January 2012
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Persons Magazine - Raising Hope
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Futurama Fry on SOPA
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YouLenz - Smash
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NewTube - The Simpsons
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Cher's Closet From "Clueless” Is Now A Real Thing
Thanks to Microsoft Kinect and the Swivel virtual fitting-room app, Cher’s interactive closet from Clueless now a reality. I’m still keeping my fingers crossed for a hoverboard.
CES 2012: FaceCake Swivel Is a Socially-Enabled Virtual Dressing Room
via: Buzzfeed
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13 Simpsons Jokes That Actually Came True →
From Flaming Moes and Good Morning Burgers to functionally illiterate politicians, the sardonic humor of The Simpsons has become a reality.
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Sike - Diary of a Wimpy Kid Rodrick Rules
December 2011
11 posts
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Um, The Historical Nature of Entenmann's Packaging →
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Vulture Lists Fake Websites Made Up By TV →
Most of the sites listed have been covered in this blog. They missed a few like Amoozoo (United States of Tara), MyFace (One Life to Live) and WeTube.biz (Raising Hope). Next, time bring me in as a consultant/fact-checker, okay, NY Mag?
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The Girl With the 'How To Train Your Dragon'...
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TKN The Knowledge Network - The Simpsons
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Still a Good Neighbor, State Farm Updates Its Logo →
State Farm updated it logo in response to digital, mobile and social media.
The current logo features a pyramid of three ovals, each labeled with a type of insurance sold by State Farm: “auto” on the top and “life” and “fire” underneath. Those three ovals are inside a box with the words “State Farm” at the top and “Insurance” at the bottom.
In the new logo, the box is gone, as are the words...
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Furious Fliers - The Simpsons
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S-Mobile - The Simpsons
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Fruit Shoot - The Simpsons
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Songs With a Brand Name →
Shameless self-promotion… Please follow Songs With A Brand Name, a blog I co-edit with Piotr Slusarski where we explore examples of brand dropping in music.
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Occupied Wall Street Journal
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Coca-Cola Scraps White Cans
While the company has frequently rung in the holiday with special can designs, this was the first time it put regular Coke in a white can. Some consumers complained that it looked confusingly similar to Diet Coke’s silver cans. Others felt that regular Coke tasted different in the white cans. Still others argued that messing with red bordered on sacrilege.
Coke said it became aware of...
November 2011
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Dunder Mifflin Morphs Into Real-Life Brand -... →
The struggles of fictional paper company Dunder Mifflin to compete with real-life office-supply chains like Staples Inc. are a running joke on NBC’s “The Office.” Now, an online outlet owned by Staples is using the Dunder Mifflin name to try to sell more copy paper.
Staples’ Quill.com has struck a licensing deal with NBC’s parent company to launch a Dunder Mifflin brand. Priced largely above...
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The Branding of the Occupy Movement →
image via: adbusters
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Marching Band - The Simpsons
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Product Placement: An Infographic
Via: Online MBA Advice
Thanks, Muhammad!!
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Tumblr & Reddit Censor Websites to Fight SOPA
To protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, Tumblr and Reddit drew black bars on their websites. Tumblr went the extra mile and censored all content on its dashboard page to prompt users into action. When you click on any of the blacked out content, you’re directed to a page that allows you to contact congress and let them know you’re against corporate censorship of the Internet....
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Red Tots - The Simpsons
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Cup of Soup - South Park
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WPS - Parks & Recreation
October 2011
15 posts
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MFC (Medicinal Fried Chicken) - South Park
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Arctic White Coca-Cola Cans
On the heels on its re-designed Diet Coke can, Coca-Cola will whiteout its iconic red cans to raise awareness of the World Wildlife’s efforts to protect the Arctic, where many polar bears reside. This is the first time Coca-Cola has ever changed the color of its cans which will be available beginning November 1st. Take note, brands are playing with their iconography in a big way.
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HUMANCENTiPad - South Park
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ButtFeed - BuzzFeed
My favorite website has embraced product displacement and I couldn’t ask for a more shining example.
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Master Chef: Extreme Snack Edition - The Simpsons
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Wal-Bucks - Occupy Wall St.
Wal*Bucks poster at Occupy Wall St.
Photo by: agent j loves agent a Thanks, Josef!!
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Bud Light Product Placement Ad
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WeTube.biz - Raising Hope
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Cavalier Condoms - Suburgatory
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Let's Potato Chips - The Middle
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Ron English's Short Shelf Life
via: Popaganda
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Steve Mobbs - The Simpsons
RIP Steve Jobs.
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Skipping The Ads On TV? Get Ready For The Shows... →
murketing:
Not really news, but: noted by NPR.
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Ashton Kutcher's Banned Laptop
I put a bunch of… portfolio companies [on the laptop]… I pulled it off for, like, one episode and then CBS came in and told me they were going to have to take all the companies off of the laptop because they didn’t want to promote companies they weren’t taking a piece of or something. I don’t know exactly why… So, now they’re greeking all of the...
September 2011
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The Human Street Journal
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Watchmurketing:
An uproar spread across the Web recently, when an ad for a new movie mysteriously appeared in the rerun of an old TV show. Taylor Orci takes a look at the burgeoning business of digital product placement and the effect it has on our brains in this episode of “Is That a Thing?
Product placement goes digital (VIDEO). - - Slate Magazine
Note: This is the first time I’ve watched...
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Trojan Horse Condoms - Futurama
Loosely Confederated Colors of Benetton - Futurama
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Me Magazine - 30 Rock