Posted in ethics, social responsibility, tv, tagged Birth Control, Commercials, contraceptives, ethics, social responsibility, teenagers, Tri-Cyclen-Lo, tv, Yasmin on April 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If you watch any television at all, chances are you have seen this commercial. And if you are a female over the age of 12, chances are you know what it’s about:
For those of you still in the dark, Yasmin is the one of the latest birth control pills to hit [...]
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Posted in tv, tagged Grey's Anatomy, media, music, The Fray, tv on April 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If you are unfamiliar with how powerful a medium, TV dramas are for the music industry let me just give you an example.
Most people who live in the western world are familiar with ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy. However, before 2006, very few knew of the band “The Fray”. They have actually been around since 2002. In [...]
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Posted in social media, tv, youtube, tagged advertising, flogs, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, I hate Sarah Marshall, movies, promotion, social media, tv on March 30, 2008 | 5 Comments »
As you may have figured out by now I am a complete TV addict. So when I came across the ‘I hate Sarah Marshall’ campaign I knew I had to blog about it.
I actually stumbled upon the campaign one morning on the train. I was standing wedged between a tall bulky guy in a gigantic [...]
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Posted in Corporate Communications, streaming video, tagged Bad Boy Records, Blendtec, Corporate Communications, internet, internet video, iPhone, social media, Sony BMG, tv, Universal Music Group, youtube on March 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A friend of mine recently announced that she was considering moving out, and getting an apartment. In discussing how she would afford it, she noted that all she needed was a bed and a computer. It used to be that a bed and a TV were standard items for your new place. But somewhere along [...]
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Most people’s first impressions come from the media. Like most people my initial exposure to PR came from TV, and sad to say, that initial observation was not positive.
It came in the form of two (short lived) television shows: one called Power Girls, which debuted on MTV in 2005; and the other The Fashionista Diaries, [...]
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Well, the Screen Actors Guild Awards will go ahead as planned, having been given the green light by the Writers Guild of America. As such actors now feel safe to come out of awards-show-hiding; media finally have a red carpet occasion to harass celebrities; and designers, who have been starving this season due to the [...]
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