Mon 8 Dec 2008
Posted by Mike Bawden under Much Ado About Marketing
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With apologies to the Baha Men … a new viral video for JC Penney from Satchi & Satchi.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F2md4uGmMU]
Hilarious.
Note to self:
Things to get the wife for Christmas -
Man, the Holidays are tough.
Tue 4 Mar 2008
Welcome to Stage 9.
Disney has just launched their first (?) on-line production studio, Stage 9 Digital Media (summary, article). And with the launch of their studio, they also introduced their first of twenty made-for-web series.
That’s right, twenty. (more…)
Tue 22 Aug 2006
Posted by Mike Bawden under Much Ado About Marketing
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In all fairness, ratings had nothing to do with this. But when Sweden’s state-run broadcaster had a porn channel running on a monitor behind its newscaster Peter Dahlgren, it raised more than just a few eyebrows.
Of course, Sweden is known for its more liberal approach to sex – so it comes as no surprise when SVT officials say they haven’t received any complaints from the public. The media, on the other hand, is having a heyday with this.
Ironically, the station was running the latest political poll results while the monitor showing the pornographic movie, Sex Tails, was in view. No word yet on whether or not the results of the poll were up or down. 
Tue 3 Jan 2006
Posted by Mike Bawden under Media
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Monday Night Football ended its run on ABC this past week, marking the end of a television institution. MNF will be moving to ESPN (ABC’s sister network) next year for more money per game. Numbers for NFL games on Fox and CBS, on the other hand, have remained fairly consistent (and profitable) over the past year.
You can read the whole story on MediaPost.
