Around the Creative World (6/30/09)
June 30th, 2009
Hard to believe the 4th of July is almost here. Where did June go? Maybe I spent too much time blogging… Nah! (I just high-fived my laptop. Too much time at the computer?)
Here are the latest links related to advertising, marketing, entertainment, the internet and anything creativity-related. Enjoy!
- Rest in Peace, Billy Mays. It’s still very hard to believe that he died at 50, three days or so after appearing on Conan, and after the summer of celebrity deaths we have already had. AdAge wonders what will happen to his ads.
- Remember those weird Bill Gates/Jerry Seinfeld Microsoft ads? The weirdness continues with Dean Cain.
- Rest in Peace, Michael Jackson. Director Bob Giraldi remembers working with “the gloved one” on the famous Pepsi campaign.
- Yes, We Cannes = A bunch of creative types try hard to pump themselves up in France, Obama-style.
- Wear your favorite New York Subway line on a t-shirt! (I have a feeling these shirts are a lot cooler if you wear them outside the city.)
- Are public bathrooms the new hotspot for advertising? Well, maybe it’s not a “new” concept…but the methods seem to be getting more creative.
- Pringles switches from “once you pop, you can’t stop” to “once you click, you can’t stop” with this banner ad.
- Remember “pokes” on Facebook? They’ve made the jump to Twitter. (I know. I’m not excited about it either.)
Brian Laesch wrote this blog for Eleventh Hour.
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will be Conan’s top guest. I don’t understand why Shia LaBeaouf gets top-billing over Phil Jackson, but maybe they are basing it on demographics…and the fact that Phil may engage in a Zen-like discussion that would literally put people to sleep before they finished watching the show (but if the TV is left on, how does that hurt ratings?). Anyway, I guess we’ll find out. Maybe Shia will let Phil go first. Make that, maybe Steven Spielberg will let Phil go first.



