Entries Tagged as 'advertising'

A Salute to 37 Signals and Their Awesome Brand Presence

March 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment

I was recently introduced to a company called 37 Signals by my boss Loic. I had heard of a couple of their products and although I do not use any, I know several people who use Basecamp and Ruby on Rails. In fact, because I’m not a coder working in a coder’s world, I find [...]

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IKEA Rocked this Facebook Campaign

March 24th, 2010 · No Comments

A while back, IKEA made this wicked awesome ad campaign that I never wrote about. I recently came across it again when doing some social network advertising research. The video says it well, but the basic gist of the campaign revolves around photo posting on Facebook. What they did was post photos of IKEA products [...]

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GEICO Careers has a pretty cool team (Video)

March 18th, 2010 · 2 Comments

GEICO Careers looks like a pretty cool company to work for. I don’t know that I would necessarily want to work as an employee answering phones anywhere, but whoever has the job of social media marketing for GEICO has a pretty cool job. What makes this particular video really smart is that it highlights the [...]

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Slow motion video campaign of dogs who LOVE dog treats.

March 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments

I’m not sure if this ad passes the “Is My Ad A Cliche?” test. I mean, it is an ad for dog treats so it seems like it should pass. Either way, it’s so damn amazing. Advertisers, you’ll get me with slow motion every time – but slow motion dogs?? Give me a break that’s [...]

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Chicken McNuggests are olympic athletes favorite food!

February 26th, 2010 · No Comments

Will any athlete who actually thought that Chicken McNuggets were their favorite food while at the Olympics please contact me? If no one contacts me I’ll be forced to assume that McDonalds made this up.
Please pass this along – I don’t have time to forward this to all the athletes myself. Thanks.
Sincerely,
Whit Scott

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I was caught, kind of…

February 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment

I made a claim in my last blog post “Stop Babies and Puppies“, that the AICP did not have their video on YouTube. Bad journalism by me – they’ll let anyone blog these days, won’t they‽ Who’s running the Internet anyway? And for that matter, why is Internet capitalized yet my wife is allowed to [...]

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