International Herald Tribune reports that George Jones, Alan Jackson, Keney Chesney, Van Morrison, John Fogerty, John Hiatt, The Knack, Alejandro Escovedo, Kenny Loggins and Joni Mitchell all share space on the First iPod--the digital music player given to President Bush by his twin daughters last summer. The leader of the free world/oil industry likes to use his iPod as an excercise companion when mountain biking …
Sometimes The Commercials Write Themselves
Joseph Jaffe of Jaffejuice put together a rough clip of Tiger Woods' amazing shot at the 16th hole of The Masters yesterday for a spot Nike & Wieden & Kennedy should--and probably will--do. Check it out here. That's CBS's Verne Lundquist making the call--and it couldn't have been scripted any better. …
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Try To Make It Real Compared To What
As Seth Godin considers Eddie Harris and Les McCann's performance at Montreaux Jazz Festival in 1969 and the various ways that performance has been handed down over time from LP to digitally remasted CD to MP3, he laments the loss of authenticity in digital reproductions. I wonder what happens when our digital culture has nothing to do but spread pale imitations of the original experiences? I wonder what happens when …
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Cell Phone Interruptus Reaches The Bedroom
Ad Age reports that a new global study, "Wireless Works: Exploring New Brand Connections," from Omnicom Group's BBDO Worldwide and Proximity Worldwide surveyed more than 3,000 mobile phone owners. The purpose of the study was to "better understand how consumers interact with their phone," according to a BBDO spokesman. Fourteen percent of the world's cell phone users report that they have stopped in the middle of a …
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Talk About Gettin’ ‘Em In The Franchise Early
McSuckle image found on Flickr Note: "dot at" is Austria's two-digit domain extension and McDonalds.at is the official McDonald's site in Austria …
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I Voted Dan Wieden As “Most Congenial” And Donny Deutsch For “Freakiest Nipples”
Adweek is now letting you rate agencies in all sorts of categories, like most creative, least creative, best reel, worst reel, best run, most likely to be a sweatshop, etc. It's like a 35-question survey, and I think you can do it only once. So have fun. Every vote counts! …
Brand Evangelists All Over Flickr
We know that brand managers need be monitoring what's being said about their brands in the bloatosphere, by using Technorati, for instance. It might also be wise for them to see what's being posted to Flickr and other photo-sharing sites. In a quick experiment I turned up all sorts of interesting brand-centered images, proving (in case you're still wondering how well advertising works) just how deeply brands are …
Sony Patents New And Improved Mind Control Device
from Reuters: If you think video games are engrossing now, just wait: PlayStation maker Sony Corp. has been granted a patent for beaming sensory information directly into the brain. The technique could one day be used to create videogames in which you can smell, taste, and touch, or to help people who are blind or deaf. The U.S. patent, granted to Sony researcher Thomas Dawson, describes a technique for aiming …
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