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Stealth Marketing Triple Crown: Win, Place(ment), and Show
As a tribute to the upcoming Belmont Stakes – and the honest-to-God chance we could see the first Triple Crown thoroughbred since Affirmed in 1978 (shine on, California Chrome!) – the hardtracking staff is dividing this madcap review into horse … Continue reading
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Tagged 24: Live Another Day, Advertising Age, Affirmed, American Idol, AT&T, Belmont Stakes, Ben Silverman, branded entertainment, California Chrome, Dunder Mifflin, Electus, Falling Water, Fox, Frank Lloyd Wright, GM, Harley-Davidson, Internet Week, Jack Bauer Project, Jill Abramson, Madison & Vine, Mark-Hans Richer, Meredith Kopit Levien, Mitch Kanner, native advertising, NBC Entertainment, New York Times, OMMA Native, Oprah Winfrey Show, Pontiac, Scott Donaton, Sneak ADtack, Staples, The Office, Top 10 Product Placements of the Last 10 Years, Triple Crown, Two Degrees Ventures
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Chrysler Drives Stealth Marketing ’24’/7
Jack is back! Version 6.0 of Fox’s fabulously successful series 24 premiered on Monday, and you can count on uber-sponsor Chrysler Motors to rev its ad engine in any number of ways throughout the season. From MediaPost . . . Read … Continue reading
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Tagged #24LAD, 24: Live Another Day, Air and Space Museum, Andy Love, Chrysler 200, Fox, Intrepid, Jack Bauer, Kiefer Sutherland, MediaPost, Sneak ADtack
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Aereo Dynamics Coming To Boston
Aereo, the ant(enna) farm that lets viewers access broadcast networks on the Internet for a monthly fee, is expanding into Boston, but not without opposition. Via The Verge (tip o’ the pixel to Poynter): Aereo files suit against CBS to head … Continue reading
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Tagged Aereo, ant(enna) farm, Boston, CBS, Fox, NBC, Poynter, The Verge
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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Iowa Ad-O-Rama Edition)
And the hit jobs just keep on comin’ in the Hawkeye State’s GOP presidential slapfight. • Rick Perry goes cartoon in his latest Iowa TV spot. Got that? “The fox guarding the henhouse is like asking a Congressman to … Continue reading
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Tagged Fox, I See an America, Iowa, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Newtered, Restore Our Future, Rick Perry, South Carolina
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A World’s Serious (2011 Edition)
Well that was one for the ages, no? The hardworking staff will leave the play-by-play of the St. Louis Cardinals’ knee-buckling victory in Game 6 of the World Series to others and go straight to the color commentary: • Twice Fox … Continue reading
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Tagged A World's Serious, AP, Fox, Jack Buck, Joe Buck, Mike Fitzpatrick, Ring Lardner, St. Louis Cardinals, Texas Rangers
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News Corp(se) Dodge o’ the Day®
It’s a tie! Winner #1: Bret Stephens in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal: News of the World vs. WikiLeaks Only one placed at risk ‘the lives of countless innocent individuals.’ How does this year’s phone hacking scandal at the now-defunct British tabloid … Continue reading
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Tagged Bret Stephens, Fox, Murdoch Empire, News of the World, Robert L. Pollock, The Simpsons, Wall Street Journal, WikiLeaks
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Comcast On Demand Just Got More Demanding
The Global Worldwide Headquarters was all abuzz when the hardworking staff learned that Comcast had expanded its On Demand roster to include ABC’s Castle along with Fox’s Bones and The Chicago Code (and maybe even more – check with the … Continue reading
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Tagged ABC, bait-and-can't-switch, Bones, Castle, Comcast, Fox, longer than a Charlie Sheen marriage, On Demand, The Chicago Code
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After Disastrous Super Bowl Ads, Groupon Tries To Regroup
From the New York Times: Groupon is ending a campaign that made its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, days after making changes in response to considerable criticism of the ads. The decision is a major setback for Groupon, the purveyor … Continue reading
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Tagged Fox, Groupon, New York Times, Snickers kiss, Super Bowl, Super Bowl XLV, Tibet, Timothy Hutton
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Dead Blogging The Super Bowl Spots
Some overall observations about the ads on Fox’s Super Bowl LXV broadcast: • If you picked Branded Projectiles Hitting People for your drinking game, you were kneewalking by 3:44 of the first quarter (three to the head, one to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Audi, Bud Light, Budweiser, Cadillac, Chevy Cruze, E*Trade, Eminem, Fox, GoDaddy, Homeaway, House, Kim Kardashian, Lipton Brisk, Release the Hounds, Skechers, Stella Artois, Super Bowl ads
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Ad ‘No’ the Day™
Apparently, NBC and Fox think this Lane Bryant spot is too hot to air: But this is okay to air: Discuss among yourselves.