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Beer’d Beauty

Carlsberg, a brewery in Denmark, launched a line of male grooming products earlier this year that included shampoo, conditioner, and body lotion.  This month they are expanding their products to include shaving gel, aftershave, and mustache cream; just in time...

The Future is Here

October 21, 2015, is the future date that Doc Brown and Marty McFly travel to in the 1989 film Back to the Future II. They jumped into Doc’s fuel cell technology powered DeLorean and gunned it to 88 mph, arriving in the present day. Interestingly enough, some of...

Which Technique Will Win the Ad War?

As the world of advertising continues to grow, diversify, and digitalize, two main problems continue to grow without control—ad blocking and ad fraud. During Advertising Week, an annual marketing and communications conference, these two subjects arose as the...

Cape Cod’s Humble Brag Technique

The most recent campaign for Cape Cod Potato Chips mastered the technique of humble-bragging. “What is humble-bragging?” you may ask. Well, it is a way of telling everyone how amazing you are without being a you-know-what.  Cape Cod Potato Chips has...