Microsoft has taken the next step in pushing advertising on customers of its Windows 10 operating system, with users reporting an advertisement for Microsoft OneDrive now appearing in their File Explorer.
LONDON (AFP) – Britain will ban junk food ads aimed at children from both print and social media from next year, the advertising rules watchdog said Thursday, a move welcomed by campaigners against child obesity.
Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has recently dropped some money on advertising in the historically red Lone Star State and doing so has fueled speculation.
Politico reports that the Clinton campaign will spend $63,000 to reach Weather Channel viewers there for five days beginning on Thursday. The news was confirmed by the Clinton campaign.
The report, published by NBC News, finds the Clinton campaign had spent $96.4 million on TV advertising while Trump’s campaign only spent $17.3 million, The Hill reported. But the polls are showing a very tight race.
Germany will ban the usage of advert blocking software, to protect establishment media, as requested by senior politicians including Chancellor Angela Merkel. Golem, an IT news website, reported that the advertising agencies’ and media’s legal fight against advert blocking was
Gabby Giffords’s gun control group — Americans for Responsible Solutions — is spending seven figures to air an ad against pro-gun Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH).
Actor Gérard Depardieu, star of Green Card and Cyrano de Bergerac, is featured in a new wristwatch advertisement that shows him holding a hunting rifle while kneeling behind a dead deer.
Super Bowl 50 is just over a week away, and European-owned Anheuser-Busch has enlisted liberal Hollywood America-haters Seth Rogen and Amy Schumer to pitch the company’s Bud Light brand in a new ad.
Stand for Truth and Keep the Promise, super PACs affiliated with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, have booked more than $4 million in TV advertising for Iowa and South Carolina.
America Leads — a Super PAC supporting Gov. Chris Christie’s (R-NJ) presidential campaign — was trolling fellow GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina’s event in New Hampshire, attempting to get personal information from her supporters, according to a Breitbart source.
A Japanese sports drink company has invested heavily to send a can of its product to the moon in late 2016, in hopes of making a future ad with an astronaut drinking it.
If it weren’t for the excessive spending of late ’90s Silicon Valley startups, one of TV’s most iconic shows would likely have been axed by network executives. “Silicon Valley put the West Wing on television,” the show’s creator, Aaron Sorkin, tells The Ferenstein Wire.
Later this month, ESPN’s Jay Harris will be walking viewers through an interactive George Clooney trailer as part of a show about sports.
A new survey of all forms of radio reveals that online radio has surged in popularity, but satellite radio and AM/FM radio are still growing, though at a lower rate.
Bud Light has had to apologize for a “misfire” of an ad campaign that many complained excused date rape.
Henry Ford is credited as saying “I knew that only half my advertising worked, but the trouble is that I do not know which half.” Today, with 30 percent of advertising already going digital, Silicon Valley geeks commanding databases are terrorizing Madison Avenue’s Mad Men.
A writer for Buzzfeed resigned on Monday after a story she wrote criticizing a Buzzfeed advertiser was pulled and then later reposted by site Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith.
Last August WE tv’s president Marc Juris crowed, “Sex Box is one of the most unique and compelling show concepts we’ve ever seen, and we can’t wait to bring it to WE tv.” Juris may now be licking his wounds.
Apple teamed up with legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese for its latest iPad commercial, which will air during Sunday night’s broadcast of the 87th annual Academy Awards.
With the film adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey set for release on Valentine’s Day, condom manufacturer Trojan decided to take advantage of the buzz by releasing a new ad campaign.
