A choir makes the sound effects for a Honda ad. If they do all those sounds they are amazing.
My favorites of the 10 points:
1) Marketing is not a department.
2) Marketing is a conversation, but most people don't speak geek.
3) Simplicity does not negate complexity.
5) Think will, not can.
6) Only you RTFM.
Internet only political ads are cropping up all over the place.
New service is aimed at taking on Google's online advertising dominance. Too bad it only works in IE!
EXTRA: Check out the Wall Street Journal site and try highlighting a word and right-clicking. Nice.
Shows like FX's upcoming Black. White. and Fox's Free Ride are using MySpace for their sites now. I guess they are figuring that the community will help spread the word? Too bad MySpace is so friggin’ butt ugly.
Seen briefly on the ABC hit series "Lost," a surreal comic novel by an Irish author who died 40 years ago has been rescued from obscurity... The novel, "The Third Policeman," was written by Flann O'Brien (1911-66), who was influenced by James Joyce, and fans of "Lost" are apparently scouring it for clues to the mysterious island where passengers from a downed airliner are marooned. Craig Wright, a supervising producer and scriptwriter for "Lost," said the book, seen on an episode first broadcast in the United States in October, was chosen "very specifically for a reason." Within two days of the broadcast, 10,000 copies were sold. "It's been amazing," said Chad Post, associate director of the Center for Book Culture at Illinois State University in Normal, publisher of O'Brien's books in the United States. "In three weeks, we sold 15,000 copies, the same number as we'd sold in the last six years.
It's not that there is anything wrong with their new campaign, it looks good, but they must have Absolut balls to veer away from their highly successful bottle campaign after 25 years.
While I really may want to hate Alex Tew, the British guy selling pixels for $1 each at The Million Dollar Homepage I know it is just because he will make well over a million dollars with an idea anyone could have come up with. Damn you Alex Tew!
