I-Am-Bored posted this hand-written consumer complaint against Continental Airlines last year. I was unawre of it until today, when Consumerist picked it up. It begins, "Dear Continental Airlines, I am disgusted as I write this note to your about the miserable experience I am having in seat 29E on one of your aircrafts. As you may know, this seat is situated directly across from the lavatory, so close that I can …
Hey Mr. Bartender…
John Condon, Leo Burnett's new chief creative officer recently spoke with Adweek. See the Jan. 23rd print edition. Q. How do you get past a creative block? A. I go for a walk. And if that doesn't doesn't work, I can flush it out with scotch. I'm a bourbon man myself, but I appreciate a leader with Condon's candor. …
Hitting Up The A-List Does Not A PR Strategy Make
From Phil Gomes: A whole bunch of people are talking about this article from a magazine I don't read. Reminds me of something that started early in my career. Something I called "Wall Street Journal Syndrome." Even as a junior employee, it astounded me how a PR team could pole-vault over every expectation and every conceivable measuring stick, only to allow themselves to get beaten up for not getting a "hit" in the …
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Edelman The Blog Snatcher
Steve Rubel is moving to Edelman (from CooperKatz) and taking Micropersuasion with him. According to Ad Age: Rubel is taking a senior VP role at the much larger Edelman, where he’ll craft word-of-mouth and social-media campaigns for a consumer-client list that includes Unilever and Microsoft's Xbox. Edelman paid CooperKatz so Mr. Rubel could keep the name and URL. He won’t, however, be able to carry over the …
It’s Only Satisfying If You Eat It
Snickers is running some great TV ads from BBDO/New York. In particular, I enjoy "Bald," a spot where a man wears a toupee made of Snickers bars, only to be confronted by his co-workers. "Um, Steve, we just want to let your know, we know you're bald. We think you should stop wearing the Snickers." It's ridiculous, of course. Yet, it's also sublime. …
Product Placement Floors It
From USA TODAY: If it's true that opposites attract, then a licensing agreement between Harlequin Romance novels and NASCAR Inc., should be a marriage made in heaven. The first offspring of this new union, a racetrack romance entitled In the Groove by Pamela Britton, goes on sale just a few weeks before the Daytona 500 on Feb. 19. Two other NASCAR-themed love stories will be published this year: On the Edge by …
David Baldwin Speaks (To The Times)
For the past month, McKinney Silver's viral campaign for Oasys Mobile has been bandied about in the bloatosphere. Here we have a clear case of mainstream media following blogs to the story. Oasys, based in Raleigh, N.C., enlisted the advertising firm McKinney & Silver, in Durham, N.C., to introduce its brand inexpensively — with a nontraditional campaign that it hoped would grab the attention of its desired …
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Legal Humor Not Lost On Lawyers
For lawyers, like ad pros, there is seemingly no end to the abuse that must be endured at cocktail parties, on the golf course, etc. Huey Partners in Atlanta helped its media client, The Daily Report, come to terms with this fact. Actually they did more than that, they sold this ad, which is likely to generate some letters, and more importantly some buzz for their trade journal client. The Daily Report, often …