Toyota gets it: better late than never

So this Toyota ad started showing up today… It looks like Toyota is beginning to get ahead of the curve. There is a decent amount of information now on Toyota’s recall site. I just have to wonder how long Americans are going to allow them to get away with...

WXDJ El Zol almost old enough to drink

February 5th, 1990, WXDJ signed on. It is now the oldest continuously operating spanish FM with the same call letters, format and logo. To celebrate, they will be playing the top 95 songs of the last 20 years, and trying to get you to pay cold hard cash to sponsor it....

Toyota recall advertisement fails miserably

How much you want to bet a 20-something New York creative team put this ad together? And they probably do not even own cars… Sorry, in an ad about unintended acceleration the words “temporary” and “pause” are not good choices. And the...

Supreme Court rules on commercial speech

A divided Supreme Court today ruled that the US government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections. No matter who does the spending, “political spending” in elections is usually in the form of advertising. On the practical...