A couple days ago when we offered our insight on the Chevy Apprentice make your own ad site and wrote, “We think there are some voices inside G.M. that understand social media very well and knew this would happen,” we felt strongly, we were right. “This” being the collection of anti-GM, anti-SUV ads people created. In today’s New York Times, our assessment was proved correct when Chevrolet’s Milisa Tezanos was quoted as saying, “We anticipated that there would be critical submissions. You do turn over your brand to the public, and we knew that we were going to get some bad with the good. But it’s part of playing in this space.” Exactly. This space is very different from old, ordered, one-way traditional media spaces of yesteryear and to expect new spaces to behave the same was is just plain dumb. Rock on GM. Now just makes some cars people want to buy and you’ll be all set.
