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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Advertising & marketing
If there was one football game the social media folks at Delta Airlines might’ve taken a pass on, it’s the one between the Seattle Seahawks and the Minnesota Vikings in the NFL playoffs this Sunday. Read more →
Allstate is the latest company to feature same-sex marriage and parenting as part of its advertising strategy. Read more →
The cultural phenomenon known as the ‘yule log’ — the video of a fire burning endlessly for those who don’t have a fireplace yet long for the romance of a warm blaze, has been updated.
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It’s not even December yet and we have a clubhouse leader in the ‘Tear my guts out, why doncha?’ competition for 2015. Read more →
A new online ad for toilet paper — toilet paper! — feels like a revolutionary acknowledgement that society has changed. The Cleavers are dead. Read more →
There’s no such person as Gil Fulbright, although the group, Represent.Us, contends that they’re everywhere; the financial elites that control politics and the candidates who take their cash. Read more →
Bob Dylan, TV pitchmanGeneral Mills has done it again with its latest ad for Cheerios. Read more →
Ragnar has been — or was — the motorcycle-riding cheerleader for the team since 1994. Is he done? The Vikings haven’t commented. Read more →
Kim Davis’ refusal to issue marriage certificates to same-sex couples in her corner of Kentucky is pretty good for the laundry soap business. Read more →
A sign at an American Legion in Rochester, Minn., is becoming must-see gawking.
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It’s all over but the last moment of Zen for fans of Jon Stewart, who hosts his last Daily Show tonight.
Even Arby’s, constantly lampooned by Stewart, claims to be sorry to see him go. Read more →
The barn once featured an advertisement for Sugardale wieners but that’s been wiped from the landscape in favor of the ad for Culver’s. Or is it a genuine article of gratitude? Or both? Read more →
The researchers at the University of Texas Austin acknowledge that heavy smoking is still declining, but light smoking is increasing. Read more →