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more about #marketing more comments → DeadliestSin: Post Secret is amazing. That is all. #branding more » Baroness: I'll take Pepper. #angelinajolie more » BullfightsOnAcid: Here is the answer. #angelinajolie more » TedSez: "Is it Angie or a cyborg or Megan Fox's malevolent sister?" Hey, he stole the tag line from my script, The Terminizer: An Erotic Thriller. It's about... more » A Message To Rudy: So is the Gawker logo just a colorful, stylized skid mark? #branding more » OldTowneTavern: I heard they originally wanted "Got Salt?" showing Jolie in close up with the seasoning sprinkled over her top lip as she sucked a wedge of lime ---bu... more » Spirit Fingers: For those who are truly curious...click below for the trailer from Hulu. I was disappointed. But really what's Jolie done in the last eight years wor... more » OMG! Ponies!: I think it's great that they made a film adaptation of Kurlansky's cultural history tracing the use of salt through the ages. Ordinarily, a movie abo... more » Colonel Mustard: All the text on her face is pissing me off. Why does 'salt' have a 4,000-foot-high shadow all over Angie's 6,000-foot-high face? more » contradicto: I have a problem with the fact that her face is slightly off center. #angelinajolie more » Baroness: Jolie is not half as fascinating as the press and perhaps herself seems to think she is. This looks like her tenth bomb movie in a row. She's a crea... more » Mike Jahn: That's Cher, dammit. #angelinajolie more » msAnthrope: this still isn't going to get me to switch from drinking coke to drinking pepsi. #pepsi more » m4ximusprim3: "That question sounds like one a person with a learning disability would ask." This is the problem I have with the PC crowd - this sentence would be ... more » Rozelle’s Bagman: Also, the Time Warner IUD seems to persist in some units to this day. #branding more » -
#marketing
Angelina Jolie's Face Spurs Massive Internet Dialogue
Sometimes in the movie business you have to work hard for your publicity and sometimes you can just let the world know the buffet is open and start serving. More » -
#corporateamerica
Branding Appropriately Inspired
This is the greatest moment in corporate branding since the Pepsi logo was revealed to be the entire universe. [PostSecret] -
#advertising
The amazing process of creating the marketing phrase "Strawberry Flavored Juice Drink Blend."
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#scandals
Guest at Horny Sex Hotel Assumes Rape Included in Price
The tabloids love the sexy nude people parading in front of the windows of the Standard Hotel overlooking the High Line (an 8.5 on the Post Shamelessness Scale, btw). Now, the guests are trying to rape the housekeepers. Evolution.
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#marketing
Okay So Maybe Cocoa Krispies Don't Cure Swine Flu
Kindly Kellogg marketers have agreed to take the big huge banner that says "Helps your child's IMMUNITY" off boxes of Cocoa Krispies, but that doesn't mean that Cocoa Krispies is not basically superhealthy vitamins, for your family! More » -
#valleywag
A Top Googler's Ominous Radio Fight
Google is trying to break into the music business. But the squeaky-clean company is aiming at a very grungy market, as Oscar de la Renta-wearing VP Marissa Mayer discovered during a recent — ultimately contentious — radio appearance. More » -
#movies
Tucker Max Has an Explanation
Schlitz-grasping cargo short sporter Tucker Max has finally figured out why his movie, Penis in a Beer Cozy, was a financial failure.
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#brandcalledyou
Advertising Gives Up
You people always have something slick to say about our ads. You think you're so fucking smart? You figure out the ads, then. We'll just sit here while you work for free. Uh, we mean...Do the Dewmocracy™! More » -
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#bullshit
Branding Belies Bravery
Procter & Gamble is bravely helping women in Singapore overcome the cultural taboo associated with menstruation. Its marketing campaign empowers women to understand that periods are nothing to be ashamed of. That's why they named their product "Whisper." [WSJ] -
#advertising
American Apparel My Butt
American Apparel ads raise unimportant questions: Can they get banned in the UK again, on purpose? Are buttocks economically superior to cocksuckers? And why are these fishnetty things everywhere now? Don't neglect your local sex shop. [Copyranter. Click to enlarge] -
#celebrityscience
The Kingmakers of Twitter Celebrity
Pee Wee Herman had more than 40,000 followers within 24 hours of joining Twitter. An organic phenomenon? Hardly: He had a PR agency known for its celebrity "Twitter boot camp" on his side. And they taught him some secrets. More » -
#thecutespiracy
Click This Post One Million Times to Save a Baby Seal!
Sometimes you just want to grab The American Consumer about the shoulders, and shake him, and yell: "Hey, stop being such a sucker!" Because...OMG a fuzzy wuzzy baby seal! I must buy so much Dawn® brand product, or he dies. More » -
#advertising
Ad Is Just Like, You Know You Want It
You have to kind of respect a TV ad that just acknowledges, "Yea, this whole form of thinly veiled commercialized communication is basically a big fraudulent song-and-dance routine. So? Buy these fucking chips." [via Adfreak] -
#advertising
Kiehl's Encourages Your Profane Feedback
Goody, Kiehl's has put up one of those "Make Your Own" cartoon websites, which is always a bad idea, PR-wise. Weird that this was the default text though, right? [via Adfreak] -
#corporateamerica
Starbucks Bets It All on Hobo Coffee
We know you luv Starbucks. But Starbucks has problems. McDonald's is stealing its customers. Iconic stores are shutting down. Teenagers are planting bombs, workers are slowing down, and management's flirting with Communism. Today, Starbuck's salvation arrives: instant coffee. Uh, lowbrow. More » -
#publicitystunts
Martha Stewart Seeks Army of Laptop Zombies for Show
Martha Stewart is inviting bloggers with iPhones and laptops into her studio audience. If it's an odd move for the notorious control freak, it's also a recipe for free publicity — and awful television. More » -
#advertisinginhell
Ads Now Inserted Into Other Ads
The Home Shopping Network is a 24/7 ad for various useless crap. But is one single nonstop layer of ads enough, for consumers to learn about various pieces of crap? Or maybe could they put some ads in those ads? More » -
#marketing
Are All the Kids In Danger of Doing Nasty Mouth Tobacco?
America's biggest tobacco companies voluntarily stopped advertising cigarettes in magazines, because they care about you, the tobacco consumer. But hey, have you tried this new "Snus?" Try it, in your mouth! Check out the magazine ad for it! More » -
#usa
Relax: McDonald's Global Economic Domination Is Safe
There is nothing—nothing—more American than McDonald's. So would weird, less-American competitors please stop trying to overtake McDonald's dominance? Soon, Subway will have more stores than McD's. What pansy message does this send to the world? Americans eat cucumbers?!? More » -
#shutupbrooklyn
Area Yuppie Chain Stores Not Like All Those Other Chain Stores
Yuppie entrepreneurs across brownstone Brooklyn are uniting to protect their communities: Instead of competing, why not have all the cheese shops, wine shops, coffee shops, and yoga studios band together, as a chain? Keep out those dreaded other chains! More »
