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Will Run For Mayor For Food
image courtesy of Flickr member, Laughing Squid According to Scott Beale, San Francisco artist "Chicken John" Rinaldi, wants to run for mayor, but needs to raise $5000 by 5pm this Friday, August 10th in order to be on the ballot. To meet this monetary demand from the city, Chicken scraped together enough money to run the ad above on page 19 of the August 8th edition of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In the ad, …
New Media 4 New Consumers
Looking for a client who understands the social media sphere of influence? Universal Studios has (at least) one such creature. photo courtesy of Flickr user, FPRA Cynthia Gordon, VP of Corporate Communications and TV Program Development at Universal Studios, speaking at the Florida Public Relations Association annual conference, described how Universal tapped bloggers, appropriate web sites and YouTube to market …
The Micro Persuader On Twitter-like Applications
"If Web 2.0 is like golf, then a blog is a nine iron, while a micro-blog is a putter. It's all still golf, but bloggers are starting to mix it up, and the course is changing." -Steve Rubel in Ad Age …
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Red Crosshairs
The Red Cross found itself in the middle of a branding tussle inside a Manhattan courtroom yesterday. According to The New York Times, Johnson & Johnson and the American Red Cross have shared the red cross symbol amicably for more than 100 years — Johnson & Johnson on its commercial products and the American Red Cross as a symbol of its relief efforts on foreign battlefields and in disasters like floods and …
Red Tettemer Brings New Meaning To The Word “Mocumentary”
Groundhog Crossing—a feature film written, directed and produced by Philadelphia-based advertising agency Red Tettemer on behalf of the Pennsylvania Tourism Office—is making the rounds at independent film festivals across the country, all in the name of driving state tourism. “We figured we’d never outperform that Chocolate Rain guy on YouTube, so we decided to forgo the typical ‘viral video’ and create a full length …
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Ad Creep’s New Poster Child: In-Text Advertising
So, I'm reading this article on Entrepreur about The Catalyst Code: The Strategies Behind the World's Most Dynamic Companies, a new book by Richard Schmalensee and David S. Evans, when I notice these green dotted text links... Curious, I click, only to find an advertising popup care of optSpots, not a deeper exploration of the topic like I've been trained to expect. Not good. …
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Please Direct Me To A Parking Spot
Mobile Mammoth points to an interesting new mobile media play that can help drivers in densely packed American cities find a place to park. The service is called Best Parking and it currently features a database of parking garages (and prices) in NYC, Boston and Philly. See the company's slimmed down mobile site here. …
