Choosy moms choose Jif. Everyone else just buys what they can afford. A poor harvest caused an increase in raw peanut prices, which sent the cost of peanut butter soaring. Better start looking for a new BFF, Jelly.

Speaking of new relationships, Ketchum has been named the agency of record for P&G’s Gillette business, ending the brand’s 20-year PR rapport with fellow Omnicom sister agency Porter Novelli.

Severed ties between NBA players and owners seemed to intensify when the league announced it would cancel the first two weeks of the season due to the current lockout, prompting many players to take their responses to Twitter.

And the one might even be eyeing the NFL. Maybe he’d finally get a ring there.

Following the announcement it would implement a monthly debit card fee, Bank of America hopes to recast its image with a new marketing scheme aimed at the company’s charitable and small business works.

A “relationship” Anthony Weiner probably wishes he’d never started is one with Traci Nobels, a former cheerleading coach involved in the former congressman’s sexting scandal. Nobels has written a tell-all titled “I Freinded You” to set the record straight.

Some relationships are a disaster from the start. In the face of Qwikster’s quick kill-off, Business Insider collected 15 of the worst product launches ever.

Will the keyboardless keyboard join them?



Something conservative activists are hoping isn’t a failed launch—a new Tumblr called “We are the 53 percent,” meant to represent the 53 percent of Americans who pay federal income taxes. As The Washington Post reports, it’s a direct counterpunch to Occupy Wall Street protesters’ “We are the 99 percent” mantra, or as supporters of this new movement would say, the 46 percent of American freeloaders.

And it would seem this vignette of trippy cereal ads explains how that 46 percent got that way. (via Liquid Generation)



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