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  1. bad apologies
    Lowe’s Sorry People Noticed Its IslamophobiaIt pulled its ads from All-American Muslim after a conservative Christian organization lobbied the chain to do so.
    By Margaret Lyons
  2. advertising
    Watch a Video Illustrating the Literal Cost of Commercials1. Watch this video that illustrates how much it costs to air a commercial 2. Reassess EVERYTHING.
    By Eliot Glazer
  3. The Saga of Alec Baldwin and John Krasinski’s Baseball Rivalry Ends with […] Here is the sixth and final installment of New Era’s series of ads featuring Red Sox fan John Krasinski and Yankees fan Alec Baldwin […]
    By Adam Frucci
  4. Can Whitney Survive Its Ad Campaign? A DiscussionAdam: Can we talk about these Whitney ads? Will anyone who has seen them watch the show? Because they are truly awful. I feel like they’re […]
    By Adam Frucci and Halle Kiefer
  5. Everyone Still Wondering Why There Are No Women TV WritersA recent and super-depressing study showing that the percentage of female TV writers has halved over the last four years has prompted another […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  6. Doc Brown Is Now a Pitchman for an Argentine Electronics Retailer You might think that you saw the last of Doc Brown as he flew off in his time travelling locomotive with his new family at the end of Back to […]
    By Adam Frucci
  7. Errol Morris’s High Life Man and the Changing Idea of MasculinityErrol Morris’s hilarious new movie Tabloid premiered over the weekend to rave reviews. Morris is best known for documentaries like The Thin […]
    By AJ Aronstein
  8. Background Ads for Zookeeper Digitally Inserted Into Reruns of How I Met […]Listen up, pal! You’re gonna see Zookeeper this weekend whether you like it or not! Sick of the ads for it? Too bad! You can’t even escape them […]
    By Adam Frucci
  9. reality tv
    AMC Picks Up Mad Men–ish Reality ShowJust imagine all the opportunities for product placements.
    By Margaret Lyons
  10. The Hunt for Gilbert Gottfried’s Aflac Replacement Is On, and It’s […] Ever since Gilbert Gottfried was fired from his job as the voice of the Aflac duck, his most prestigious role since Problem Child 2, there’s […]
    By Adam Frucci
  11. Christopher Guest Directed Groupon’s Gross ‘Tibet’ AdSo you know those god-awful Groupon commercials that made light of the suffering in Tibet? That whole campaign was directed by…Christopher […]
    By Adam Frucci
  12. The Comedy Lessons of Terrible Super Bowl CommercialsUgh, Super Bowl commercials. These ads, which have become events worth paying attention to by virtue of their pricetags, pretty much provide a […]
    By Adam Frucci
  13. Every Commercial That Aired During the First Simpsons Episode The Simpsons have been around for a very long time, but it can be sometimes hard to place those early episodes in their time periods. Sure, […]
    By Adam Frucci
  14. What the Hell Is Up with Alec Baldwin’s Wegmans Commercials? Alec Baldwin is rich and famous and has absolutely no need to do crappy, low-budget local commercials. But his mom loves upstate NY […]
    By Adam Frucci
  15. advertising
    Robert Downey Jr. to Voice Modernized, Sexually Ambiguous Mr. PeanutHis loving male sidekick is just a friend, okay?
    By Kyle Buchanan
  16. show me the money
    Did Spike Lee Sell Out Bed-Stuy?A liquor ad he endorsed is papered all over the neighborhood from ‘Do the Right Thing.’
    By Willa Paskin
  17. Can Branded Content Be Funny?When Chuck did it, we laughed at them, not with them. When 30 Rock does it, or pretty much every other capital-G Good show on TV right now for […]
    By John Herrman
  18. josh duhamel
    Josh Duhamel Does Not Want to Use His Body to Sell MoviesIf you’ve got it, flaunt it?
    By Mike Vilensky
  19. Annoyingly Loud TV Commercials About to Become IllegalNot much seems to be getting done in congress these days, but at least they are getting one important thing done: “The Senate unanimously […]
    By Adam Frucci
  20. New Conan Promo Showcases the Sexiest Dance of AllHere’s the latest promo for Conan, a clip that doesn’t even feature Red himself. But it does feature a stripper doing the string dance, so it […]
    By Adam Frucci
  21. The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival Poster Is IncredibleThe Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival kicks off tonight in New York, and while the four-day-long event has a pretty amazing schedule of shows […]
    By Adam Frucci
  22. upfronts 2010
    What Ad Buyers Think About the Networks’ New ShowsThe people who really matter at the upfronts react.
