Here’s a pet peeve: when products that I would otherwise enjoy launch advertising campaigns that are so overwhelmingly gendered, there’s no doubt that the company in question has no interest in me, my matching X chromosomes—or my money. (See: beer ads, professional sports promos, and a certain outdoors-oriented travel magazine.) Why, you might ask, would the brightest advertising minds deliberately cut 50 percent of the world’s population out of their calculations, by doing the marketing equ
Promo Videos Gone Wrong: No Wonder Israel Didn’t Make the World Cup?
March 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · Main Content
Tags: Advertising Campaigns·Beer Ads·Israel·Marketing·Money·No Doubt·Pet Peeve·Professional Sports·Promos·Travel Magazine·Videos·World Cup·World Population·World S Population·X Chromosomes
The Marketing Of Black People
March 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off · Main Content
Has anyone seen that Fiber One commercial with the black man in his pajamas and housecoat standing at his garbage can next to the curb? A man walking by takes notice and asks the guy why he’s throwing away his Fiber One when he loved it so much. The black man said he really did like it. But his wife said it can’t be good if he liked so much and so he had to throw it away. Then the dude in pajamas starts getting cocky and says something like he can eat what he wants. At that, the guy walking
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::TRENDY NEW ARRIVALS THURSDAY #5-A MEGA OVERDOSE OF NEW ARRIVALS::
February 25th, 2009 · Comments Off · Main Content
What a way to end this month’s Love Is The Best Medicine series of promos! All of us Scrapaholics are in seeeerious trouble this week as new arrivals from a grand total of 23 BRANDS are at this very moment lining our shelves waiting for you!!! {PRIMA MARKETING} When you think of Prima, you think of flowers but there’s lots more that’s come in from Prima … but to kick off this new arrivals update ….. yes! It’s raining flowers at Made With Love ! Check out our ALL NEW flowers …
Tags: Best Medicine·Flowers·Grand Total·Love·Marketing·Medicine·Medicine Series·New Arrivals·Prima·Shelves
Canidae Pet Food Class Action Investigation
February 5th, 2009 · Comments Off · Main Content
Canidae Pet Food Class Action Investigation By Susan Thixton Published 01/27/2009 Pet Food News Rating: Unrated A class action lawsuit against the corporations that run Canidae seeks damages for pet owners whose pets were allegedly harmed as a result of eating Canidae dog food products. The Canidae defendants are accused of marketing, manufacturing, and/or distributing Canidae dog food, which, the plaintiff claims, has produced the following illnesses in scores of cherished pet
Tags: Canidae·Class Action Lawsuit·Corporations·Damages·Dog Food·Dog Products·Food Class·Food News·Food Products·Illnesses·Marketing·Pet Food·Pet Owners·Pets·Plaintiff Claims
