12th May '08Today's Top Blog Posts on Advertising and Branding
1. Seriously, naked ladies are perfect for this!
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Here’s a new ad from Cabana Cachaçam aka “the national spirit of Brazil.” There are two more after the jump (one of which is even more NSFW). A poor excuse to show naked women, you say? Not so, replies the young gent…
2. Goodyear can make women better drivers
In the 2000s, we have terrorism. In the ’90s, we had gangsta rap. In the ’80s, we had AIDS. And in the ’70s, the thing that scared us the most was . women drivers. This ridiculous ad premiered during the first-ever M…
3. Community Choice A4UAwards Selection…
The short list is out for the A4UAwards Community Choice and there are a couple of interesting ones that stuck out for me. You can see the full list on the a4uawards site.Publisher (affiliate) of 2008• Click Angel•…
4. Thanks To My Reader for Nominating!
The A4UAwards Community Awards shortlist has been announced today and the full list is on the official site. Phone calls they said… we’re making calls they said. Did my phone ring? Did I check 1471 a few times? Did…
5. A4U Awards Votes Are In, Thanks For The Nomination Guys!
Well, once again I’m delighted to have been put on the shortlist for the Affiliate Blog award at the 2008 Affiliate Marketing Awards.It’s really fantastic to have had people pay me the huge compliment of giving this…
6. a4u Awards 2008 - shortlist now published, make your final vote!
The first round of results are in for this year’s annual Affiliate Marketing Awards that will take place on the 5th June 2008 in London.These are the votes that were cast by A4U Forum members and I’m delighted to be…
7. Copywriter totally sucks, gets decent job
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Seattle agency Creature has hired 35-year-old copywriter Yutaka Tsujino, formerly of Crispin Porter + Bogusky, based almost solely on the consensus opinion that the guy completely sucks. Jim Haven, co-founder and…
8. NOLAF. If a chimp had friends … and a computer.
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Sometimes, okay most times, my job is to find stuff and then, well, pass stuff along. So here’s me doing that: NOLAF, that James found. Does it measure up to the standard of usable, value-add websites that don’t…
9. Site Helps You Remember What Happened in Vegas Adrants
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Deep Focus just launched a promotional site for the Cameron Diaz/Ashton Kutcher movie, What Happens in Vegas.
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10. Stay thirsty my friends.
Happy post-Cinco. This is an older campaign but one I just discovered yesterday. Dos Equis created The World’s Most Interesting Man. Owing a nod perhaps to the W+K Old Spice work, this one does the camp thing…
11. Trademark Triggers You Will Go On My First Whistle!
Despite the promise of a switch off of trademark triggers on May 5th, Google let everyone enjoy the bank holiday (and bask in the glow of Southampton’s last day survival) before unleashing it’s new brand name…
12. Next - do you allow affiliates to brand name bid or not?
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As most of you are probably aware today marks the day that Google implements it’s new trademark policy on AdWords. Read all about it here. Having a quick browse around the web today I haven’t really seen any…
13. HP & Guerilla Marketing Beyond Madison Avenue
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In one of the coolest guerilla marketing campaigns I have seen in awhile, HP and Publicis (in Malaysia) have created giant fake black holes to give the appearance that you are walking towards a…
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14. Jargon and marketing maturity: Church of the Customer Blog
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There’s an inverse relationship between a company’s ability to communicate well and its public use of jargon.
Facebook is a good example. Smart people run the company, but their communication with the world is usually…
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15. Branding & Marketing Writing tips for Marketing and Branding - from SOBCon
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I was at SOBCon ‘08 in Chicago this weekend and have met some amazing people!Decided I couldn’t avoid Twitter anymore. I’m at http://twitter.com/cmcbrown The session Saturday was so packed full of ideas that…
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