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Sep30
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When it comes to guerilla advertising, the Europeans seem to be so much better at it than we are here in America. Smack in the middle of Victoria trains station in London is this sculpture of a "Take your own photo booth." Sticking out of it is a twenty foot long human figure. It's part of an ad campaign for a new TV show that's about to air. What the relevance is... I have no idea, but I'm sure it all makes sense when you see the campaign. 
. I don't think he knows either!
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Sep30
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Following on from my post of yesterday about Rush "Chicken Hawk" Limbaugh and his comments about "phony soldiers." It would seem that Mark Udall (D-CO) will be introducing a resolution in the House of Representatives on Monday condemning Rush Limbaugh...
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Sep29
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Conservative radio host blow hard Rush Limbaugh may have just bitten off more than he can chew when he smeared U.S. troops who support a withdrawal policy in Iraq, calling them “phony soldiers.” Criticism from Democrats soon followed. VoteVets.org’s Jon...
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Sep28
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Further proof that the telecom's are engaged in dubious business practices with today's news that after facing criticism for blocking content on its network, Verizon Wireless yesterday reversed its decision to bar an abortion-rights group from sending text messages to...
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Sep27
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I Live in Boise, Idaho, which is a beautiful state with some of the most incredible wilderness in the USA. Boise is a college town with a lot going on. But when it comes to politics, I have to admit a certain...
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Sep26
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I've never been able to connect the "Good Old Boy - Super Macho" image of NASCAR with the fact that it's main sponsor has always been a so-called beer that's as close to real beer as their racing cars are to...
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Boy, what with all the hoopla about the launch of "Halo 3," it would seem that the joys of opening the long-awaited product are turning sour quickly for some buyers of the $75 limited-edition version, who are finding that the discs...
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It will be interesting to see how the battle for FaceBook transpires over the next few weeks. Right now Microsoft is in discussions about acquiring a 5% stake in the company, which has a valuation of about $10 billion. Standing...
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Sep25
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It was interesting to read Christine Huang's Post over on PSFK about her recent meeting with long-time entrepreneur Nolan Bushnell, the founder of video game giant Atari and the world's worse pizza joint for kids Chuck E. Cheese. His most...
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Sep23
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"Yahoo! News report that the cherished dinner hour void of telemarketers could vanish next year for millions of people when phone numbers begin dropping off the national/United States (U.S.)'s Do Not Call list. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which oversees...
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Sep21
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If you need proof that advertising works, but not always in the ways you expect, the news yesterday that US Senate has voted to condemn an advertisement attacking the country's top commander in Iraq as he gave key testimony on...
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Sep20
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In case you were wondering...It's now official: Sergey Brin and Larry Page, co-founders of Google make more money than God. Well, not exactly, but today, Forbes published its list of the richest people in the U.S. The two Google co-founders...
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Why am I not surprised to read in a new study from Pete Blackshaw and Mac Kalehoff at Nielsen Buzzmetrics that most people think advertising, and the people who work in it, are a bunch of charlatans? The study charted popular associations...
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Sep19
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Steve "I am God" Jobs is on his iPhone roadshow through Europe. Yesterday, it was London to announce a Nov. 9 launch date with O2 as the exclusive carrier in the UK. Today, he stopped by Berlin to let all of...
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Sep18
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Adnan Klaric, of Zenica, Bosnia, is now going through a divorce after finding out that the online soul mate with whom he'd been swapping stories of troubled marriages was in fact his wife. "I was so happy to have found...
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Pop star Britney Spears has been dropped by her management company, one month after employing their services. Los Angeles-based "The Firm" said: "We have terminated our professional relationship with Britney Spears. "We believe she is enormously talented, but current circumstances...
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With the news in today's AdAge that Andy Berndt, co-president of Ogilvy & Mather's New York office, is leavingthe agency to go to Google, where he will head up a new global unit aimed at collaborating with marketers, agencies and...
