Ariel Waldman has a problem with Twitter. The reality of Twitter is that they refuse to warn and/or ban people who use their service to “abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate other Twitter users” (to quote their forth line item on their TOS page). What does this mean? In short, anyone can use Twitter to consistently harass you and ruin search results for your identity and Twitter won’t execute any means …
KFC Sticks A Dollar Bill In The Lettuce
From The Consumerist comes this story of a dollar bill that appears in the lettuce of a KFC sandwich commercial: in this spot: It's not exactly subliminal advertising, but really, who has the inclination to do something like this? Is anybody photoshopping tits in the ice cubes, too? Have you ever done anything like this at your agency? …
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No Money? Travel Anyway.
Don't let the economy quash your vacation plans. That's the message coming from several destinations, as consumers face inflationary prices at every turn. Stuart Elliott of The New York Times points to Las Vegas, Panama City Beach, Orlando and other cities that are stepping off their brand messaging platforms in favor of price promotions. “ ‘What happens here stays here’ is being given a rest,” said Rob Dondero, …
Nike Goes Home
Ad Age credits George Parker's Adscam with the scoop. One of my many talented spies around the world informs me that the "frat boys" at CP+B just lost their piece of Nike. Seems that the folks at Beaverton were none too happy with the CP+B Boulder outpost. Maybe the dudes spent too much time boarding and biking and not enough time doing Weiden quality work. Or this: Nike's account somewhere other than W+K just …
Another Contextual Advertising Blunder (This Time In Print)
[faux New Yorker cartoon via Copyranter on Animal] …
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Way Way Beyond Web Whatever Point 0
Naked's Will Collin on media neutrality and the future of the agency business: The willingness to embrace any and every channel without bias is the only guarantee that your agency will be as relevant to the communications landscape of 20 years’ time as it is to today’s. Objectivity is future-proof. …
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Fast, We Need A Strategy
Richard Huntington writes clean sentences and places them on his site, Adliterate, for our enjoyment. The business world has little time for the desperately bright, painfully academic, socially inept and ponderous planner. Indeed, in our time squeezed environment it is tough to make the case for strategy at all. See what I mean? …
Wireless Leashes All the Rage
The other day we looked at the digital dive from an economic angle. In his latest column for Talent Zoo, Danny G. looks at the offline crowd through a different lens. I recently became acquainted with a new couple. They’re upscale, college-educated folks, both in their early 40’s. She’s a nurse and he’s a home remodeler. Successful folks by any measure. Except for one major, tragic flaw: They’re not wired. We need to …
