urn:uuid:da6f32c5-1d84-97a6-b9f3-82754280c154 2009-11-28T13:59:15-05:00 AdAge Staff urn:uuid:40ee78d6-4fca-8472-876d-457362f35d22

The American Demographics 2006 Consumer Perception Survey was conducted Nov. 23-29 by Aegis Group's Synovate (synovate.com) through online questionnaires fielded to 6,011 adults in its Global eNation/ViewsNet consumer-opinion panels in the U.S., France, G...]]>

2006-01-02T00:00:00-05:00 urn:uuid:3e502101-02b6-fe0b-b32c-86093659b565

What's the first thing that comes to mind for U.S. consumers when they think of ... GM: No consensus in the consumer survey. Positive comments about product (more mentions of "good" than "bad" for vehicles and quality) but many negative views about bus...]]>

2006-01-02T00:00:00-05:00 urn:uuid:a2129f0f-3fb5-0d73-fdfc-211149b39c00

General Motors Corp. is loaded with debt and the subject of bankruptcy speculation, but give it credit: GM scores tops for trust among U.S. consumers. There's a downside, however: GM also shows up on the list of companies that Americans least trust, a sig...]]>

2006-01-02T00:00:00-05:00 urn:uuid:14cf4122-8a75-f024-3a42-caa398811853

The Marine Corps has a new top PR person and she's a woman! Brigadier Gen. Mary Ann Krusa-Dossin picked up the assignment from Brig. Gen. Andrew B. Davis. The great Drew Davis is returning to reserve duty as commanding general of Force Service Support Gro...]]>

2003-06-23T00:00:00-04:00 urn:uuid:f5f1f904-ab40-f7a8-4b6f-0680a967f715

The Marine Corps has a new top PR person and she's a woman! Brigadier Gen. Mary Ann Krusa-Dossin picked up the assignment from Brig. Gen. Andrew B. Davis. The great Drew Davis is returning to reserve duty as commanding general of Force Service Support Gro...]]>

2003-06-23T00:00:00-04:00 urn:uuid:4049d46b-3816-4833-b768-8a7f02f5c8c1

Every American should be offended when the brilliant job GIs and Marines did in Iraq is clouded with suspicion because some Pentagon (or other) jerk spoils an already pretty good story ("Saving Private Lynch") by hyping the facts. If it's true the young w...]]>

2003-06-16T00:00:00-04:00 urn:uuid:7037071c-e7a3-f7bc-2f2c-6f7dcbb5fe32

Every American should be offended when the brilliant job GIs and Marines did in Iraq is clouded with suspicion because some Pentagon (or other) jerk spoils an already pretty good story ("Saving Private Lynch") by hyping the facts. If it's true the young w...]]>

2003-06-16T00:00:00-04:00 urn:uuid:3625c83d-40a1-b1e9-6a46-fb0dd756c22c

With the Afghan warlords back and Baghdad still in chaos, last month we were going to take on Syria. Or maybe North Korea. Now it's Iran. Will someone please hose down Rummy? Terrorism. War. SARS. And how would you like to be running a travel magazine...]]>

2003-06-09T00:00:00-04:00 urn:uuid:4c143542-2794-6570-e60f-33df368f7ef5

With the Afghan warlords back and Baghdad still in chaos, last month we were going to take on Syria. Or maybe North Korea. Now it's Iran. Will someone please hose down Rummy? Terrorism. War. SARS. And how would you like to be running a travel magazine...]]>

2003-06-09T00:00:00-04:00 urn:uuid:4aba9ab9-b59f-beef-96ee-8aa1841afb25

Always fun hanging with the Entertainment Weekly guys. They know (almost) everything that's going on, telling me just who 50 Cent might be, whether "Matrix" will top "X2" at the box office, stuff like that. Jim Seymore has, alas, departed, but I like this...]]>

2003-06-02T00:00:00-04:00 urn:uuid:e0cc3caf-2def-07c4-30c6-ac0a552a6ebc

Always fun hanging with the Entertainment Weekly guys. They know (almost) everything that's going on, telling me just who 50 Cent might be, whether "Matrix" will top "X2" at the box office, stuff like that. Jim Seymore has, alas, departed, but I like this...]]>

2003-06-02T00:00:00-04:00 urn:uuid:da07b2a1-cdb9-57fb-f400-f6180b278aa1

Very deft bone-picking by Steve Florio: Conde Nast Publications' hiring of Alan Katz as publisher of its as yet untitled men's shopping mag ("Macho Lucky?"). During all Primedia's troubles and the ad slump, Alan kept the ads coming in to New York mag as i...]]>

2003-05-26T00:00:00-04:00 urn:uuid:209e120c-600f-261a-0318-c02bb893ab64

Very deft bone-picking by Steve Florio: Conde Nast Publications' hiring of Alan Katz as publisher of its as yet untitled men's shopping mag ("Macho Lucky?"). During all Primedia's troubles and the ad slump, Alan kept the ads coming in to New York mag as i...]]>

2003-05-26T00:00:00-04:00 urn:uuid:1e2dedcd-b643-58c8-9532-604178f7cdd7

Al Primo was on the horn from Greenwich. The guy who created "Eyewitness News" in Philly at KWY-TV and in `68 moved on to New York's WABC-TV is back and brainstorming again. On Sept. 27 he'll go on the air with "Eyewitness Kids News," a 30-minute weekly p...]]>

2003-05-19T00:00:00-04:00 urn:uuid:69069eac-2c84-846c-2543-a7468ea15899

Al Primo was on the horn from Greenwich. The guy who created "Eyewitness News" in Philly at KWY-TV and in `68 moved on to New York's WABC-TV is back and brainstorming again. On Sept. 27 he'll go on the air with "Eyewitness Kids News," a 30-minute weekly p...]]>

