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What "Sellouts" Were
Hamilton Nolan · 09/30/13 02:00PMOnce 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.
Brands Are People Now
Hamilton Nolan · 09/20/13 10:48AMHorrifying Anti-Obamacare Ad Warns That Uncle Sam Wants In Your Uterus
Cord Jefferson · 09/19/13 02:05PMAs the October 1 enrollment date for the Affordable Care Act creeps closer each day, one had to expect some feeble pushback from conservatives upset that a black liberal passed a healthcare bill they actually kind of like. But did you expect Uncle Sam with a creepy rictus all up in your uterus and armed with a speculum? Probably not.
Jimmy Fallon's Show Finds Way to Get More Annoying
Hamilton Nolan · 09/18/13 04:26PMAmericans, Who Are All Doctors, Embrace "Gluten-Free" Crap
Hamilton Nolan · 09/16/13 09:31AMJohn 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.
Happy Christmas Advertising Season! *Gunshot*
Hamilton Nolan · 09/10/13 01:45PMAre We Ready to Laugh at JFK's Assassination Yet?
Hamilton Nolan · 09/09/13 12:53PMThis is the Front Page of the Baltimore Sun’s Website
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Hedge Funds Will Be Able to Advertise Soon
Hamilton Nolan · 07/10/13 04:01PMBack-to-School Shopping Season Has Already Begun
Hamilton Nolan · 07/08/13 08:29AMIf 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.
Kmart Swears It Had Nothing To Do with This Really Racist Ad for Kmart
Neetzan Zimmerman · 06/14/13 02:54PMHamilton Nolan · 06/14/13 11:28AM
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Tom Scocca · 06/11/13 11:34AMLate 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."
Brazil Will No Longer Run These 'Happy Being a Prostitute' Ads
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 06/08/13 02:46PMSwiffer Turns Rosie the Riveter Into a Maid, Surprised at Backlash
Cord Jefferson · 06/04/13 01:23PMCheerios Ad Starring Interracial Family Predictably Summons Bigot Wave
Cord Jefferson · 05/30/13 07:39PMA nice Cheerios advertisement whose only discernible difference from other Cheerios commercials is that it depicts an interracial family was forced to disable its YouTube comments section today after it became inundated with virulent racism.