Advertising News: Social Media’s a Riot; Online Retail Up; Don Draper salutes Bill Bernbach, and more

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Reap what you sow, marketers: Social media’s the thing in marketing right now, and no one knows that better than the rioters who have been looting London for the past few days. Did the mobs learn to be flash mobs from advertisers? BNET’s Jim Edwards thinks maybe so.
Boom amid gloom: According to comScore, U.S. online retail spending is up 14% over last year. So relax.
Happy birthday, Bill Bernbach: Agency DDB this week placed this “Mad Men” ad in AdWeek, celebrating what would have been DDB co-founder Bill Bernbach’s 100th birthday. Writes AdWeek’s Chip Bayers of Bernbach, “The Creative Revolution that Bernbach led—which came to define the 1960s for baby boomers as much as rock ’n’ roll did—was about originality in thought and design in service of pushing product.” That calls for an 11:00 a.m. double scotch, damn it.

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