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Angelina Jolie’s Face Spurs Massive Internet Dialogue
8:31AM Richard Rushfield | 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 »
Flotsam & Jetsam
American Apparel My Butt
3:12AM Hamilton Nolan | American Apparel ads raise unimportant questions: Can they get banned in the UK again, on purpose? Are buttocks economically superior to c—ksuckers? And why are these fishnetty things everywhere now? Don’t neglect your local sex shop. [Copyranter. Click to enlarge]
Flotsam & Jetsam
Ad Is Just Like, You Know You Want It
5:41AM Hamilton Nolan | You have to kind of respect a TV ad that just acknowledges, “Yea, this whole form of thinly veiled commercialised communication is basically a big fraudulent song-and-dance routine. So? Buy these f–king chips.” [via Adfreak]
Flotsam & Jetsam
Tampax Happy To Have Serena In Their Bloody Commercials
6:13PM Andrew Belonsky | Remember how Serena Williams went crazy and threatened to make a line judge choke on her balls and everyone was outraged by this American idol’s unladylike behaviour? Well, none of that matters to Tampax, which considers Williams a menstruating hero. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Host Your Own Awful Party For Windows 7
4:41AM Ryan Tate | Microsoft’s next operating system, Windows 7, is available to the public October 22. So why not host an awkward launch party for a perfectly diverse group of your friends? Microsoft made an unbearable video tutorial to get you going. More »
Online
James Dean’s Premature Death Validated
4:39AM Hamilton Nolan | What if James Dean had lived a long, full life? He would have done cliché celebrity shit like parading African babies before cameras, and finally become a spokesman for a financial services company. Dying young has its benefits. [via Adfreak]
Flotsam & Jetsam
Is Men’s Body Wash Actually Way Gay?
2:22AM Hamilton Nolan | Are you one of the millions of men who have been suckered into purchasing “body wash” with the tacit assurance that said product will get you mad ladies and does not make you totally gay? You’ve been had. More »
If You Like Modern Liberalism, You’ll Love Our Relaxed Boot Cut
4:42AM Hamilton Nolan | This Levi’s full-page tribute to Teddy Kennedy in the weekend NYT was a little weird, now that you mention it. What’s the brand connection? This: Teddy Kennedy always believed Walt Whitman was gay. Levi’s®. Click to enlarge. [Copyranter]
Big Screen
Who To Blame When Your Terrible Movie Flops? Twitter.
2:56AM Ryan Tate | Hollywood studios failed to hoodwink the moviegoing public into seeing recent stinkers like G.I. Joe and Brüno. But don’t blame overpaid movie executives. Blame Twitter! The microblogging startup is apparently breaking the entire celebrity-industrial complex over its knee like particleboard. More »
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