Toronto agency zulu alpha kilo (on behalf of NEDIC, the National Eating Disorder Information Centre) to send out minus-8-sized t-shirts to fashion editors and other influencers to bring attention to the unrealistic depiction of women in advertising and fashion spreads, and asks those in the industry to 'cast responsibly and retouch minimally.'
Created

Size matters

A national eating disorder group asks the fashion industry to get real

Social Networking Sites May Be Monitored By Security Services
Noted

Some friends can't be trusted

Are social networks causing us to mistrust our peers?

BMW Scent insert
Quoted

BMW's new scent

BMW uses that new-car smell to draw in buyers

Toyota Commitment TV commercial
30-second spots

Damage control at Toyota

In its attempt to make things right, the auto maker has done a few things wrong

Men Without Pants (Dockers)

Adhocracy

Blowing the whistle on men's marketing

Super Bowl kicks off a discussion about male stereotypes in advertising

Shaw to buy control of CanWest

Would own at least 20% of CanWest's equity and 80% of its voting stock after the deal

Aspers resign from CanWest

CEO Leonard Asper is last sibling with major role at company founded by his father

David Dunne

The Toyota brand will ride this out

Are out-of-control Toyotas hurtling down our highways? Not so fast

Media

Magazine sales hit hard at newsstands

Newsstand sales fell 9.1 per cent in the U.S. and 4.34 per cent in Canada in the last half of 2009, compared to the same period a year before

Disney, Google eye stake in Chinese firm

Google, which threatened to quit China last month, among investors of Disney-led consortium in talks to buy into bus media firm

CRTC approves licence for FreeHD

A satellite TV upstart has won limited approval to do business in Canada.

Olympic rules silence athletes' ads

Hockey star Sidney Crosby has become the public face of Tim Hortons Inc. , appearing on television daily in the coffee chain's ads to make patriotic comments about Canada's deep connection with hockey.

Grow: Mia Wedgbury
Step carefully into social media campaigns

Key is to be transparent, and remember that social media are not the same as advertising

Adhocracy
Super Bowl advertisers change up the game

Companies drop the veil of secrecy in favour of reaching a pre-game audience online

In an image from video provided by CBS, David Letterman, Oprah Winfrey and Jay Leno, from right, record a promo for CBS' 'Late Show' that aired during the broadcast of the NFL football Super Bowl on Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. The promo was recorded earlier in the week at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York. The ad revisited Letterman and Winfrey's Super Bowl spot from 2007, but with another person watching the game with them - late night talk show host Jay Leno. (AP Photo/CBS)
Persuasion
Salty, the Super Bowl and celebrities gone wild

A roundup of the week in advertising, including a salt shaker that can't get any respect

Salty from Knorr Sidekicks
Adhocracy
Where are all the Peggy Olsons?

While the racism and homophobia of the Mad Men era is gone, the sexism lingers

MAD MEN
Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss)
Persuasion
Taking Olympic pot shots

A roundup of the week in marketing, including Olympic outrage over ads featuring gold medalist Michael Phelps

Michael Phelps Subway commercial.
Adhocracy
Why some ads are drool-worthy while others come up dry

Marketers ask Canadians to weigh in on what we want out of advertising

Molson Breweries TheRant
Created
Billboards go old school

A new campaign for a Calgary technical institute is getting kind of old – but in a good way

SAIT Polytechnic: Aging billboards
Noted
Seal of disapproval

U.S. advertising regulator asks Miller Lite to drop its claim of special bottle-sealing technology

Cans of Miller Lite beer are seen on display at a store in Palo Alto, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. MillerCoors started advertising flagship Miller Lite's 'Taste Protector' caps and lids last summer. But MillerCoors acknowledges the tops don't use new technology so its ads can't imply they do, the National Advertising Division Council of Better Business Bureaus said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
Quoted
Oh, grow up

Infant wear marketer uses other companies' ads to get our attention

IWannaBeABaby.com, which defaced - er, altered - movie, fashion, and other posters around NYC with stick-on blue pacifiers promoting the company.
30-second spots
Arousing some interest in Ad Ball

Dispatches from the world of media and advertising

Creative Director John Speakman and Account Coordinator Bryan Iwanczuk, both from Partners and Edell
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