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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At a time when premium publishers have pulled out of Facebook Instant Articles, Apple is showing that it is open to creating custom units for publishers. The post For Axios, Apple News beats Google AMP and Facebook Instant Articles appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Unless you have been living under a digital rock, the mounting outrage about fake impressions is quickening, commensurate with a deepening understanding of ad tech fraud among advertisers. Recently, Forrester confirmed advertisers' suspiscions in a study titled "The End of Advertising As We Know... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Global vision, local service' is how Bookwire has pushed deep into its Latin American expansion after success in Germany and Spain. The post Bookwire’s Spanish Markets Footprint: Selling More Ebooks ‘In the Jet Stream’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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MediaRadar is a cloud-based intelligence platform which uses data science to give ad sales advice on millions of brands. The company published a trend report on Tuesday, Vertical Video Market Snapshot: Q1 2017, which analyzed the use of vertical video advertising by media properties in the first... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Frankfurt Book Fair's 'The Markets' conference explores an industry that keynote speaker Andrew Wylie says stands 'at odds with the nationalist agenda.' The post Frankfurt’s ‘The Markets’ Conference: France, India, Southeast Asia, UK, USA appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Even as German booksellers see online efforts pay off, consumption patterns are weaker, says a new report: 'A truly distressing drop in customer frequency." The post Germany’s 2016 Book Market Report: ‘Stable Amid Transformation’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Video publishers on Facebook and Instagram now have a new measurement option, as the social network announced that video view metrics for those two platforms will be added to CrowdTangle starting Thursday. Facebook said in a release that publishers will now have another way to track emerging... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Diversity is not a "marketing trend” and publishers should not "dehumanise" readers or black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) authors, Nikesh Shukla told delegates to The Bookseller's Marketing and Publicity Conference. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Consumers are looking to brands to tell stories in ways that feel "modern, connected and personal" in a world that is going through an "unprecedented state of change", Julia Kenyon, director of brand and content marketing of BBC Worldwide has said. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton has been crowned Marketing Team of the Year for its "consistently high standard" of campaigns run over the past 12 months. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Brands advertising on Facebook will soon have more control over where their ads appear. The social network is rolling out several tools aimed at providing more transparency before campaigns go live. The latest additions, announced today, will provide advertisers with a list of publishers up... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Instagram Wednesday introduced a clearer way for users to determine when posts by influencers or publishers are the results of commercial relationships with the businesses they are posting about. The Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing network said in a blog post that users will begin seeing... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook released a case study touting the success video-game publisher Activision experienced with a recent advertising campaign for Destiny 2, its upcoming first-person-shooter release. To start, Activision raised awareness of Destiny 2 across both Facebook and Instagram by releasing teaser... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Bookseller Marketing & Publicity Conference 2017 takes place on Tuesday 13th June. Follow along here. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook began testing ads in the related articles section of its Instant Articles in late March, and the results for publishers in the test group promoted the social network to expand the test to all publishers Thursday. Facebook introduced Instant Articles in May 2015 as a way to enable... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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There's money to be made with Facebook's mid-roll video ads -- if you have scale. The post ‘It’s going to be a slow burn’: Publishers are starting to see money from Facebook’s mid-roll ads appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In a BookExpo presentation, Goodreads explicated a publisher's elevation of a title to 'Times' bestseller status using the platform's amplification. The post Marketing: Anatomy of a St. Martin’s Hit Built on the Goodreads Platform appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Julia Kingsford explains why the difference between marketing and publicity doesn’t really matter as long as you have a strategy. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The executive director of marketing at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, who spent 20 years with the company, died earlier this week. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Book Marketing Society has announced the winners of the best marketing campaigns of January to March 2017, featuring work for Adrian Mole's 50th anniversary and Chimamanda Nogozi Adichie’s Dear Ijeawele, among others. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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