"In a challenge to television … Google and its YouTube video site, Yahoo, AOL, online video venture Hulu and Microsoft, will each take a day to present advertisers with marketing opportunities and future video programming," reports The Hollywood Reporter, citing a story…
Nabisco’s Oreo is the No. 1 cookie in America. But as the company found out, you can’t just import it into China and expect it to be No. 1 there as well. In this insightful piece from the smart folks…
Kevin T. Willson, an aspiring documentary filmmaker focused on humanitarian causes, won $1 million and a chance to direct another ad as the winner of Doritos’ annual Crash the Super Bowl ad contest, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker…
Sunday’s record-breaking Super Bowl broadcast featured a great game, terrific ads and a wide range of technological innovations, but what it may be best remembered for was a low-tech gesture during the halftime show. TVWeek Open Mic blogger Hillary Atkin…
Daytime host Ellen DeGeneres used her talk show Tuesday to respond to a protest of her endorsement deal with JC Penney, The Washington Post reported. DeGeneres fired back at the group One Million Moms, which is trying to pressure JC…
Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger noted in an earnings call with analysts that ABC has sold out of its commercial time for the Academy Awards broadcast, reports Deadline.com. Iger called the ad market “healthy,” the story reports. Iger also noted…
CNN is being pressured by an activist group that is calling for the firing of an analyst in the wake of a controversial tweet, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has…
In an incident that is being compared to the infamous “wardrobe malfunction” by Janet Jackson at the 2004 Super Bowl, NBC and the NFL have apologized for a performance by a singer during Sunday’s halftime show for Super Bowl XLVI,…
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Comedian Will Ferrell starred in a Super Bowl ad that most viewers never saw, because it only aired in Nebraska, according to New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. The spot is the latest of what the article calls "beautifully bizarre" ads…