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6 Recent Marketing Campaigns That Were Pretty Awesome Learn why these campaigns worked and where their success was noticeable.

By Ann Handley

This story appears in the May 2015 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »

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I've been thinking about some great marketing campaigns of recent months—those I might consider the "best."

But I find myself wondering: What does best mean, exactly? Or, more simply: Is popular the same as best? If something is popular, can it also be good?

Hemingway would say no. "If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work," he famously declared.