Healthcare Provider Offers Help to Those Injured In Super Bowl Ads

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Now this is good. Massachusetts health insurer Fallon Community Health Plan took advantage of Super Bowl advertising "violence" using it to hype their health coverage. With simple type on a white background, Newburyport agency Mechanica recounts the 14 commercials and 31 people who, after their appearance in a super Bowl commercial, may need to see a doctor. The ad concludes with "We just hope they all have good health coverage."

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by Steve Hall    Feb- 7-09    
Topic: Commercials, Good, Super Bowl 2009



Carlos Mandelbaum Feels the (Brand) Love

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Semi-skeevy Carlos Mandelbaum is at it again. Last week we shared his examination of brand conversations with you and our thoughts on just who the hell Carlos is and what we think he's truly up to.

Now, we have two more video to share with you. In the first, The Poetry of Branding, Carlos sets a portion of a creative brief describing the target audience to music and reads it as if it were poetry. And poetic it is. In the second, Brand Love, Carols questions the crazy notion people might actually fall in love with a brand...and then he does...with a Chiquita banana.

by Steve Hall    Feb- 7-09    
Topic: Strange, Video



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