2003-05-19T00:00:00-04:00 urn:uuid:9b0e1bb2-8580-4c2f-6716-0a273555cefe

Are we still boycotting Beaujolais? Joyce Wadler got off slow with her (don't ever call it "gossip") "Boldface Names" column in The New York Times but she's hitting her stride. Funny, insightful, gentle bitchery and lots of names. Nice work, Wadler an...]]>

2003-05-12T00:00:00-04:00 urn:uuid:1adde192-3a18-519c-73b6-d4fad09c3d51

Are we still boycotting Beaujolais? Joyce Wadler got off slow with her (don't ever call it "gossip") "Boldface Names" column in The New York Times but she's hitting her stride. Funny, insightful, gentle bitchery and lots of names. Nice work, Wadler an...]]>

2003-05-12T00:00:00-04:00 urn:uuid:1a5fd120-2f62-856b-8684-b21b65b02336

Of course we'll all want one of the very first copies (it's out June 9) of Hillary's book, but do we look under biography or fiction? St. Jude's Children's Hospital pulled together a team to help take the Memphis medical operation to the "next level."...]]>

2003-05-05T00:00:00-04:00 urn:uuid:c41f1c5c-543a-36ea-98d2-1da52d30a98b

Of course we'll all want one of the very first copies (it's out June 9) of Hillary's book, but do we look under biography or fiction? St. Jude's Children's Hospital pulled together a team to help take the Memphis medical operation to the "next level."...]]>

2003-05-05T00:00:00-04:00 urn:uuid:540f6872-d5e8-ba91-7a0f-49e54519ee49

It's five years since Myrna Blyth took time out from running Ladies' Home Journal to create a bimonthly magazine for Meredith Corp. called More and aimed at women "40-plus." And we all went, "ho hum." Well, they're booming along with a rate base that's no...]]>

2003-04-28T00:00:00-04:00 urn:uuid:12f8be9b-d7d2-3817-df80-9b5106407032

I realize this is churlish of me, but is Rummy on speed? Could we please finish mopping up Iraq before we start in on Syria? The Zinczenkos are taking over. So we'd all better learn how to spell the name. Rodale just named Eric Z. publisher of Backpac...]]>

2003-04-21T00:00:00-04:00 urn:uuid:04f6fdfb-d8a7-8606-8270-7d8a9d8dee2c

In a continuing down ad market and with a war raging, Hearst and Disney are rather gutsily doing a major magazine launch next week. On sale will be the premiere issue of Lifetime, edited by Sally Koslow, with an opening rate base of half a million and an...]]>

2003-04-14T00:00:00-04:00 urn:uuid:5b700703-896f-d8e3-9d0f-af6b24e4fc20

I've seen gutless wonders before, but that Dodger pitcher, Mota, may be laughed out of the league. L.A. visits Shea May 6, get your tickets early. Longtime Ad Age Publisher Ed Erhardt feeling his oats these days at ESPN and ABC Sports (he's now chief s...]]>

2003-04-07T00:00:00-04:00 urn:uuid:5ab318f8-b375-c8d9-9615-930fdbd67b24

War nerves hurting biz? Not at Vogue, where Tom Florio reports its March issue was the second biggest March ever with 448 ad pages. First quarter shows Vogue up 13% in pages. Embarrassingly not cutting edge on gangsta rap, I went to lunch with Publishe...]]>

2003-03-31T00:00:00-05:00 urn:uuid:f4f42ada-8d18-7cb9-c3ce-0d940b4ca2b5

Less than 24 hours after war began, NBC decided America would rather watch "Friends" than enemies. While early forecasts said TV would lose more than $100 million a day from Baghdad-to-Basra war coverage, the immediate impact on advertising turned out to...]]>

2003-03-24T00:00:00-05:00 urn:uuid:f6b6b1b9-b2d0-e727-234f-274571e1e1d8

Group Publisher Mike Federle (72-year-old Fortune and its younger Fortune Small Biz are his responsibility) claimed over lunch that despite the slump, last year was 72-year-old Fortune's fourth-most-profitable year ever. This year first-quarter ad pages a...]]>

2003-03-24T00:00:00-05:00 urn:uuid:8a215b30-6f00-0fb9-d060-25e7eaa75732

While we were all still applauding Bonnie Fuller's splendid achievements at Us I lunched with People magazine President Peter Bauer and its new publisher Kathy Kayse (the name is pronounced "Case" and she's a Lithuanian out of Chi and a dandy). They remin...]]>

2003-03-17T00:00:00-05:00 urn:uuid:b96721f4-0fca-0aa3-f713-c4061845c108

Sobering to realize that a guy giving this country a national nervous breakdown and has us on the brink of a shooting war turns out to be John Belushi in his undershirt after a hard night at the Garden of Allah. Just received an elaborate presentation...]]>

2003-03-10T00:00:00-05:00 urn:uuid:ef825733-b653-088d-9c26-97db7eef277c

Let's not forget it was Art Cooper who remade and revitalized GQ and ran it with grace and enormous energy for a long time. What Art did for GQ is analogous to what Tina did for Vanity Fair. A Wall Street Journal reporter is phoning ex-Hearstlings at h...]]>

2003-03-03T00:00:00-05:00 urn:uuid:cae1d790-8c41-7dad-8e30-b9639b4180c8

He's gushed to Vanity Fair, but has Ben Affleck yet brought her home to meet the folks? My fave, The Weather Channel, hired Deirdre M. O'Grady as VP-pricing & ops for the advertising sales department. She's a pro, previously with Court TV, NBC and John...]]>

2003-02-24T00:00:00-05:00