Advertising Archives

Economics

The Future of Work: Stop the Stealing and Pay Us for Our Online Data

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

Jaron Lanier

Social Justice

Sex Doesn’t Sell

And violence might actually hurt sales, a new analysis suggests.

Nathan Collins

Social Justice

Don Draper and the Pursuit of Loneliness

Mad Men was always a sociological commentary on American culture.

Jay Livingston

Economics

That Time a Newspaper Stared Down the Country’s Largest Advertiser and Won

A little-remembered incident helped establish the notion that news organizations could and should preserve their independence from advertisers.

Richard Tofel

Environment

Will the Web Kill Nostalgia?

The Internet may make old products instantly and easily accessible, but it can't return us to the time period in which we enjoyed them.

Paul Hiebert

News in Brief

This Week in Hate Speech

A round-up of news and research on hateful speech, and efforts to silence it.

Kate Wheeling

Economics

Making Advertisements Splash in a Saturated World

Sometimes, the best stuff shocks its audience, but brands are still figuring out the smartest way to navigate the scrum of the viral age.

Rick Paulas

Social Justice

Fast Food Companies Are Breaking Their Own Pledges About How They Advertise to Kids

Newer fast food ads all show healthy foods, but the fruits and veggies are drowned out by everything else.

Francie Diep