising Age  Mar 03 10

In the latest of searing indictments on the package-food industry, the FDA has issued letters to 17 companies, including Nestle, Diamond Foods and POM, demanding changes to product labels.

Why Binge Drinking PSAs May Leave Some Reaching for Another Drink

Advertising Age  Mar 03 10

CHICAGO (AdAge.com) -- Public-service ads intended to reduce binge drinking may actually lead to more of it, according to a study out of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management that's set for publication in the Journal of Marketing Research later this year.