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People
Cosmetics Company Uses Kristin Davis And Then Kicks Her Out
4:18AM Brian Moylan | Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories, hired Sex and the City’s Kristin Davis to help their image. Because she worked with the disputed company, she got the boot from human rights group Oxfam International. Now Ahava is giving her the heave-ho too! More »
Music
Music Industry In Death Throes Turns To State Lottery For Help
8:31AM Richard Rushfield | The music industry is now only one step shy of launching a line of Moby-branded Night Train bottles. Warners Bros. Records and the California Lottery are producing a line of musician-branded scratch cards. More »
Music
1:26AM Ryan Tate | Here’s the cover to Bob Dylan’s forthcoming Christmas album. Proceeds go to charity; as Vulture notes, this lends hope the project won’t be commercially corrupted and critically panned. We still wish the sleigh driver had a harmonica holder or something. After all, a Dylan flourish would make the disc all the more gift-able!
Bob Dylan’s Christmas Idyll
1:26AM Ryan Tate | Here’s the cover to Bob Dylan’s forthcoming Christmas album. Proceeds go to charity; as Vulture notes, this lends hope the project won’t be commercially corrupted and critically panned. We still wish the sleigh driver had a harmonica holder or something. After all, a Dylan flourish would make the disc all the more gift-able!
Flotsam & Jetsam
Dow Jones Industrial Average Reportedly For Sale
7:03AM Ryan Tate | Goldman Sachs is in the process of selling the Dow Jones Industrial Average on behalf of News Corporation, John Carney at Business Insider reports. But is it really worth much? More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Australian For ‘Beer Byproduct-Flavour’
6:50AM Hamilton Nolan | Yeasty Australiacentric ‘food’ product Vegemite needs a name for its new flavour. How about ‘Nastymite’? [Adfreak] More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Advertising Of The Future To Enslave The White Man
12:00AM Hamilton Nolan | What if our corporate overlords could measure precisely how one single city block — yours — would respond to their advertisements for Pringles™ brand astronaut potatoes, to offer a delicious example? They would use this power for racism, obviously. More »
Online
GQ Decides This ‘Internet’ Not A Fad, Obtains ‘Website’
4:18AM Ryan Tate | Condé Nast editors used to be too fancy to bother with the grubby Web; they dumped all their content onto online junkyards. Greed and petty jealousy, though, have turned them into true believers, and they want their “websites” now, please. More »
Online
Perez Hilton’s New Site To Showcase His Sensitive, Thoughtful Side
4:49AM Ryan Tate | Perez Hilton is launching a new website, his advertising agent reports, to “focus on longer-form, more advertiser-friendly content.” Meaning, presumably, that the celebrity gossip can finally unleash his fearsome intellect. More »
Online
The Sultriest Wall Street Journal Headcut Ever
2:52AM Ryan Tate | The Wall Street Journal is fronting its new “Speakeasy” website with perhaps the sultriest headcut it has ever run, a stipple portrait of hotshot young reporter Rebecca Dana. That’s one way to succeed in blogging! More »
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