I love Google’s SMS feature. Simply text your question (for instance, Tapio 29 Restaurant New York City) to GOOGL (or 46645) and it comes back with a text message, two seconds later, with the address. So simple, so brilliant.
Anyhow, Yahoo! has just launched theirs, (Text 92466 - YAHOO) as well. Let’s play with them both, […]
Great story here about how Kellogg’s didn’t really do their homework when naming their new cereal Coco-Rocks. Coco-Rocks is Euro-slang for Crack dipped in chocolate pudding while being made.
Oops.
More bad marketing examples here, thanks to Snopes.
So very, very sad. Judith Miller of the New York Times was ordered to jail today by a judge for refusing to divulge the source who revealed her CIA operative. (Link to Wonkette)
So be careful. We can no longer give tips to reporters on stories without having a bit of fear that our reporter will […]
Can we FINALLY take those damn "NYC 2012" signs off all the cabs? Seriously - Let’s go back to hating every other city again.
Good effort, but fortunately, no olympics. It would have been the RNC x 1 million.
Good luck, Paris or London.
According to this article in Ad Age today, McDonald’s is planning on making over their uniforms - they’re in talks with P Diddy, Tommy Hilfiger, and Russell Simmons to help them do this.
Their goal is to make their employees walking billboards.
Prediction: This will NOT work.
The whole concept behind a McJob is that it’s something you […]
The PR implications of how people will react to the nomination process
wil be like nothing we’ve ever seen before… Stay tuned. I’ll have a
lot more soon.
WWD is reporting that American Apparel is being sued, yet again, for sexual harassment. So tell me - is it really happening, or is it a bunch of people jumping on the bandwagon?
Thoughts?
“Can We Do That?! Outrageous
PR Stunts That Work— And Why
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