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Sep17
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The press in Britain are having a field day with the news that the parents of Madeleine McCann have send to the US for help against evidence of sniffer dogs.” Gerry and Kate McCann have consulted lawyers working on behalf of Eugene...
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The TV networks must have prayed to the rain gods or something, 'cos this weekend their prayers were answered. O.J. Simpson really screwed up again, and this time he might actually do some serious time in the slammer. Maybe "what...
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Sep16
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Sir Richard Branson is giving £100,000 to create a “fighting fund” to help the parents of Madeleine McCann to clear their names. A source close to Branson says: “Sir Richard wants to ensure the McCanns get access to the best...
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Sep15
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Well, I certainly seem to have opened a can of worms with my last post concerning missing Madeleine McCann and the behavior of her parents since that tragic event. My concern was whether or not the world wide publicity the...
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Sep14
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I must say, I was somewhat stunned to read in today's English newspapers that the parents of Madeleine McCann are possibly hiring some big time ex News of the World Newspaper PR guy to handle their "Media Relations." Yes I understand that...
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Apparently, according to research just carried out in Great Britain the public is becoming increasingly skeptical about companies' green claims made in ad campaigns. Four in five Britons now believe that many companies pretend to be ethical just to sell...
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Sep13
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The so-called "Britney Bomb" at MTV's Video Music Awards (where rumors have it she was "Bombed" before she went on stage, to "Bomb" all over again) certainly did no harm to the ratings for Viacom's MTV, but it was also, significantly,...
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Sep11
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For eleven years, I wrote a column for an AdWeek publication, Marketing Computers, which then became Technology Marketing. This is the column I wrote following the events of September the 11th, 2001. I thing it's worth re-reading today. Lessons Learned....
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Sep10
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So, did Britney bomb, or merely suck on lats nights MTV Awards... Hey, you can only put so much lipstick on a pig! Can you imagine someone would be so brain dead they couldn't just look in the mirror and...
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Sep 9
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I guess when reality shows are a dime a dozen and rapidly running out of steam, you have to start pushing the envelope a bit, or at least appear to be. Which is why MTV is going to be the...
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Sep 7
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Quite a few people out there in the blogosphere are saying that Steve Job's slashing the cost of the iPhone by $220, then immediately offering a credit (not cash back) of $100 to all the Apple freaks who'd stood in...
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Sep 6
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I was extremely saddened to hear the news last night that Pavarotti had died. Even though it was no surprise because the various news reports over the last few months had talked about his continuing battle with cancer, it still struck home...
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Just 'cos I know all my loyal readers can't get enough of me, you might want to check out the piece I just did for BrandWeek. It's in today's issue. Rather droll, even if I say so myself... And if...
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Sep 5
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Oh wow, just what we need, another advertising award show… Yeah I know Yawn! Except this one is quite a bit different, ‘cos it’s for ads that never ran. OK, I know that half of those English language, Brazilian ads...
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After quickly reading some of the initial reviews, it would seem that apart from its video capabilities and bigger screen, the innovation that's really going to appeal to the Apple freaks is the iPhone like interface. Known as the iPod...
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So Steve "I am God" Jobs announced the new iPod Nano this morning to the assembled acolytes at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. As usual, the crowd went berserk. I mean it was "His Holiness" Steve delivering the goods!...
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Sep 4
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Am I the only one who wonders where the hell all this money comes from to keep funding the never ending acquisitions of companies such as Google and Yahoo? This particular rant was brought on by the news today that...
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Sep 3
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OK, it's finally Labor Day. One of the few public holidays Americans enjoy. Unlike the rest of the world which seems to get six months a year off. Making many Americans terribly self righteous and smug about being such hard workers...
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Sep 1
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As usual, the TV networks just don't get it. As with the news over the last few days of NBC and Apple's fight over the price of TV shows -- first with reports that NBC split with Apple, followed by Apple's...
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