Tag Archives: marketing

Robot Telemarketer: I’m Not A Robot

Via TIME Magazine: The phone call came from a charming woman with a bright, engaging voice to the cell phone of a TIME Washington Bureau Chief Michael Scherer. She wanted to offer a deal on health insurance, but something was fishy. When Scherer asked point blank if she was a real person, or a computer-operated robot voice, she replied enthusiastically …

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This Is An Ad For Something

The frame seen below tells you that this is not office-friendly. (Tipped by JMG reader Tony)

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This Is An Ad For Something

6.5M views in 48 hours. (Tipped by JMG reader Ray)

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This Is An Ad For Something

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This Is An Ad For HIV Testing

Probably not safe for the office. (Tipped by JMG reader Homer)

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Branding Fail

The Independent reports: As sending positive brand signals go, naming your mascot Fukuppy is probably a step in the wrong direction. Indeed, it would seem this refrigerator company have had their very own fukuppy with the unfortunate christening of this cartoon egg. Social media users seized on the winged ovum’s name to ridicule Fukushima Industries’ mascot, with initial reports linking …

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Models Promote Obamacare In Colorado

Details.

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Chipotle Parody

A commercial comes first. Here’s the original. (Tipped by JMG reader Jeff)

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Amazing New Chipotle Ad

No, really. It’s gorgeous. And their name scarcely appears. (Via Gawker)

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Seen In Texas

A marketing company in Waco, Texas wanted to see how realistic their truck decals can be, so an employee volunteered to be tied up for the above image.  Reactions, as you can imagine, have not been been positive.   KWTX said it asked viewers what they thought of Kolb’s marketing stunt, and the responses the station received were almost all negative …

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LAUNCHED: “Marry Me In Minneapolis”

Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, seen above officiating at Minnesota’s first same-sex wedding, is in Chicago today to launch “Marry Me In Minneapolis,” a campaign that invites Illinoisans to visit his city for their gay marriages. Rybak’s message is that Chicagoans no longer have to make a long and expensive trip to the coasts to get married, just the six-hour drive …

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Free Hugs

[Disclaimer: Hugs not actually free.] Source.

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Avicii – Wake Me Up

Dance music meets apparel branding. Via the press materials: Today, two-time Grammy-nominated superstar, Avicii and Denim & Supply Ralph Lauren will release the first co-produced official music video for “Wake Me Up,” the first single from Avicii’s September 17th album, TRUE (PRMD/Island Records). The video was directed by celebrated American photographer Mark Seliger, and merges the hallmarks of Avicii’s driving …

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Hello Flo

This is Ad Week‘s ad of the day. Feminine-hygiene products have come along way from being squeamish even just about the V-word. This hilariously written long-form spot for Hello Flo, a tampon subscription service, is full of great lines and comic visuals, as it tells the amusing story of a pre-teen girl who’s the first to get her period at …

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Magically Gaylicious Flap Continues

“Your children’s breakfast cereal is now gay. Just so you know. Your children’s breakfast cereal is now gay. I don’t think that’s a sentence anybody not a comedy writer ever imagined penning. What’s next? Snap, Crackle, and Poppers?” – Conservative pundit Rod Dreher.  Gotta admit, I totally LOL’d.

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Stockholm Pride Invites Gay Russians

Last year a Russian court banned pride events in Moscow for the next 100 years. Via email from Visit Sweden: Stockholm Pride invites all Russians to instead # GOWEST and celebrate Pride in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.  On the campaign page you can compose your tweet-invite that’s automatically translated into Russian. In addition, your location for this particular tweet …

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Redbox Aims At Starbucks

Coinstar, the parent company of those ubiquitous Redbox DVD vending machines, wants to have the same effect on Starbucks that it did on Blockbuster. Redding expects each machine to serve as many as 28 coffees and lattes a day, with a simple cup fetching $1 to $1.50 and specialty drinks $1.50 to $2. At those prices—up to $1.50 less than …

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Gays Do More Everything

According to the NYC-based marketing firm Target 10, gay folks eat out, visit bars, and attend concerts more often than straight folks do. That seems possible, but I’m surprised at their claim that only 40% of gay folks have been to a bar or club in the last year.  More stats at the link.

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Bad Vibes: City Cockblocks Giveaway

Gothamist reports that the mayor’s office shut down yesterday’s vibrator giveaway by Trojan. They were cockblocked! The masses of men and women left unsatisfied after the Bloomberg Administration’s Great Free Vibrator Cockblocking of 2012 are still unfulfilled—but Trojan says they’re trying to get their toy giveaway buzzing again. And City Hall sounds like they are trying to do everything they …

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The Coming Issue Of Newsweek

What’s with this surge in phallic imagery? Source.

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