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Why Popcorn Is Nature's Ad Blocker

Sarah Hedgecock · 10/14/13 02:35PM

Researchers in Germany published a study this month on something near and dear to American hearts: mindless eating in front of glowing screens.

What "Sellouts" Were

Hamilton Nolan · 09/30/13 02:00PM

Once upon a time not so long ago, there was an idea: that some things in this world should be able to exist free from the influence of money—that these things should be done because of their own intrinsic value. You would be forgiven for scoffing at the notion that this idea was ever taken seriously at all.

Jimmy Fallon's Show Finds Way to Get More Annoying

Hamilton Nolan · 09/18/13 04:26PM

Between permanently kidnapping The Roots and producing the god damn endless popular cover song medleys that every god damn asshole wants to share with you on Facebook, you might have thought that mop-headed giggler Jimmy Fallon's show had reached Peak Irksomeness. Wrong!

Americans, Who Are All Doctors, Embrace "Gluten-Free" Crap

Hamilton Nolan · 09/16/13 09:31AM

John and Jane Doe, residents of 123 Main Street, Anytown, USA, are just your perfectly average American consumers: board-certified gastroenterologists, who will only purchase "Gluten-Free" food items, because they have scientifically confirmed their own celiac sensitivity with extensive medical testing.

Hamilton Nolan · 07/29/13 07:48AM

Publicis and Omnicom, two staggeringly huge conglomerates of advertising and PR agencies, are combining into one even more staggeringly huge conglomerate, as we march towards a bright future in which one ad company sells all ads to one media company, which controls all entertainment.

Hamilton Nolan · 07/16/13 04:24PM

Hot Pockets is "reinventing" its brand to emphasize the "quality of the ingredients." As you laugh about that, consider the fact that consumers bought $640 million worth of Hot Pockets in the past year.

Hedge Funds Will Be Able to Advertise Soon

Hamilton Nolan · 07/10/13 04:01PM

For 80 years, it's been illegal for hedge funds to advertise to the public, due to various SEC regulations. Now, those regulations are changing. Hedge funds will soon be able to advertise! *Eyes you up and down* Probably not to you, though.

Back-to-School Shopping Season Has Already Begun

Hamilton Nolan · 07/08/13 08:29AM

If the school bell has finally sounded for the final time and the kids are gleefully preparing for several long, hot months of family road trips and spilled frozen dairy dessert substances, it can only mean one thing: time to start your back-to-school shopping now. Now. There is no respite in this world of gloom.

Hamilton Nolan · 06/14/13 11:28AM

You may click here to read a news story about the results of a hot dog eating contest between advertising agency employees.

Your Ad Here

Tom Scocca · 06/11/13 11:34AM

Late last week, Facebook announced that it would be reworking the set of various formats it offers to advertisers, to "simplify" its ad offerings. Among the changes, Ad Age reported, will be the end of a product called "sponsored stories" (although a Facebook executive said the stories would survive "as an idea"). Wired wrote that the changes will make it so that "every ad is automatically retrofitted with a social component."