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Future of Advertising?

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George Masters, a high-school teacher and iPod fan, created an ad for the iPod that may signal the future of advertising (big words indeed). From Wired Magazine’s article about this ad:

To some experts, Masters’ ad heralds the future of advertising. Homemade ads will play a big part in marketing, just like blogging is shaking up the news.

On the right nav of the article you can launch the ad itself. I advise you doing so because, well, its just pretty damn cool.

Thanks Chuck.

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Frontline Show to Watch on 11/9

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Hurry up and watch this upcoming Frontline on PBS about how “the multibillion-dollar ‘persuasion industries’ of advertising and public relations and how marketers have developed new ways of integrating their messages deeper into the fabric of our lives.” It sounds interesting, compelling, slightly scary and yes, I work at a marketing company so there will be a serving of guilt along with this program for me at least.

I’m saying “hurry up and watch” because who knows how much longer PBS will survive in this “New America.” For illustration, here is part of a post that I got on BoingBoing from someone named Molly:

I got a very clear picture of his base constituency when having a discussion over lunch with some co-workers about our favorite children’s shows. I was commenting on how much I liked Sesame Street, and one woman (a very vocal Christian conservative) said, “Oooh.. Sesame Street is too tolerant for me”. To my horror, several other women nodded their heads in agreement. I guess I didn’t even think there was such a thing as too tolerant.

Yikes.

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Magic Hat #9 Bottle Caps

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I’ve been watching a lot of sports on TV this past week: 3 Yankee games and counting and the J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets this afternoon. Sports plus TV equals Jeff drinking beer and the latest sixer I bought was Magic Hat #9, a terrific microbrew out of the Green Mountain State of Vermont. The beer is good, the web site is pretty nifty and the bottle caps have some very amusing messages on them. Here are the top 3 that I’ve read:

3) Take a Day to roll in the Hay

2) Don’t Climb a Ladder with a Full Bladder

1) To conceal a Fart is an age-old Art

I wonder if “He who Smelt it Dealt it” is on a beer that I have not yet opened…

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Video Game commercials

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If you’ve been pining away to see a replay of a video game commercial from the last few years, this fan site has them. I mean it, they have over 1600 video game commercials from across the globe. As the site says, “almost 90% of these commercials come from Japan and look very very very ODD.” I 100% agree. I love it! So far, my favorite is the Sega Worldcup 98 clip (found in chapter 1) but then again, I need to go to bed and I’ve only watched a few.

I found a link to these commercials on the f.u.b.a.r. forums. When you find a funny video game clip, post a comment and let me. Happy viewing!

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Jessie's New Boss: Steven King

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This is a funny little story about Jessie’s new uber-boss:

THE SKELETON’S IN STEVE KING’S CLOSET – Don’t expect newly anointed Zenith Optimedia chief Steve King to relocate the media buying giant’s worldwide headquarters to New York any time soon. In keeping with Zenith’s roots, the company will remain in London. But the Riff can’t help wondering if the reason has more to do with a horrible experience King had while working for Zenith in New York, than it does with any other real estate issues. It seems that during the mid-1990s when King served as COO of Zenith North America and was working in its Houston Street offices in Lower Manhattan, he would mistakenly receive mail from another Steve King. “Penguin Books, was in the same building, and at the time they were publishing some of Stephen King’s books,” recalls Zenith’s King. “Most of my mail when I was general manager and COO of Zenith came from strange people sending in the weirdest letters, like, ‘Would you like me to tell you my story about how I butchered my husband and have him buried in my basement?”

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“Really” Funny Commercials

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If you haven’t gotten this link yet from a friend then:

a) your friends don’t like you

b) you are missing out big time.

The page contains links to copies of every Real Men of Genius and Real American Heroes Bud Lite commercial that has aired on TV and radio. You try NOT to laugh but you can’t, they are just too damn funny! If you are having a bad day, just listen to “Mr. Deli Meat Slicer” – – – who cuts the cheese? HE DOES!