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Marketing and Advertising News With Attitude by Steve Hall
Marketing and Advertising News With Attitude by Steve Hall
- Pringles: Make a Hero Out of Chips, Win Movie Tickets - 2007-06-25 00:27:34-04
Riding the coattails of Spiderman III, Agency.com, London has put together this weird video contest for Pringles. The idea is to throw together a video with Pringles as the star. We'd call it a stretch to make a hero...
- Scion Woos Wee Deviants with Sheeple Death Warrant - 2007-06-25 00:45:07-04
After reluctance on our part and a helluva lot of persistence on theirs, Scion finally won us over with their Want 2 B Square thing. We even almost dig the cars. Almost. But if we had a scrap of...
- Scion Draws Out our Inner Deviant with Sheeple Death Warrant - 2007-06-25 00:45:07-04
After reluctance on our part and a helluva lot of persistence on theirs, Scion finally won us over with their Want 2 B Square thing. We even almost dig the cars. Almost. But if we had a scrap of...
- Make Fastrack to Fuck Buddies with Furry Four-Legged Friends - 2007-06-25 01:06:23-04
Match.com has this incredible knack for drawing our attention - mainly because they can't hold together a consistent ad campaign, as evidenced here and here and here and here and here. Here they even try being somebody else for...
- NBCU Goes Whor- er, Networking to Push Cheadle - 2007-06-25 01:22:17-04
These days it's not enough to appear on a social networking site; you have to be, like, married to one. On that note, NBC Universal has inked an agreement with Going.com to promote Talk to Me, a new Don...
- Trojan Gets Orwellian on Our Asses - 2007-06-25 01:39:29-04
While other condom-pushers go voodoo and the French go ... French, Trojan has decided to Evolve - a new campaign that takes on an uncharacteristically serious tack to turn condoms into a de facto aspect of the casual encounter....
- Microsoft is Still Not Funny, But We're Down to Launch Balls at Cubicle Cogs - 2007-06-25 01:54:39-04
To help drive its mobile effort and maybe loosen the white collar a little, Microsoft puts together Work Wherever, where you can distract some mildly neurotic, unfunny suited dude and even shoot him in the balls. Kind of. Exciting....
- Miami is Hot But Happy Hour Prevails - 2007-06-25 16:10:55-04
On the eve of ad:tech Miami, it is hot. Seriously hot. Soak through your shirt in ten minutes hot. Of course, that didn't keep us off Miami beach. On a Monday, it was uncrowded but there were the occasional...
- Designer's Dark Side Illuminated in AIGA Campaign - 2007-06-25 20:03:07-04
G leefully celebrating the seemingly unintentional dark side of graphic designers what with terminology such as bleed, ghosting, muting and more, Colle+McVoy created a campaign for the American Institute of Graphic Arts, a part of which is a picture riddle...
- People Do the Strangest Thing When No One's Looking - 2007-06-25 20:27:28-04
Here's (links after more) some kind of weird video campaign for some kind of weird new HBO show called Voyeur which basically looks like an updated HBO-style take on the classic Jimmy Stewart flick Rear Window. Distributed by Jung...
- Gigantic Pepsi Beach Ball Gets Tossed Around the World - 2007-06-25 20:49:30-04
Well this is apropos to our current location, sunny (sort of) Miami Beach Florida. Occasionally at the beach (or waiting in line at Disney for that matter) impromptu games of beach ball break out and that's exactly what happens...
- Giant Smiling Asses to Attack Times Square - 2007-06-25 21:11:06-04
On July 1, giant, naked asses with smiles on them will emblazon a two-story, three-sided bollboard in New York's Times Square for toilet maker Toto Washlet. It's all to promote the company's miraculous toilet, bidet and ass blow dryer...
- Nintendo Wants Us to Know Nicole Kidman Has a Brain - 2007-06-25 21:13:22-04
You'd think after getting paid $12 million to appear in a Chanel ad, Nicole Kidman would have sucked enough money out of th ad industry but no. She had to go and suck more out of Nintendo to promote...
- It Was Hot But It Was Smart: The ad:tech Miami Speaker Party - 2007-06-25 23:34:30-04
We found it. We finally found it. Not that you care but we finally found the ad:tech Miami Speaker Party. It wasn't at 5PM Monday night as some said but at 7PM at the second floor, indoor/outdoor bar where,...
- Fashionably Late, Angela Hits ad:tech Miami - to Raucous Applause - 2007-06-26 14:31:28-04
So I've hit ad:tech Miami - a day late, mind you - and the vibe is totally different from SF. To start with, it's way hotter. And I think somebody with a salsa ghetto blaster is following me....
- Social Networking Perfect For Close Hispanic Family Ties - 2007-06-26 16:51:24-04
The gist of the Hispanic: The State of the Industry panel led by ADN Communications CEO Jose Lopez-Varela with Publicitas VP of Digital Media Paul Meyer, mun2 Director od Digital Media Jose Nestor Marquez and Machado , Garica, Serra...
- In Argentina, Cell Phones Trump Credit Cards - 2007-06-26 17:15:09-04
With 380 million mobile user in Latin America and just 3 major carriers, monopoly-related problems are the norm to say the least. During the ad:tech Miami panel Mobile Advertising in Latin America: When Will it Be a Reality, the...
- ad:tech Miami Exhibit Hall Floor Has No More Landing Pages - 2007-06-26 18:43:17-04
While there haven't been any of the usual booth babes here at ad:tech Miami, which, some would say is a good thing, we were pleased to run into a fully-dressed team from No More Landing Pages, the group that...
- Batanga Miami Party Quite Possibly the Best ad:tech Party Ever - 2007-06-26 23:54:48-04
During the evenings of most ad:tech conferences, we have to troll around the host city to make sure we cover the extensive party scene each night yields. Not so during the first night of ad:tech Miami. While there may...
- Candystand Says 'Bend It' with New Soccer Game - 2007-06-27 06:38:46-04
Fresh off the heat of that spiffy Vector game they recently put together, Candystand hits us with this Free Kick game that challenges you to bend it like a certain Posh-loving soccer player we know. It's simple and okay...
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