MacDonalds Chant Off. User Generated Content is a horrid term, how about we use Consumer Generated Media? Or even better, People Creating Stuff. From New York Times: The year was 1974: gas prices were high, inflation was rampant and an unpopular Republican occupied the White House. McDonald’s introduced a spirit-lifting jingle: “Two all beef patties,…
This could be a fascinating exercise in collective Australian imagination, I reckon. Ellenor Cox is a brilliant TV producer, and has come up with a great concept with Scorched!I think the actress is some famous young star off of ABC TV or something? Read the comments on YouTube… funny buzzy little micro-discussions. Place yourself in…
For the last year or so I’ve been speaking – at conferences, in courses, wherever – about the dangers of going to war with your customer. And how the next wave is going to be companies concentrating all their energies on damage control. No more questions of ‘should we be involved in social media’ but…
Synopsis. Cannes viral video award was won by Speed Undressing – and mightily pissed off the “client” JC Penney. Agency User Generated Content Anyone? (AUGC) I wrote earlier about Save Our Advertising: speak up, get with it, get engaged with the online community, connect. And I’m speaking to the advertising agencies themselves, not their clients….
Beautiful new site – mashup of tags and Flickr photos and galaxies of planets called Tag Galaxy:The white thing glows and bounces around.I put in ButterfliesIt auto created planets made from related tagsUnfortunately, flat pictures JPGs can’t how you how to make this full screen, or how the photos fly on, or how to spin…
EDIT: thanks to ServantOfChaos for pointing me to TrukStop I was thinking about how we’ve always added our two cents worth to content we like. When I was growing up, Doc Neeson and The Angels had this song:Pristine version, from telly, but expletives are added in YouTube comments *laughs* After Doc Neeson (?) sang the…
… or evolve it? PHYSICIAN, HEAL THYSELF. The Gruen Transfer is buzzing: As of last night, 6100 spoof ads had been edited, scripted and uploaded to the website by viewers of The Gruen Transfer, the 10-part series which has been watched by more than 1 million viewers each week.(Julian Lee, Sydney Morning Herald, Monster Mash…
From The Asia Times Online: Party time at South Korea’s protest 2.0 By Sunny Lee SEOUL – This is strange. Even as anti-government demonstrations in South Korea go, this is an odd, odd scene. Even a foreigner thinks so. “I have never seen anything like this before,” said Jeff Lazar, an American activist observing the…
I have spoken – publicly at conferences, and here on the blog – over the last couple of years at least, about the need for an unIndustry organisation to protect our content from interactive, new and digital media agencies, amongst others. Here’s another example of why (definatalie): Get FUNK’D! Say no to design contests. FUNK’D…
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