    By Josef Adalian
  23. tv
    Genius in Advertising: New Zealand’s Obscenely Bulging Hung BillboardGood thinking, N.Z.
    By Edith Zimmerman
  24. movies
    Don’t Watch the Griswold Family’s Mini-Movie, Hotel Hell VacationFourteen laugh-free minutes.
    By Edith Zimmerman
  25. advertisingpocalypse
    Oscar’s Ten Best Picture Nominations Not Paying Off in AdvertisingAds are going for about what they did last year. And less than the year before, even.
    By Lane Brown
  26. breaking bad
    Breaking Bad Spoofs Obama Weatherproof BillboardInstead of the president, AMC’s billboard features Walter White, a fictional drug dealer.
    By Emma Rosenblum
  27. mad men
    Trend: Mad Men-Themed Holiday CardsAd agencies find holiday inspiration in Mad Men’s promo materials.
    By Lindsay Robertson
  28. jersey shore
    Domino’s Pizza No Longer Sponsoring Jersey ShorePizza chain is first sponsor to drop controversial new show.
  29. getting the brand back together
    The Hidden Genius of Mad Men Product PlacementSince the show is set in the sixties, don’t these companies risk seeming dated? We get schooled on the world of modern advertising.
    By Mike Vilensky
  30. lengthy hiatuses
    Exclusive: VH1 Shelves Best Week Ever, Possibly PermanentlyThe popular show’s future is in jeopardy.
    By Mark Graham
  31. right-click
    Whose Song Is Sexier?“Dear Vulture, I never thought this would happen to me … “
    By Nick Catucci
  32. lists
    And the Most Popular Film of 2011 Goes To…And you thought people loved ‘The Dark Knight’?
    By Mark Graham
  33. right-click
    The Killers Release One of the Year’s Best Singles — AgainIt’s fair to wonder whether Brandon Flowers is indeed from another planet.
    By Ehren Gresehover
  34. nice tries
    CBS Discovers Chat RoomsOn its Website, CBS is launching ‘social viewing rooms’ for viewers to discuss what they’re watching Online.
    By Amos Barshad
  35. overnights
    Good-bye, Entourage; — Hello, Californication!Having renounced ‘Entourage,’ we’re now free to recap a far-less-guilty pleasure: ‘Californication’!
    By Kristal Hawkins
  36. pop trash
    Is Kanye West’s New Viral Campaign Too Viral for Its Own Good?New ads on the New York subway are basically ads for Kanye West, not for the liquor he’s supposedly endorsing.
  37. trailer mix
    ‘Vicky Christina Barcelona’ Trailer: Woody Allen’s Publicist Strikes BackDespite what Woody Allen would have you believe, this movie might actually be hot.
  38. tube junkie
    Katrina Survivors Score a Sundance HitTwo days before Katrina hit, small-time hustler, sometime drug dealer, and non-stop motormouth Kim Roberts bought a used video camera for twenty bucks. Then she filmed as she and her husband helped 25 neighbors survive and escape the waters.
  39. the early word
    What’s Buzzing at Sundance: Hold On, We’ll Find SomethingYou can’t say Sundance is a bust — if these films were at Tribeca, everyone would be thrilled. But so far it’s definitely a dud.
  40. the take
    Ben Silverman, Friend to the EnvironmentNBC goes green in a completely unobtrusive manner.
  41. apropos of nothing
    Brazilians Fear Becoming Fat AmericansNope, not another round of Dove “Real Beauty” ads. And not an Adbusters spoof, either. Salles Chemistri (which also does ads for General Motors) produced these campy, hyperoffensive ads for the Brazilian yogurt company Itambé, to run with the tagline: “Forget about it. Men’s preference will never change. Fit Light Yogurt.” But we prefer this American version: “Brazilian ads: As progressive as Hollywood!” —Rachel Wolff
  42. cheek by jowl
    Beyoncé and Kelly Face Off in ‘Vibe’
  43. quote machine
    America, You’ve Let Bon Jovi Down