Archive for March, 2006

Chevy To The People:”You’re Fired!” [Or The End Of Advertising As We Know It (And I Feel Sick)]

March 31, 2006

Sometimes when you give people control of your brand, things go wrong.
Here's the deal. Chevy got together with the show The Apprentice and decided to have a contest where consumers can make their own commercials online. They are then posted for all to see. Oops!

Chevy quickly took this offending commercial down this [...]

Scott Karp Wins!! (Or Did He?)

March 31, 2006

 
MySpace.com has removed 200,000 “objectionable” profiles from its site. 
Scott Karp's site is also down (10:23am eastern time).
There is no proof to the rumor it was hacked by former MySpacers…
(original picture by binary koala)

The End Of Advertising As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

March 30, 2006

Welcome to the future of advertising… 
"Breakup," a 75-second clip that appeared on  YouTube.com a week ago, has logged more than 210,000 page views.
Bowiechick, the filmmaker's YouTube username, does little more than discuss a recent breakup with her boyfriend.

After Bowiechick posted a second video, it was revealed that she shoots her clips [...]

My Day In Links (Daily Remix)

March 30, 2006

 
We'll get to that picture later.
Anyone who reads this blog occasionally knows I love YouTube. It drives traffic (just put your url with any video you upload) and most importantly it's simple. There's only one problem with it.