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Signpost To New Space: Media Arts (Not Advertising) Defines The Industry Now
Palladium Boots and VBS.tv, a division of Vice, have teamed up to create lifestyle content meant to entertain hipsters in need of footwear. According to Ad Age, Virtue (the in-house agency at Vice) is agency of record for Palladium's global creative and media accounts--a unique position for an in-house agency. Ad Age points out that "media companies have been working harder to staff up their creative services groups …
Ad Man of the Decade, Hat Model and Budding Talk Show Host
Alex Bogusky doesn't have enough to do, so he's hosting a live show on Justin.tv. Watch live video from FearLess Q+A on Justin.tv If you'd like, you can keep up with the show on Twitter. …
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Give Karjaluoto The Big Button He Wants
Eric Karjaluoto's new book Speak Human is about how small companies can outmarket their larger competitors by getting personal. To promote the book and the ideas therein, Karjaluoto is sending out copies with handwritten notes to members of the industry press (thanks Eric!) and making videos for his book's YouTube page. Like this one (careful, he uses curse words throughout): …
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Now There’s A Tool To “Automagically” Fix Your iTunes Library
It's a rare software product that launches with the help of Biz Markie and Andy Milonakis. TuneUp must be something special. …
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Wonder What’s Going On In The Kitchen? No Need.
To help launch Damico Kitchen & Osteria in the Chambers Hotel in downtown Minneapolis, Brew Creative placed cameras in the kitchen and streams the images live and uncut every night at damico-kitchen.com. They're also beaming the images to a massive screen in the courtyard of the hotel, which is visible to traffic, and pedestrians along Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis' busiest thoroughfare. Regarding this so-called …
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Did You Know That Lotus Knows?
Given the concern people have for their privacy in online environments (as noted this morning by Danny G.), Lotus Knows is kind of a strange campaign. Learn more about IBM's desktop product at LotusKnows.com. …
Entertain & Inform, Then Entertain Some More
Candace Bushnell is working with Maybelline on The Broadroom, a made for the Web knock off on her hit show Sex in the City. Episodic content. Episodic content. Episodic content. How many times will Stuart Elliott of the The New York Times and I go over this? Web series are being created specifically for advertisers, borrowing a strategy from the early days of radio and television when shows like "The Kraft Music …
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