Promotion go Boom

Everyone will be blogging about this by tomorrow, so I’ll just say this.
We’re always taking into account things when planning stunts. Insurance. Rain. Crowds. Media.
But we live in a world that spends most of the time on high alert.
We should probably take that into consideration when we brainstorm stunts, as well.
Flooding Times Square with Yoo-hoo [...]



PR and Promotion is STILL dwarfed, big time, by Advertising

Little tidbit from a report:
According to Veronis Suhler Stevenson’s 2006 Communications Industry Report, consumer promotion spending in the U.S. rose only 4.0% to $44.47 billion last year. While that is a sizeable chunk of marketing budgets, it nonetheless is dwarfed in comparison to a much bigger and faster growing consumer advertising business. According to VSS, [...]



Chuck McBlood… Er… McBride…

Any addies in my reader universe? Catch the TBWA/Chiat/Day nightmare surrounding Chuck McBride? Basically, Ad Age "broke" the news that he was thinking about bailing to start his own shop. In response, this video "leaked."
Sigh. Thoughts?



Tomorrow on Geraldo – When Profnet goes Creepy…

Anyone catch today’s Profnet about a reporter looking to interview kids who have accidentally found porn while surfing online?
That made me laugh, for several reasons.
1) "Accidentally." Enough said.
2) Would you admit to it? If you did, and all your friends read the story… Well, reason #1.
3) The whole request was ironic to me, in a [...]



Bad pitch of the day – R-and-J PR for Samsung

It goes without saying that I have a name. I know I do. People call me by it. I react to it when they do.
Which is why TWO emails from the same person within an hour, both identical, and both starting off with "Dear     " irk me to no end.
Dear

Please find the latest [...]