November 16, 2010

Days of Our Lives and Product Placement – I peed in my pants a little.

Days chex

Jesus. This has taken product placement to an all-new low. Or is it a high? The soaps need money, they got screen time, they got dialogue -- that means cheeseball commercials right there inside the cheeseball storyline.  

Check it out.

November 12, 2010

Follow Friday

We at American Copywriter are totes addicted to dedicated users of Twitter. And while we don't understand why in the world over 6 million people follow Ashton Kutcher, there are definitely a few pretty popular tweeters that we enjoy. So here they are:

 

@LeeClowsBeard - All hail the beard. No other facial ornamentation shall come before him.

@Steffan1 - Official account of advertising badass Steffan Postaer

@PRSarahEvans - Making big waves in the PR and social media worlds.

@ChrisBrogan - Creator of the #2 ranked AdAge blog. Need we say more?

@AdFreak - Tweets courtesy of AdWeek's AdFreak blog.

@AdRants - The name is pretty self explanatory.

@AdContrarian - So full of snark, and we mean that in the best way possible.

@Mashable - if you don't know, you better ask somebody.

@TheNextWeb - Tech news you need to know.

@EbertChicago - He's not just writing about movies anymore. Awesomesauce.

 

Know any other Twitterers worth following? Post 'em in the comments.

November 12, 2010

Imagine presenting with this.

Me want.

November 11, 2010

Snow White Redux

This track is created with vocal syllables, musical chords and sound effects recorded from the 1937 Disney classic Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs. A lot more cool stuff here.

November 09, 2010

All I want for Christmas is an original spot.

Oh, thank you @radioshack! How did you know I was so sick and so bored of Santa and elves and warm holiday scenes and, most of all, rewritten Christmas carols. This is just what I wanted. It's fresh and fun and, gasp, benefit driven. God bless you @radioshack. And God bless us, everyone.

November 05, 2010

Cleveland responds to LeBron's new spot.

Interesting (and nicely done) parody of the new LeBron spot. Wondering if any of friends in Cleveland have any additional info?

November 05, 2010

Don Draper Says What?

November 02, 2010

Congrats Andrew.

The most talked about agency of the last decade continues to make pretty smart moves.

Good luck Andrew. As you know, we're all watching.

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