GM shook the business world by pulling out of Facebook this week. Are they wrong? Can 900 million Facebook users be wrong? WSJ reports that Goldman Sachs, Accel Partners, and DST Global are just some of the companies that are planning to sell their Facebook shares. As Facebook advertising...

Two new French ad spots for Orangina’s new Miss O! diet drinks star bitchy, scheming canine personas that turn the tables on sterotypical roles. Watch the ads by the Fred & Farid agency. THE PULSE is produced by LdC Media The Creative Network: www.ldcmediacreative.com For free daily...

Jane Maas, former ad executive and author of Mad Women: The Other Side of Life on Madison Avenue in the ’60s and Beyond, talks to WSJ‘s Wendy Bounds about her life in advertising in the ’60s. Log on to www.amazon.com to buy. THE PULSE is produced by LdC Media The...

Babies doing freaky things makes viral gold. Banking on this, while taking a dig at the social obsession to record and share anything and everything, Pepsi NEXT releases their new ad spot in the US. Watch the video. THE PULSE is produced by LdC Media The Creative Network:...

Celebrating its 165th anniversary, Cartier has launched the screen advertisement The Cartier Odyssey, a three-and-a-half-minute film starring Shalom Harlow. Locations included Prague, Spain, the Italian Dolomites, and Paris, where panthers were filmed against the backdrop of the Cartier...

Guerlain commissioned French artists Olivier Kuntzel and Florence Deygas to create this  animated campaign for La Petit Robe Noir, which premiered in France yesterday. The floral fragrance opens with notes of lemon, bergamot, and galbanum, with a heart of marshmallow, iris, and orange...

The next Wes Anderson movie, Moonrise Kingdom, will be released this summer. In the meantime, he’s lent his unpredictable direction to the world of advertising, going behind the camera for two new Hyundai Azera spots. Watch the video for the ad Modern Life. THE PULSE is produced by LdC...

Moira Forbes, publisher of Forbes Woman, talks to Shelly Lazarus, Chairman of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, about her career, and the roles she has played in the advertising and media industry. THE PULSE is produced by LdC Media The Creative Network: www.ldcmediacreative.com For free daily...

Behind the scenes with photographer Robert Polidori at the Bottega Veneta Fall/Winter 2011 campaign, shot at the Palazzo Papadopoli, Venice. The Pulse is produced by LdC Media The Creative Network: www.ldcmediacreative.com For free daily alerts on what you need and want to know, click on...

US. As reported on Brandchannel.com, MAC Cosmetics‘ latest collaboration is with controversial American artist Cindy Sherman. More cutting edge than directional, Sherman has created three characters for MAC, backing their press release statement: ‘You are the Artist, you are your...

Yet another counterfeit issue for a big brand to battle and for customers to be on alert. The fake Apple Store in Kunming China looks exactly like any official Apple store, except for the Apple Store sign on the outside, instead of the brand’s signature  logo. According to the New...

The Louis Vuitton Fall/Winter 2011-2012 advertising campaign will debut in the August 2011 issues of magazines worldwide, but you can see the images now on The Pulse. Creative director Marc Jacobs and uber-photographer Steven Meisel took six young, up-and-coming models to a disused aerodrome...