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I’d like to say that we Baby Boomers were savvy shoppers in our youth—that we never fell for fancy packaging or seductive advertisements. I’d like to say that, but I’d be lying. Why else would we have slapped down our hard-earned baby-sitting money on products like these in the eternal quest to look and smell our best? No comment yet.
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The debate about Mad Men’s ending may continue for years, but no one can debate the fact that Coca Cola has succeeded in getting the world to buy a Coke. With the final image of Don Draper meditati...
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Sally Edelstein
"A woman never forgets the man who remembers" "In 1939 Whitman’s launched Samplers most famous advertising campaign “A Woman Never Forgets The Man Who Remembers” the campaign remained popular for 2 decades"
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Sampling of Whitman’s Ads
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Do you ever remember a favorite ad campaign, but realize you've completely forgotten what the ad was actually trying to sell? It happens to the best of us. 
Ken Morrison's comment,
May 8, 2015 5:57 PM
Fun Fact: when I show the cat hurding video to my ESL students, some usually think it is about 'cat hurting'.
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Logos can say a lot about a brand, and just as companies and products change over time, so too do their icons. Even the most high-profile companies are constantly tweaking their visual branding, sometimes with a dramatic overhaul and sometimes in far more nuanced ways.
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There was a time when you could have subsisted on graham crackers, Moxie and Goo-Goo Clusters and called it a healthy diet.
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The expression ‘what’s in a name’ – or the slightly more poetic ‘a rose by any other name’ – means, essentially, that a name doesn’t matter. It suggests that it’s the attributes…
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The video above provides a 60-second, bird's-eye view of the evolution of the advertising industry, from ad agencies to brand-building to soap operas to bran... 
Karen Goldfarb Copywriter's curator insight,
January 20, 2015 1:15 PM
This is a pretty cleaned up version of where advertising came from (aka, no cleavage).
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2014 was a busy year for logo redesigns, but who actually improved on their old marks? PM Digital put together the infographic below showing 11 major logo revamps from 2014. For each one, PM says whether it loved the new design, liked it, or would have preferred the old one be left alone.
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The true meaning behind 35 top brand names, Creating a strong brand identity is an integral aspect of any consumer business, and a large part of any brand identity lies in its name. While many brands are simply named after their founders, others have more interesting origins. | Marketing Magazine
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Pez, Kodak, Toyota, Reddit, Virgin, Haagen-Das, Volvo, Nikon, Etsy, Subaru, Lufthansa, Verizon, Sony, Adidas, Pantene, Lego, Volkswagen, Durex, Starbucks, Jagermeister,, Reebok, Trojan, Nivea, Cadillac, Dasani, Samsung, Pandora, Hyundai, Nike, Fanta, Nintendo
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The first major Marmite advertising campaign began in the 1930s 1987- "My Mate, and |
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On Billy Davis, the black advertising legend who made the hit song that plays the series out
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very interesting!
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Satirical Vignettes-Sally Edelstein Collage artist/author coolly curates the Cold War Culture of Mad Men,Happy Housewives & other Space Age media stereotypes of 50s 60s,70s
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As the rumblings of the embryonic women's movement began to be heard in 1970, some women in the workplace began quietly grumbling too. Even as working women began taking baby steps in their Enna Je...
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In the late 19th century, Thomas Edison harnessed the power of the underworld and redirected it into the bodies of thousands of tiny "Talking Dolls."
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Between 1943 and 1945, with the help of Warner Bros.' finest, the U.S. Army produced a series of 27 propaganda cartoons depicting the calamitous adventures of Private Snafu. Mark David Kaufman explores the overarching theme of containment and how one film inadvertently let slip one of the war's greatest secrets.
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cartoon characters and propaganda
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From a time when ISPs actually had to sell people on the idea of using the Internet.
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The 1980s were a special decade. Disco was experiencing its death rattle; Ronald Reagan was the president for almost the entire span; cellphones were as big as bricks; and fashion, oh the fashion was just—tubular.
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Since the dawn of time, people have found nifty ways to clean up after the bathroom act. But the idea of a commercial product designed solely to wipe one's bum? That started about 150 years ago, right here in the U.S.A.
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From the 1950s toy that came with free uranium, to the Barbie doll that Mattel probably wants to forget about...
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UPDATE: The real update is there has yet to be an update. We -- and others -- haven't heard back from Mattel yet, despite increasing negative reviews of the book. SECOND UPDATE: Mattel has responde...
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interesting comments from reviewers on this one!
The more things change, the more they remain the same |
