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Tags: View All | Transom | The Grindstone | Monkeyvision | Bobby Awards | Please Release Me | Political | Cannes, Sir | Mailbox | Bobellaneous | Listenomics | ChaosCourtesy of TJ McCue from somewhere out in the Bobosphere, check out this video called It's about a guy in a restaurant -- he's the Advertiser -- and his soon-to-be former girlfriend, the Consumer.
It started in the indeterminate past. A camp song, or maybe a double-Dutch jump-roping rhyme. It started like this:
Only two days ago, I vowed to do a live webcam self-vivisection if YouTube phenomenon Lonelygirl15 turned out to be the real deal. I am pleased to report that my right kidney is no longer in jeopardy:
Yeah, Hollywood is good at what it does. The creative elite -- through their own wit, cunning and extraordinary good luck -- get to the top and determine the entertainment options for the entire world. And because they control manufacturing and distribution, nobody has been able to topple them. No problem. Their entertainment is very entertaining.
Let's just say that TV as we've known it is in its final days, and the tens of billions of ad dollars that fund it essentially up for grabs.
This week in my other life -- NPR's On The Media -- we looked at the teenage YouTube phenom "lonelygirl15," who has been posting vlogs on the site for months and building a vast audience of fans and skeptics. My co-host Brooke Gladstone discusses all the intriguing ins and outs of the situation with Virginia Heffernan of The New York Times.
This Advertising Age and JWT white paper explores what multiple generations of American women want when it comes to family, work and life in the 21st century, decades after the women's liberation movement.
Too-Cool Apple Now Finding Itself on the Receiving End of Competitor Ridicule
Advertising Age Honors the Top Brands of the Year -- and the Brains Behind Them
Marketing Side Was 'Out of Control' He Says
The carmaker won handily in our reader poll, besting Walmart, McDonald's, Lego and Amazon
The Video Story of Dallas' Marcus Graham Project
2010 America explains what you need to know about the biggest consumer market-research project of the decade: the 2010 U.S. census. Demographics expert Peter Francese, author of this highly readable Ad Age white paper, analyzes what the census will reveal about the changing face of consumers.
Sponsored by ESPN. Join the world's leading media strategists for a celebration of creative thinking, innovation and a look at how the best are preparing for 2010. More
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