Stay Free! is a bi-annual magazine with a blog component. Unlike Adbusters, the culture jamming subversives at Stay Free! are funny. And funny is good. I like funny. Don't you? …
First Crispin Gets A Development Deal, Now These Guys
According to Variety, sophmoric web site, CollegeHumor.com has struck a development deal with Paramount. The studio is looking for the next Animal House (good luck), and the web site's founders are looking to get listed in the IMDb. CollegeHumor.com signed a book deal with Penguin a few months ago, with the "CollegeHumor.com Guide to College" expected to be released in April. The site also operates a comedy tour. …
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Big Guys Jump On Live Content Opportunities
New York Times: In a bid to widen significantly the audience for concerts and live events, America Online and XM Satellite Radio are backing a venture that will deliver live performances to Internet, satellite and wireless customers and through other media. The venture is expected to start offering its performances this fall. Many of them will originate from arenas and theaters owned by the AEG division of the …
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Cherry Chalkwork
Flickr user, Lizzy Poo, shares a gallery of her chalk drawings for Roth's--a 12 store supermarket chain in Oregon. Here's her masterpiece. …
Station Domination
Lewis Lazare: Get ready for some station domination. The term, which has a definite ring to it, refers to an ad placement tactic where an advertiser commandeers all available ad space at a location and bombards consumers with a desired message without fear of any other advertiser causing a distraction. Beginning this month, Dove and its ad agency, Ogilvy & Mather/ Chicago, are employing station domination at the …
Dem Guv’ment Peeps Don’t Write Good
Here's an interesting story from the AP: States spend nearly a quarter of a billion dollars a year on remedial writing instruction for their employees, according to a new report that says the indirect costs of sloppy writing probably hurt taxpayers even more. The National Commission on Writing, in a report to be released Tuesday, says that good writing skills are at least as important in the public sector as in …
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Tag. You’re It.
The Guardian spoke with Yahoo founder, Jerry Yang last week. What was it about Flickr that made it such a must-have acquisition? Yang: There's a lot we can achieve through this acquisition because we'll be able to leverage their leading technology and product features such as tagging (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagging). The internet's a driving force in the change from mass media to "my media", in which consumers …
Lazare Takes The Gloves Off
Sun Times advertising writer, Lewis Lazare, has been on a role, of late. Today he blasts Crispin Porter + Bogusky for their lame remake of the 1971 classic, "I'd Like To Buy the World a Coke." Lazare likes to give out grades, and CP+B gets an "F" for the new "I'd Like to Teach the World to Chill." They say advertising often reflects the culture in which we live. Well, if you want to confront the heart-rending truth …
