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Tag Archives: Sneak ADtack
The Secrets Life Of Marketers
Must-read cover piece in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, detailing the means and methods marketers exercise to extract consumer information that nails you to the selling post: How Companies Learn Your Secrets Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for … Continue reading
Disgracebook: Facebook Gets It Dead Wrong
Apparently your Facebook Timeline doesn’t end when your time on earth does. Saturday’s Boston Herald front page: From the Herald report: Two of [Michael Marshalsea’s] daughters told the Herald they were shocked and dismayed that a ghoulish imposter took over their … Continue reading
Invasion Of The Data Snatchers (Google Edition)
Yesterday it was Twitter engaging in misAPPropriation of smartphone users’ address book data. Now it’s Google end-running privacy settings to monitor its search engine users. From Friday’s Wall Street Journal: Google’s iPhone Tracking Web Giant, Others Bypassed Apple Browser Settings for Guarding Privacy … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple Inc., Google, iPhone, Julia Angwin, misAPPropriation, Sneak ADtack, Twitter, Wall Street Journal
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Product Placements Face Reality (Shows)
Reality check, via Media Dynamics: The top 10 primetime shows for product placement activity on broadcast TV networks were all in the reality genre, according to Nielsen. Measuring 11 months in 2011, Nielsen found that Fox’s American Idol led the list with 577 … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazing Race, American Idol, Media Dynamics, Sneak ADtack, The Biggest Loser, The Celebrity Apprentice
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Twitter’s MisAPPropriation Of Your Private Data
The Los Angeles Times gets this week’s Long Subhed Award (pat. pending) for this piece (via Politico’s Playbook): Smartphone apps dial up privacy worries Undisclosed gathering of smartphone users’ address book data by Twitter and other social networking companies brings heightened scrutiny by … Continue reading
Ford’s SI Swimsuit Supermuddle
Sports Illustrated’s annual swimsuit edition always generates supermodel sparks, but this year’s offering features a extra wrinkle (Quick – get me Photoshop!). From Adweek’s Adfreak blog: Ford Sneaks a Fake Swimsuit Model Into ‘Sports Illustrated’ Dalena Henriques may not be real, but she loves … Continue reading
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Tagged Adfreak, Adweek, Dalena Henriques, Ford Mustang, Sneak ADtack, Sports Illustrated, supermuddle, swimsuit edition
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I’m (Selling) With The Band
From the Sneak ADtack! Badvertising desk: Music videos have long been a sandbox for product placement, but apparently the practice is turning into product disgracement. Exhibit A via MediaPost’s Engage:GenY blog, regarding fun’s “We Are Young” video: The song used during the … Continue reading
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Tagged Chevy Sonic, Engage:GenY, fun, MediaPost, music videos, Sneak ADtack, stealth marketers, Super Bowl ad, We Are Young, Windows
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Super Sonic Sell
Super Bowl ads may never die, but the buzz around them goes down like the Hindenburg as soon as the game ends, something MediaPost’s VidBlog notes: Remember that football game that was played just five days ago? How about the ads in the game? … Continue reading
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Tagged Chevy Sonic, Engage:GenY, MediaPost, OK Go, Sneak ADtack, Super Bowl, VidBlog
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TV Guide: “IS TV $ELLING OUT?”
Right question, wrong verb tense. Does any rational person really believe that the TV industry has not sold out to product placement? Regardless, TV Guide asks the (rhetorical) question in a current piece that provides this answer: Product placement isn’t new — it’s been … Continue reading
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Tagged Chuck, corn is off the cob, CW, Hawaii Five-0, Kia, Nikita, Product placement, Sneak ADtack, Subway, TV Guide
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