"You love to travel. We love taking you there," says Delta Airlines' Facebook page, "Our Facebook page reflects that passion." For a little while on Monday, it also reflected a passion for yams that look like giant, gross, wormy dicks.
RadioShack—the long-troubled hobbyist-turned-battery store you probably didn't know was still in business—officially went the way of the Blockbuster on Thursday, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It was 94.
Like every other instance of vaguely subversive youth culture, text slang and internet jokes are now the property of people who want to sell you breakfast cereal and pasta sauce. One sub-Reddit called /r/FellowKids is dedicated to tracking all of these nauseating attempts at internet youthfulness.
On Friday, The New York Times profiled some of the Chinese companies that have taken nonsensical branding to its postmodern conclusion, selling products under Western-inspired names like "Biemlfdlkk" and "Marisfrolg."
Brand social media accounts frequently publish offensive or otherwise ill-advised tweets, messages, or status updates. To keep readers of Gawker better appraised of offensive brand social-media activity, we're collecting all future coverage into a single, updating post, with the latest brand offense at the top.
Today I saw the following Burger King (@BurgerKing) tweet promoted into my Twitter feed.
Politico Magazine is a magazine edition of The Politico—America's worst publication—whose mission is "to pull back from the flood to understand what it's all about." The flood, in that metaphor, is supposed to be the tremendous churning hourly volume of vacuous meta- and meta-meta-political Narrative and Controversy…
After the Netherlands scored a last-minute World Cup victory over Mexico earlier today, the Netherlands' Royal Dutch Airlines—known as KLM—tweeted "Adios Amigos! #NEDMEX" accompanied by a photo of a man with a mustache and a sombrero. Smart and fun!
7-Eleven would like to charge you $.99 for a plastic straw with a mustache on it, or if you are feeling especially bad about yourself, $2.99 for one that comes with a little plastic mason jar. You too can look like you went to a well-regarded state school, shop organic, and worry vaguely about politics.
Kraft Foods Inc. announced today that it plans to change its corporate name to Mondelēz International, Inc.
One need only look to the iPad 2 feeding frenzies currently gripping China for evidence that Apple is the hottest brand on the planet. And now it's official: Research company Millward Brown puts Apple at the top of their annual 100 global brand power list, knocking Google off the throne its held for four years…
On April 6, Donald Trump learned that he had come out of nowhere to tie for second place in the GOP nomination race. The next day, he did what any bona fide contender would: He filed a trademark application for a new Trump-branded line of bath salts.
Ramona Singer, the out-to-lunch wine-swiller of the Real Housewives of New York, has partnered up with an Italian wine company to produce her own label of Pinot Grigio. Terrific! We look forward to Countess-brand "smokes" and Kelly Bensimon-brand brain acid.
Having watched Little Britain, I understand this a bit better: A study by Superbrands, a survey firm, found U.K. consumers ranked Microsoft as the top brand. Microsoft? Yes but no but yes but no but yes. Microsoft. And the much-loathed software company ranked ahead of Coca-Cola and Google. Then again, the addled…
In the midst of a nice plug for our crusading sibling Consumerist, Brandchannel's Abram Sauer makes the following observation:
