Bond sales push up Allianz operating profit of $217M
Allianz Life Insurance of North America on Tuesday posted a 72 percent increase in first quarter operating profit of $217 million compared with $126 million last year.
Robert Capa and Gerda Taro: love in a time of war
Capa and Taro lived, loved and died on the frontline, becoming the most famous war photographers of their time. As a new novel about them is published, we explore their real relationship It begins with a photograph. In 1934 a struggling Hungarian photographer, André Friedmann, living in exile in Paris, is commissioned to take publicity pictures for a Swiss life insurance company's advertising ...
Betty White Music Video Wins Silver Telly Award
The 33rd Annual Telly Awards recently honored The Lifeline Program with a 2012 Silver Telly Award, the highest Telly accolade, for its viral YouTube music video, “I’m Still Hot -- featuring Betty White.” Starring the Emmy winning actress rapping alongside British singer Luciana, the video spawned overwhelming national media attention and more than one million YouTube hits shortly after its ...
READ: President Obama’s speech kicking off his reelection campaign
On Saturday, President Obama officially kicked off his reelection campaign with speeches in Richmond, Virginia and Columbus, Ohio. This is the White House’s official transcript of the Virginia address, though I’ve removed the 60-some times where the text notes that the audience broke into appaluse. Here’s Dan Balz’s take . Here’s my article on what Obama is likely to do if he wins a second term ...
The AdweekMedia Plan of the Year
Branded entertainment Webisodes have been popping up on the Internet lately almost as frequently as those infuriating “your mailbox is full” e-mail messages.