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"By the time we're done with this MasterClass, you'll be able to load the dishwasher with maximum effectiveness."

Meeting via conference call for the first time ever this week, the Supreme Court considers a case about our phones.

Advertisements featuring somber piano music and empty streets have become too common, prompting new ones with humor and a focus on first-responders.

Donald Trump won the presidency by using the social network's advertising machinery in exactly the way the company wanted. He's poised to do it again.

There seems to be a recurring motif with all of these ads.

When life gives you quarantine, make surprisingly professional Cheerios commercials.

Whether you're dealing with fertility issues, in recovery, or scared of the coronavirus.

From McDonald's to Verizon, companies advertise that they're still here.

Utica Club was the first beer that was sold when Prohibition ended in 1933. Imagine how good it must have tasted that night. Which is funny, because online reviews for the cheap lager describe it as tasting like crap. Regardless, they sure knew their demographic.

How does a $25 edit stack up against edits that cost $100 and $500?

From protecting privacy to saving the free press, it may be the single best way to fix the internet.

Indian designer Kunel Gaur has reimagined famous brands from around the world with bland, monochromatic packaging. 

MAGA hats, billionaire's tears mugs and Klobuchar's ice scraper all provide a window into the strategy of the candidates selling them.

While artist collabs with corporate entities can feel like gimmicky this one feels extremely right — RZA wastes no precious time prattling on about herbal infusions.

An experiment to find the maximum tolerable dose of media, with the public as the lab rats.

A new email-based extortion scheme apparently is making the rounds, targeting website owners serving banner ads through Google's AdSense program.

Internet revenue tracks remarkably closely to lower latency. But if folks make more money off customers when they reduce latency, there has to be power in increasing it.

Internal documents obtained by the Massachusetts attorney general as part of a new lawsuit are the clearest indication yet that the e-cigarette giant aimed its early advertising at young people who had never smoked.

According to a UK-based advisory board, drinks marketing shouldn't link booze and sex. That's bad news for the threesome-themed winery.

When you pay to avoid ads, brands should know that you don't want to see ads.

Employees told BuzzFeed News they've encountered deadnaming, misgendering, outing and trouble getting surgeries covered with their employee insurance.

A whopping 85 percent of Alphabet's revenue is generated by showing you sponsored links on Google Search and making ads pop up during YouTube videos.

Attorney Darryl Isaacs really brought out the big hammer for this one.

Boycotts this summer hurt SoulCycle. But new data suggests that booming sales from at-home stationary bike competitor Peloton may have done way more damage.

From Elizabeth Warren's planners to "M-[peach emoji]-[mint emoji]" merch from Mike Bloomberg, here's the deal with the candidates' merch offerings.

We love the elegance of these cityscapes and landscapes that have been flipped on their heads to create impossible scenery.

The Internet runs on cookies and so do the ads that we see everywhere. Your phone might be listening to you, but it's mostly your history that helps with uncanny ad placements.

As my brand block list swelled, I ran into a similar issue. Every day, I spent an hour or two diligently blocking brands, but more would surface to take their place. I could never quite reach the post-brand Twitter experience I craved.

I've blocked over 1,000 brands on Twitter, and I still can't stop them.

It's the most wonderful time of year: when brands drop tens of millions of dollars to get 60 seconds of your attention during the Super bowl.

Just silence all around.

Folks, Hulu has "live sports" and other cool shows too. Also it looks like Brady "isn't going anywhere."

The Iowa caucuses might finally settle a long argument over what really works better for politicians: social media or TV?

Did PETA just "All Species Matter" Colin Kaepernick?

This comedian has a total blast trolling Chevy spokesman "Mike."

How offline stores can follow you online.

First we have Elliott slowly reciting "Old Town Road," and now we have him slapping his own butt in a dance battle. What a wonderfully weird world we live in now.

A girl has no name and a girl never let the cold bother her anyway.

When your ad is more unsettling than a horror movie classic, that's really saying something.

Evans, Krasinski, Rachel Dratch and David Ortiz cannot stop talking about smart parking, or "smaht pahk."

Google is trying to foreground sourcing and URLs, but in the process it made its results look more like ads, or vice versa. Bottom line: Google's ads just look like search results now.

Ever wondered if Google Ads are really worth it, but don't have the cash for an experiment? One's been done for you!

In 1995 Pepsi ran a promotion where people could collect Pepsi Points and then trade them in for Pepsi Stuff. A T‑shirt was 75 points, sunglasses were 175 points — and apparently a military Harrier Jet could be yours for 7 million Pepsi Points.

Despite ongoing speculation and investor pressure, Netflix is still declining to adopt an advertising-based business model as a means to boost its revenue.

Planters didn't stop there — no, they would literally like to show us how Mr. Peanut "died" (featuring… Wesley Snipes?).

It's such a simple, silly premise and yet anything works with Sam Elliott's voice and mustache.

The pivot to privacy is roiling the location-based ad market, calling into question its future direction at a time when people are alert about the collection of their geographic information.

Guess this is the fast food restaurant Michael Scott worked at before Dunder Mifflin.

We are repulsed by this, and yet, we want to buy it at the same time.

We talked to Wynne Evans off the much-hated adverts about how he went from an opera singer to one of the most trolled people in the country.

Andrew Cushing, a Brooklyn-based copywriter, gave a challenge to Twitter to send him the name of a fake startup company and he'd provide apropos ad copy that you'd see in the New York City subways. The results don't disappoint.

Three guiding principles to help you create a logo that really stands out

"Plant-based" is now expanding from shorthand for "meat substitute" to refer to just about anything a marketer wants.

"I said, I just wanted slippers!"

Sometimes the most ingenious design is the one hiding in plain sight.

With big brands and niche companies all opting for subtle updates, it's time to wonder: Are major brand overhauls a thing of the past?

Drug companies are courting jails and judges through sophisticated marketing efforts.

Tide Pod shout-outs onscreen. Flirtatious exchanges with companies on Twitter. Netflix may not run ads, but it has become a coveted marketing platform.

Zola told BuzzFeed News it "will be in touch with Hallmark in the coming days regarding a potential return to advertising."

Ten years ago, Folgers coffee first aired their now-infamous "Coming Home" ad. Little did they know, it would go on to inspire everything from parody videos to severely NSFW fan fiction. Here, GQ talks to the people involved in this holiday miracle.