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Rich Silverstein Is Tired Of All The Bushit
Legendary San Francisco ad man, Rich Silverstein, has teamed with Huffington Post to offer poster-sized reminders of the times we're living through. The 24" x 36" lithograph posters come in three versions: Villains of the GOP, Worst Events of the Bush Years, and Slogans of the Bush Years. They go for $20 each -- or one can buy all three for $50 (plus shipping and handling). Limited Edition Silkscreens of each, …
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Non-Smokers Want Some Breathing Room
Tiny Gigantic points to a motherload of executions from Japan's "smoking manners" campaign. Here's one that speaks to me: …
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Crispin Gets All “Last of the Mohicans” On Runners’ Asses
Eyebrows were raised earlier this year when Nike awarded a piece of its business to CP+B. After all, Nike's top of mind presence can be traced directly to the decades of outstanding work from Wieden + Kennedy. I guess, loyalty doesn't mean much when you have shoes to sell. According to The Wall Street Journal, CP+B hoped to break away from all that history. "We didn't want it to feel like a Nike commercial in the …
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Testing The Merits of Pretesting
Every month, Steve McKee of McKee Wallwork Cleveland writes a column in Businessweek that puts in simple terms what real CEOs and marketing folks ought to know about advertising. This month, he takes on testing: Think about how a focus group works—people are invited in, fed a meal, and paid an incentive to offer insights and opinions that the sponsoring marketer can use. The pressure is on to contribute something of …
Santa Chat Goes South In A Hurry
According to Network World, technology is only as perfect as those who build it. Case in point: Microsoft recently added a Santa bot to Windows Live Messenger, so users could insert Santa into their IM buddy list. But sadly, Santa began to waver off topic telling children: “It’s fun to talk about oral sex, but I want to chat about something else....” Microsoft says, "...as soon as we were alerted, we took steps to …
Drinking The Virtual Kool-Aid/Coca-Cola
Second Life? What's that? Coca-Cola is going another way with their new virtual world called "Metro CC." According to The New York Times, Coke is introducing its online island within a larger virtual world site called there.com that tries to filter out unsavory content. The company that operates there.com, Makena Technologies, uses software to censor user postings for foul language and employs a team of people to …
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Media Makers Needed
According to Adweek, Hill Holliday is stepping up to the advertainment plate by creating a new position for John Dukakis. The former governor's son will be svp, director of branded entertainment for the Boston-based shop. Baba Shetty, evp, chief media officer at Hill, Holliday, said: "These days we're not just buying media—we're often creating media, and branded entertainment is an increasingly important part of the …
A-Ten-Shun
Ed Cotton of Butler Shine & Stern is asking some pertinent questions. Can people stand watching a campaign evolve over time or do you have to have a quick hit? Surely, the ever- shrinking window of personal communication must be having an impact of broad scale communication? Can we even be bothered to see phases of a campaign build and roll out over a two-month period from tease to reveal and on? I think there's …
Can Interactive Shops Step Up?
It's been my experience when talking to interactive shops and looking at their work that they're more focused on executing ideas rather than brand-building strategies and initiatives that can be used across all media. They're good at what they do, but it's a niche, and they're not scrambling to hire the right people to change that. A new survey reported in Adweek seems to support that: Digital agencies are improving …