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Kay Ivey Weaves A Tangled Web With TV Spot

Kay Ivey Weaves A Tangled Web With TV Spot

By admin • on March 15, 2010

Alabama gubernatorial candidate Kay Ivey made a name for herself as the state treasurer through TV spots for Alabama’s Prepaid Affordable College Tuition (PACT) program. Ivey encouraged state residents to invest in the program with pleas to “invest now and secure your child’s education.” While

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al.com Bypasses Ad Blockers, Serves Up Sneaky Pop-Unders

al.com Bypasses Ad Blockers, Serves Up Sneaky Pop-Unders

By admin • on July 22, 2009

Full disclosure before we begin. I’m a former al.com employee. I don’t have an axe to grind against my former employer, but you can decide that independently after reading this post. In recent weeks, I’ve noticed in my daily visits to Alabama’s largest

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Compass Unveils BBVA Branding

Compass Unveils BBVA Branding

By admin • on January 15, 2009

Compass Bank’s familiar gold “C” with radial spoke pattern on a red background looks gone for good. BBVA Group, or Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, if you prefer, is reversing the Compass name on its blue field for now. Even the familiar serif typeface is gone. Presumably, the co-branding

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Biggest Ad Winners and Losers: Scale Back Alabama and Church’s Chicken

Biggest Ad Winners and Losers: Scale Back Alabama and Church’s Chicken

By admin • on January 13, 2009

On the season debut of The Biggest Loser last week, I gave Church’s Chicken a pass when their TV spot ran a few times during the show. After all, it could’ve been a make-good for a recent campaign. Now that we’re into week two of the

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Big Communications Abandons Flash for Wordpress on Agency Site

Big Communications Abandons Flash for Wordpress on Agency Site

By admin • on January 12, 2009

Until recently, you couldn’t find a website for an ad agency that wasn’t 100% Flash. Coincidentally, it was hard to find many ad agencies through search engines. You literally had to know the agency’s web address because search engines like Google couldn’t “crawl”

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Recession is Theme in BBJ Book of Lists Ad Copy and Count

Recession is Theme in BBJ Book of Lists Ad Copy and Count

By admin • on January 11, 2009

The ad headlines of the 2009 Birmingham Business Journal acknowledge that the economic downturn has arrived, but more telling evidence may be found inside. In

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What Is Litter? PSA Campaign Educates Through Web, Grassroots

What Is Litter? PSA Campaign Educates Through Web, Grassroots

By admin • on January 9, 2009

The Modern Brand has launched a grassroots and web campaign to educate young people in Jefferson County on what refuse constitutes litter and sign a promise not to contribute to the problem. Local and state agencies teamed

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Selling Surgery with Sex: Sultry Ginsburg Models Set High Expectations

Selling Surgery with Sex: Sultry Ginsburg Models Set High Expectations

By Ed Noles • on December 10, 2008

The sultry outdoor boards of a brunette in a criss-cross halter top and blonde in short shorts are hard to miss. They’ve been up along the metro areas interstates for several months. Images from Ginsburg Dermatology's

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Big Communications Produces Fun, Budget-Friendly Holiday Spot for Colonial Properties

Big Communications Produces Fun, Budget-Friendly Holiday Spot for Colonial Properties

By Ed Noles • on December 9, 2008

Producing quality creative work on a budget is tough for any agency and might be the ultimate test for them. After all, given enough concepting time, film, post-production and copy writers, you’re sure to stumble upon something useful. For this year’s holiday season, Big Communications was

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Thursday 3 Pack - Jack’s, Legacy Credit Union & Birmingham OBGYN

Thursday 3 Pack - Jack’s, Legacy Credit Union & Birmingham OBGYN

By admin • on December 4, 2008

The large rectangle, an Internet ad unit 300 pixels wide and 250 pixels tall, is quickly becoming the ad format of choice. It fits comfortably in the right-hand column of most 1028-pixel wide layouts. On some sites, large rectangles are called “Story Ads” because they appear in the middle

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