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Twitter deletes Business Insider's Jim Edwards posts due to "copyright infringement"

Business Insider's Jim Edwards writes i "A bank persuaded Twitter to delete my tweets", that Twitter deleted two of his tweets that dis

My Talking Tom children's game has sex ads appear in it

Twice now, the creators of 'My Talking Tom' smartphone app have drawn complaints for serving ads with inappropriate images of semi nude and

Spontex Day, The First Housework Hotline On Twitter

SPONTEX DAY, THE FIRST HOUSEWORK HOTLINE ON TWITTER BY KIDS LOVE JETLAG (FF GROUP)
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The Fall of the House of Reddit

Ellen K. Pao the Interim CEO of Reddit isn't very popular right now.

FortaCloud adds lingerie clad woman to hosting offer on twitter = instant retweets

At first glance the image of a woman in lingerie draped across a bed staring seductively at the camera seems so misplaced in a tweet about discounted

Me & City "Fashion Street View" - A Chinese Fashion Brand Turned Street View into Catwalk #FashionStreetView

Every Fashion Week, labels stage extravagant shows catering only to the elite.
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Waves - The 1st Participative Music Video Using Soundcloud

The two French artists The Geek x VRV reveal their new music video for “Waves”, released on the On and On - 1Ø1 compilation, entirely made with Soun
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Adland reports from the Big Bus Challenge

Busses. They’re big, they’re red, they stick in your head. Adland reports from Exterion Media’s Big Bus Challenge in London. All aboard!
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Tits on the internet - When Fappening becomes UNfappening

Introducing: EMOJEW. The first Jewish emoji app!

Created by BBR Saatchi & Saatchi on behalf of ‘Latet’ - an Israeli charity organization that sends needy families food packages - the app doubles
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Colossal Spark is a crowdsourcing Colossal Joke

Colossal Spark is a brand new crowdsourcing website for advertisers, and creatives alike.
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Facebook: A place for people who don't matter

I bet you thought this would be another one of those "you don't know any of your FB friends IRL" rants.
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Facebook Messenger's Mobile App Terms of Service says it can record your conversations

Facebook Messenger can change the state of network connectivity. Bye bye airplane mode, whenever it fancies.

Porsche #24SocialRace: The First Ever 24-hour Social Race challenging Twitter & Weibo users

The first ever 24-hour social race challenging Twitter & Weibo users For its return to Le Mans after 16 years, Porsche will introduce #24Social

Glamour-sales "Doggy Sales" a digital campaign by Fred & Farid Shanghai

A brand simulates a community manager failure to drive traffic on its website during sales.
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Facebook. A name so nice they monetize your content twice.

As if it weren't enough Facebook cashes in on all your status updates and kitten pictures with its shitty ads, now they're making brands, ba

#ShootTheCookies by McVitie's Bisquits

All cookies are bad and annoying that’s why McVitie’s created a clever tool - #ShootTheCookies which deletes cookies from your computer.
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Slate's Anti Copyright rant sounds like a letter from your psycho ex.

Slate has a new blog post out under their Future Tense section entitled "Hollywood's Copyright Lobbyists Are Like Exes Who Won't Give U
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Amnesty International's brand in prostitution trouble on twitter #QuestionsforAmnesty

In a rather shocking move.

Vicomte A - "You share, she strips" Social Striptease case study

Social Striptease: Men's Lust For Female Nudity Used to Promote Fashion Brand Across Social Media

Absolute Unique Access "case study" (2013) 2:00 (Argentina)

Absolut wins the dubious award of being the first brand to pollute a new social medium with advertising.
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Home Depot spends all day apologizing for chimp-tweet

Home Depot on twitter is spending most of their work day apologizing for sending out the tweet above, where the question is: "Which drummer is no
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Google can use your +1s in ads

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Coca cola & the social robot - when you can't be there, it can go for you.

Israelis love social high-tech, as demonstrated by these ladies fawning over a Coke-robot.
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Mentos the Freshmaker makes Facebook news about you.

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Rolling Stone proves Adland's social media theory.

By now most of you have heard Rolling Stone magazine generated controversy by featuring bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover of its magazine
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Sharknado and the Social Media Science Fiction

By now you've heard that Sharknado drew 387,000 mentions on social media. Some of them were jokey joke snarks from celebrities and everything.
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Adland's anti-slacktivism trend "liking won't help" - times three!

