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Ad of the Day: PayPal Jeff Goldblum is his usual neurotic self in the company's first national ads

Buying stuff on the Internet is easy and safe with PayPal, says Jeff Goldblum. The actor-comedian stars in four entertaining new online spots from ad agency Publicis & Hal Riney as…

October 16 2012

Mendelsohn Affluent Survey: Small Networks, Big Spends Tiny nets like Ovation and Tennis Channel overdeliver to overspenders

The Mendelsohn Affluent survey measures the lifestyles of folks making six figures and upwards, and this year's edition has some surprising information for television buyers: among the 13,000 wealthy Americans…

September 27 2012

Perspective: I Gotta Wear Shades Celebrities made Ray-Ban sunglasses cool. So why is the brand touting unknowns?

The day that someone writes the definitive manual on how to be cool, there’ll have to be a chapter devoted to sunglasses. And while every brand from Ralph Lauren to…

September 13 2012

Top 10 Commercials of the Week: Aug. 24-31 These spots destroyed property, ran for beer and made muscle music

This week, a tablet computer became a child's playground, Eddie Money went from rock 'n' roll to bittersweet, and Jack Bauer executed some moves in the kitchen (presumably after saving…

August 31 2012

AT&T; Opens Huge Digitally Enhanced Chicago Store 10,000-square-foot shop focuses on technology and lifestyle

AT&T’s newest retail endeavor is almost the complete opposite of the currently en vogue here today, gone tomorrow pop-up stores. On Saturday, the telecom giant will open a 10,000-square-foot shop…

August 30 2012

How 'Ecce Homo' Could Prove Twitter's Worth as a Direct Sales Channel T-shirt sale shows Chirpify potential

We're all about the Ecce Homo today. The Wall Street Journal has an interesting story about how the ruined Spanish painting of Christ may lead to yet another unintended consequence—that…

August 29 2012

Are You Ready for Some (Cheap) Football? Weak economy spurs deal sites to pitch pigskin tix; enter Crowd Seats

In a climate where Groupon’s stock plummet has sullied the general outlook for deals sites offering everything from pole-dancing classes to Bermuda vacations, maybe a pure sports platform is just…

August 28 2012

Top 10 Commercials of the Week: Aug. 10-17 These spots charmed, thrilled and made you think

This week, sports tickets grew on trees, Olympian Usain Bolt stormed the streets, and Google found a detour around a traffic jam on the Internet super-highway.  Many of the hundreds of…

August 17 2012

11 Other Localish Companies Google Might Buy Following Zagat and Frommer's deals, look for search giant to continue to buy local

Early this week news broke that Google is acquiring the venerable guidebook publisher Frommer's. That comes on the heels of the search giant's eye-opening deal to purchase Zagat last year.…

August 16 2012

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