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Product Placement Failure.  [via]

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Good on you Jim. A polite ad for train etiquette. [via]

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Forbes analyses why "really good food photography drives up likability."

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Patterns emerge showing buzzed online shopping is on the rise.

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"The American Girl Doll franchise is a stroke of marketing genius." An interesting Editorial on the American Girl franchise.

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Welcome to the New Mental Model of Marketing

Download the free eBook Zero Moment of Truth.

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Nike Bench Advertising

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This February, Quick, a French fast food chain, will debute Star Wars-themed burgers to promote the re-release of “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace” in 3D.

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RDCA Karate Class Ads [via]

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Kraft Foods teams up with Intel to create a smart vending machine, iSample.

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Google+ gains 625,000 new users a day, and may reach 400 million in the next year.

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Brand Identity by XKCD

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Transparency vs. Strategy 

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Some companies take holiday window displays to new heights.

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New Zealand church, St. Matthew-in-the-City, nabs Christmas publicity once again. 

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What a trap.  [via]

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Follow Up of the Day: The iconic Yahoo billboard — an emblem of a bygone era built over a decade ago during the heyday of the dot-com boom — was brought down today by Clear Channel, which announced last month that the space had suddenly become available.

The move surprised some, considering the billboard’s status among Bay Bridge commuters, and the relatively low cost of keeping the sign up ($65,000 a month).

Is Yahoo! in trouble? A spokesperson told the San Jose Mercury News that the company was merely focused on “new and innovative ways” to market themselves.

Namely the kind that don’t cost a lot of money.

Check out the billboard’s better days below, and on its official Flickr page, which, unlike its subject, is still up.

[sfgate / mercurynews / flickr / photo: shawn.clover.]