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Alex Bogusky

The mind behind the ads

Alex Bogusky's next big advertising challenge is a multimedia sell job of Microsoft


The bike that launched a rolling feud

When stroller-maker Dorel Industries bought a high-end bicycle maker, the Montreal company was simply thinking diversification. Then the mud-slinging, poaching and intimidation began. Welcome to the clubby world of elite cycling


Marketing to the muddled masses

Cultural anthropoligist Grant McCracken in conversation with Jennifer Wells


Vacuum cleaner king's got a brand new bag

Dyson is betting he can tackle the hand-dryer market with a $1,600 device


Marketing

Your new campaign? It's up in the air

Ad firm calls them ‘flogos' - clouds in the shape of corporate logos


Unilever scrambles to retouch Dove's image

Says allegations that photos in the 'Real Beauty' campaign were altered is untrue

Commentary

I couldn't have been at the network parties

Richard Siklos

Because they didn't happen. Really


Strategy

We have only ourselves to blame

Daniel Muzyka

Saving consumers from, ahem, themselves


Commentary

Ad campaign leaves a bad aftertaste

Konrad Yakabuski

Suggestive posters for high-fat Pogos aimed at adolescent boys


Jennifer Wells

Selling Cosmo TV in Canada

Is too much sex possible?

Apparently not if you're trying to sell Cosmo TV to Canada's "fun, fearless" single gals


Podcast

OgilvyOne's Brian Featherstonhaugh

Talking Management - The future of marketing Popup

OgilvyOne's Brian Fetherstonhaugh tells Karl Moore what it now takes to reach customers

 

Marketers 

Marketing: In the new economy, 'free becomes inevitable'

Free is what you're going to get, says Chris Anderson in conversation with Jennifer Wells

Meet the scuppie: hippie, yuppie, rich and righteous

Branding the socially conscious well-to-do

Coldplay joins ESPN to market UEFA championship

In return, the sports network will be promoting the group's latest album

Sears eyes reviving the Eaton's catalogue

New life for a vanished Canadian retail brand?

Marketing: Hollywood challenged to repeat last year's haul

Hollywood is counting on the Incredible Hulk and some other super heroes to match last year's record box-office

Gaming: Grand Theft Auto 4 steals limelight


Agencies 

Marketing: Mentos campaign grabs top honours

Campaign named Best in Show at Marketing magazine awards

IPG reports narrower quarterly loss

World's third-biggest ad services company helped by higher spending by clients

Higher costs drive down IAC profit

In line with estimates, but revenues jump, exceeding forecasts

Bell loss a blow to Cossette

Telco severs exclusive advertising agreement; 'a worst-case scenario'


Media 

Time Warner to spin off rest of cable unit

Profit declined to $771-million

CSI syndication deal strengthens CBS results

Broadcaster made $244.3-million (U.S.) in the first three months of the year, up from $213.5-million

UK Internet soon to pass TV in ad spending

More ad money will be spent online than on television by end of 2009 in Britain, report says

Meet John Bitove

The sports, fast food and radio businesses did—and were never the same afterward. Which can mean only one thing for the incumbents in national TV: time to shut out Mr. Charming


Branding/Sponsorship 

Innovation: Peter Munk: The lessons from the Clairtone story

It was cutting-edge sixties design, it was Canadian, and after an initial burst, it flared out. Forty years on, it's still happening in a country where creative minds can compete with the best, but financial success is a different matter

Molson scores Olympics suds contract

Deal to be the official beer provider for the Vancouver Olympics in 2010 will allow Molson to use Olympic trademarks in promotional materials, the company said Tuesday

Flashy finish: Boston Marathon to allow sponsors' ads

Breaking with 112 years of tradition, organizers of the Boston Marathon have agreed to let corporate sponsors place ads at the start and finish lines

Olympic sponsors face fresh hurdle

Darfur activists use the games as political leverage

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