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How Poor Creative Destroys Great Product.
Today I found out about Knocking Live Video , an app that enables users to "knock" on other phones with the app and share live video in real-time. The first 50,000 downloads are free, so I snapped that bad-boy up before Pointy Heads could impose a payment wall. How I found out about it : ...
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more.madame: The Lovechild of Chanel and Le Figaro
With a few helpful tailor's tugs from agency Mediaedge:cia, Chanel Joaillerie (Jewelry) and Figaro Group -- parent company of French publication Le Figaro and related subsidiaries -- have partnered to conceive more.madame . Running from November 21 to December 19, it's toted as the first-ever ...
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Two Things.
Thing 1: Indulgent Bob Knorpp invited me onto The BeanCast last night with Kelly Eidson, Joe Jaffe and Ian Schafer. The ep's called " The Cow Goes, Moo !" and we talk Black Friday, Wal-Mart, pay-per-Tweet and crowdsourcing, among other stizzy-stuff. I warn you: there's more than one ...
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Elf Yourself Dancing Flashmob.
Elf Yourself Dancing Flashmob.
liveanduncensored.com — Yeah, they went there . This marks year 4 that Office Max has whipped out its suite... of festive dancing bodies, waiting for heads. Elf Yourself . And while the general idea of flashmobs makes me cringe, the memory of disco elves -- one of last ... (more) Elf Yourself Dancing Flashmob.
AdVerve Episode 7: The Thanksgiving show - iGod, Naughty Words and the Poetry of Tila Tequila
Download the show directly here . Or subscribe via iTunes: This week's AdVerve is an icon-heavy melange featuring social networks, Oprah, and ... yes, an angry poem by Tila Tequila. ( LISTEN TO TILA GET ALL NSFW N’ SHIT!) First, we kick this week's episode off with an email from Chris , a ...
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Levi's: Love, Lust and Storytelling
In April I got to see an ad:tech talk given by Senior Director Michael Perman of Levi's. It was called " The Art of Storytelling ," something at which Levi's particularly excels. Anyway, I was doing my usual trawl of exceptional William Shatner videos * the other day when I came across treasure: ...
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Your Domestic Flights Hurt Bears.
This stressful piece of web cinema is brought to you by Plane Stupid , with help from agency Mother and production firm Rattling Stick. The argument: every passenger on a given European flight is responsible for the addition of 400kg of greenhouse gases -- the weight of an adult polar ...
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There's Too Much Vitriole in Here.
With that in mind, I give you a Bondi Beach flashmob, enthusiastically led by drag queen extraordinaire Joyce Maynge . You got Spice Girls! You got Single Ladies! You got Whitney! If the video feels sleepy and half-hearted, all the better; so too is this effort to seem sunnier. (I watched a ...
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AOL's New Logo(s)
Suggested slogans: On the outside of LOLcat culture , looking in. Why CEOs should text less and/or not take input from their 11-year-old daughters, or nieces, or their friends. How to show your age. Ftl. Read the straight-faced PR .
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Things You Don't Have to Explain to Friends
Me : I overpee. Chelsi : I know.
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"Et si Noël durait plus qu'un Noël ?"
"What if Christmas lasted longer than a Christmas?" This spot for Orange , where a sweltering city breaks out its secret snowball reserves to extend holiday spirit beyond its normal shelf life, is brimming with so much warmth and good cheer that you'd never guess parent company France ...
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When Did Clean Become So Preachy?
I've always been a fan of Method's pure approach to household care, but this " Shiny Suds " ad makes people against dirty sound suspiciously like ... Maybe that's too strong of a comparison. The ad's a highly emotional plea for the passing of the Household Product Labeling Act . This would ...
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By the Way, AdVerve's Fixed.
The squirrels that chewed through the servers’ wires have summarily been dispatched and all AdVerve shows are available again. Download you some: 
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Spread Your Seed, and the Gospel of Coke.
That's all I have to say about that .
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I Know How Silly This is Gonna Sound, But...
I think that, with the ease of data absorption gifted to us by YouTube, we should all spend at least a little bit of time learning about string theory . Okay, you can believe in it or not, but consider at least that what we consider to be impossible significantly narrows our own personal ...
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Themed Blogs About Icky People.
Here's a collection of human archives I've seen around the internets. Even if it's not on this list, I can almost guarantee there's a site out there, waiting for a a saucy potshot of you for public amusement. The internet is creepy like that: it feeds collectors' compulsions. Add a dash of ...
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The Fear™, and Life's Terrible Truth(s)
Highly Successful Ridiculously Wise Investor : So you brought your life and your business to a whole 'nother country, where the culture and the language are different from everything you know and understand. Weren't you scared? Me: Yeah, but I'm still scared. I'm scared every day. I am ...
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AdVerve Episode 6: The French Connection
Fred . We interview Frédéric-Gérard Leveque  for a unique take on the ad scene in Paris and the state of agencies in general. One point that comes to mind after hearing Fred is that regardless of the solutions he talks about, you realize the problems facing ad agencies in France are ...
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IKEA Turns Facebook Tagging into Brand Advocacy
Tag yourself on a $30 lamp. What do you win? The lamp. What's IKEA win? Impressions -- and the likelihood of more participation -- across your Facebook network. (Via VOTW .)
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Space: An Armchair Viewer's Next Frontier
With this project for the Regza SV, Grey London aspired to bring Toshiba's "Leading innovation" tagline to the next level: stratospheric. This is an amazing thing to watch, in part because it's something we've never seen before, but also because it represents the penetration of something ...
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