by Steve Smith
Mike Owen, who once ran the 40-person New York office selling Apple's iAds, lands as CRO for mobile video ad company AdColony. Now he gets to sell a very different kind of ad unit using the lessons he learned at Apple. Read the whole story »
by Tyler Loechner
Orange Label Art + Advertising, a Newport Beach-based advertising agency, teamed with UC Irvine's Center of Excellence on Elder Abuse and Neglect to create a strategy and brand identity for Ageless Alliance: United Against Elder Abuse, a "social justice movement" aimed at identifying, preventing, and eliminating abuse. Read the whole story »
by Tyler Loechner
LA ads, a Northridge-based marketing agency, won a 2012 Telly Award for "Excellence in Local TV Campaign, Business-to-Consumer." The award came from LA ads' work on a commercial campaign for its client, Rose Hills Memorial Park and Mortuaries. Read the whole story »
by Steve Smith
In Hollywood last night, Microsoft introduced its rumored tablet running Windows 8. In taking on Apple's market-making iPad, the company is taking more than a few pages from the Cupertino playbook. Read the whole story »
by Tyler Loechner
Los Angeles-based Internet marketing firm ITC Monday announced that they have become a Google certified partner. ITC specializes in SEO operations, and have "climbed to the top 1% of the SEO industry and [can now claim] the right to display the badge of Google certification." Read the whole story »
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Max Page, the 7-year-old actor who starred as Darth Vader in a Super Bowl car commercial, was released from the Children's Hospital Los Angeles hospital on Monday after undergoing open-heart surgery last week. Read the whole story »