Sometimes an ad gets just a little too truthful for its own good. By the time this 1972 full-pager for Benson & Hedges 100’s ran in Life magazine, smoking was widely understood to be associated with a range of serious diseases. So, sure, let’s equate using our product to jumping out of a plane. Bought by Philip Morris in 1958, Benson & Hedges is a British brand and still a subsidiary of the American conglomerate Philip Morris International. This ad was part of a larger “favorite cigarette break” campaign that leaned into the fact that Benson & Hedges offered longer cigarettes at the same price point, so people kept accidentally snapping the suckers in two. “Nobody had ever mutilated a cigarette before in American advertising—cigarettes, like automobiles, had always been treated with reverent respect by their manufacturers,” Mad Woman Mary Wells Lawrence wrote in her 2002 memoir “A Big Life (In Advertising).” “Anything anti-establishment seemed smart in the mid-’60s, so our advertising made Benson & Hedges wildly hip and cool and the cigarette to be seen with.” (Lawrence, the first female CEO listed on the New York Stock Exchange, is still alive at 91. Must not have been a smoker.) But the times? They are a-changin’. Benson & Hedges parent PMI was in the news last week as merger talks between it and Altria Group, another American purveyor of cancer, broke down. Altria itself holds a minority stake in Juul Labs, the embattled e-cigarette maker... Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-30 09:00:00 UTC ]
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Ireland’s Nielsen-measured market has enjoyed strong, UK-beating growth this year to date, with a grass-roots author campaign propelling the late Emma Hannigan to the top of the bestseller lists. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Welcome to Ad Age's Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. You can get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. Search for "Ad Age" under "Skills" in the Alexa app. What people are talking about today: Chance the Rapper is also a... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Combined North American sales of graphic novels and periodical comics declined about 6.5% to $1.01 billion in 2017, although graphic novel sales via the book trade were essentially flat. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Solid but unspectacular growth in print value and volume has been posted through Nielsen BookScan in the first half of 2018, with range the key in the absence of a breakout trend. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Runaway bestseller Sapiens established Yuval Noah Harari as a staple of the smart-thinking non-fiction field; four years on, Vintage and Riot Communications hope to take the Israeli’s new work, 21 Lessons, to an even broader readership. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Italian book publishing icon Stefano Mauri speaks at the Readmagine conference about how the digital dynamic has affected Italy's book marketplace. The post Italy’s Stefano Mauri in Madrid: Three Points of Digital Impact on the Book Market appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Half of U.S. and European publishers are neutral over the potential market for selling and licensing short-form video content. The post Digiday Research: Publishers are lukewarm on market for short-form video appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After a change Facebook made June 28, you can now see how much publishers advertise on the platform. The post Here’s how many Facebook ads some publishers are running on their main pages appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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UPDATE: After this article was published, Facebook reversed its decision that the Walmart ad was political and required a "paid for by" disclosure. "The aim of this policy and authorization process is increased authenticity for political ads on Facebook," a spokeswoman said in an email. "It... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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John Styring is launching a new mass market publisher, Curious Universe, after forming a 50-50 joint venture with Australian publisher Hinkler. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It’s often said that the biggest portion of television advertising is done by TV networks themselves for tune-in promotion. With this in mind, networks might want to take another look at print magazines, based on consumer ad recall data from GfK MRI’s Starch Advertising Research in the... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook is standing by its policy to include news publishers’ promoted stories in a political ad archive, disappointing publishers. The post Facebook tweaks political ads policy, but not enough to satisfy irate publishers appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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UK and US editors are in Germany this week—on a trip organized by the Frankfurter Buchmesse—and hearing German publishers address a big issue in the market right now: finding more book buyers. The post A Developing Snapshot of a Market: Frankfurter Buchmesse’s Editors’ Tour of Germany appeared... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Welcome to Ad Age's Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. You can get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. Search for "Ad Age" under "Skills" in the Alexa app. What people are talking about today: AT&T quickly followed up its... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Vintage is organising a fundraising walk to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the NHS and to celebrate the important contribution made by nurses. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Increasing pressure on sales and costs together with fewer customers on the shopfloor has created a challenging bookselling environment in Germany. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook head of global news partnerships Campbell Brown explained in a blog post why news publishers will not be exempted from the social network's recent introduced policy on political ads. Facebook announced last month that all election-related and issue ads in the U.S. on both Facebook and... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2018-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Campaigns for Imogen Hermes Gowar's The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock (Vintage) and Rupy Aujla's The Doctor's Kitchen (HarperCollins) have been ranked among the best marketing campaigns of spring 2018. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time Warner Inc. is no more. Late Thursday, AT&T Inc. announced that it completed its $85-billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc., just two days after a federal judge in Washington gave the deal the green light. AT&T wasted little time consolidating its hard-fought prize — a blockbuster... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Campbell Brown, head of global news partnerships at Facebook, said publishers have "welcomed" the company's approach to including them in their political ads policy. Mark Thompson, CEO of The New York Times, called bullshit. Brown and Thompson were discussing the findings in the 2018 Reuters... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2018-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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