"Liking isn't helping" is the headline in the Gold Lion winning Singaporian ad campaign for crisisrelief.org.
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Crisis Relief Singapore - Liking ins't helping / Flood / War / Earthquake

"Liking isn' helping" yells this grunge font that seems straight from the 90s.

FRED & FARID GROUP launches a new version of the Bridge #9263 between Paris and Shanghai

Fred & Farid Group Bridge #9263 was created and produced by Kids Love Jetlag Shanghai between Fred & Farid Paris and Fred & Farid Shanghai
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Nando's spoof Old Spice - and Old Spice spoofs Nando's right back!

Welcome to Nando's, home to legendary South African flame-grilled PERi-PERi chicken and sauces, where we make parodies of Old Spice "the man

Unicef - Likes don't save lives - Brothers (2013)

Unicef Sweden want all you slacktivists to stop clicking "like" and start donating money again.
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Budweiser, "Buddy Cup" (2013) 1:00 (Brazil)

Agencia Africa and Bolha bring us The Buddy Cup. Two cups with chips in them that allow you to become insta-facebook friends with a fellow drinker.
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Coca-Cola drinks the social media Kool-Aid

Is it that we just can't admit that social media is not a money maker?
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Ladies on twitter explain to @atlassian that men can not be "pretty"

THIS JUST IN: MEN CAN NOT BE "PRETTY" - so I have been fooled all these years when I've longingly let my eyes linger on the pretty men

Smart car run with pigeon poop joke in case study.

Smart car responded to Clayton's tweetjoke with a neat infographic about bird poop, and we applauded how faboo their attitude was, as they took a
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Referer spam still going strong - but who checks these days?

Referer spam has been around since at least 2002 when Wired wrote "When the spam hits the blogs" and even interviewed little ol' me abo
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How Instagram killed Firegram

STOKER - trailer 'GIFs for India' - (2013)

They call this the first trailer made out of Gifs, lifting the inspiration and clips from the microsite Letters to India where all sorts of repeated m
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SocialmediaWeek - Nobody Wants To Be Your Friend - (2013)

Ok, I like "security is making me leave. Sadface" - but I've seen this idea before.

McDonalds - Spicy Thai McBistro Chicken Sandwich / Pre roll ad - (2013) Canada

In this made for youtube pre-roll ad, the spicy sauce is meant to be igniting the player below.

Stockholm City Mission "You'll never wear that again" (2013) 2:30 (Sweden)

fashion goes out of style. And yet you still have all that stuff in your closet.

Saint Isodore Blesses Leo Burnett Belgium's new website

To launch their new website, Leo Burnett Belgium traveled to Seville, Spain to get an The Archbishop to bless their website.
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From my cold dead hands, Groupon

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Social media usage changes with age.

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Instagram's new TOS is social suicide - UPDATED

Instagram pulls twitter integration, need to puff their own site stats to 'monetize' and keep investors happy

A couple of weeks ago, Instagram showed everyone their new profile pages, where you, me and everyone else could now see peoples Instagram collections

Sandvertising

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Mellow Mushroom Pizza Bakers - @mellowmushroom follows @richnowalk - (2012)

Trippy Trippy Pizza!
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Cats that look like pinup girls - using tumblr to attract people to your shop's FB page

At first glance Cats that look like pinup girls is your usual cute one-hit-tumblr-with a twist, Reddit-worthy instantly as it has the cat & pinup
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Depressed Copywriter 2.0 now with added lazy - sorry, I mean "crowdsourcing digital content"

Depressed copywriter is back,only to tell us they're now lazy too, though we knew that already - as we pointed out that they "liberated a 35
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Your favorite monopoly is now shaping global politics

We already know Google's record of non-engagement when it comes to piracy.
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Who killed Amanda Palmer’s career?

Hey, here’s a question. Can anyone out there name one crowdsourced ad that has been good? Well, there's Silk's Bukkake Ad! Oh wait.

Catroulette

Here's a fun idea brought to you by the Famous Brussels peeps in Belgium: Catroulette.
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Smart Car just outsmarted all other cars on SM

When resident adgrunt @Claymore a.k.a Clayton Hove quipped "Saw a bird had crapped on a Smart Car.
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