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Going shopping can be a hazardous business these days, with some joker likely to enlist you, unwillingly and unwittingly, into their reality ad. This is what happened to some shoppers at a The North Face pop-up store in South Korea: ...

It’s funny isn’t it, the more companies trumpet their efforts to ‘do good’ the more trouble (some of them) find themselves in, for rather more mundane issues like avoiding taxes. Anyway, here’s another foray into do-good land, this time from ...

Earlier today we had Hyundai Canada’s Super Bowl contender, now here’s the US version (these South Koreans really buy into that Super Bowl vibe – $4m for thirty seconds). This is for the Santa Fe SUV and you can see ...

How many times will David Beckham appear at the London Olympics in one form or another (including in person, of course)? Well he won’t be in the GB football team, having lost out to some aged Welshmen but here’s his ...

It’s still all go at General Motors and now global CMO Joel Ewanick (pictured), who doesn’t hang around, is adding to his workload by pitching the global creative account for its biggest brand, Chevrolet. GM’s $3bn global media account is ...

Well there isn’t that much good news but we’re trying to save the global economy from itself today. Here’s a report from the clearly relieved Cincinnati.com. Procter & Gamble spent more than $9 billion on advertising in fiscal 2011, dramatically ...

Well what to make of these? Droga5’s campaign for Jay-Z’s autobiography Decoded is a treasure hunt, with clues to be found at various outdoor destinations. Cheil’s campaign is for an online store where you can order via your smartphone and ...

They do things differently in Japan, where else would you find a company like Yamaha that makes both motorbikes and pianos successfully? But the once-mighty Sony has become a truly rambling conglomerate, rather like Philips in Europe used to be ...