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Gawker Media Acquires BooodCopy. No, Really. It's True! Yesterday, we mentioned Gawker Media announced the acquisition of the blog BloodCopy. We also mentioned it had to be a joke. Well, it is and it isn't. The long-running blog is part of a Campfire-created campaign for HBO's True Blood. Since it's inception, BloodCopy has kept in-story, increasing its fanbase of vampire culture lovers and show fans. Jezebel Gets Frisky, Malibu Bowls (Again), Google Bitch Slapped - The Firsky thinks Gawker site Jezebel is engaging in double talk by lambasting sexist advertising while accepting money from advertisers who, according to The Frisky, make sexist advertising. - Subway is out with a new Subway Kids game. - More Malibu Rum Island Bowling silliness. - adMarketplace would like us to know "For the second straight quarter, Google reported that it cut its Traffic Acquisition Costs (payments to AdSense publishers) in the first quarter of 2009. Their payout to publishers dropped 1.7% in Q4 2008, and an additional 2.1% in Q1 2009, costing AdSense publishers thousands of dollars." Coke Gremlins Revealed, Ideas Stolen, Tube Sox Made Sexy - Those adorable/scary furry things in Coke's new Organ Player commercial? Find everything out about them on their Facebook page and their Flickr page. - Tired of being original? Want to get lazy and just jump on the homage express? Head over to Steal Our Ideas where on and Adam are happy to concept so you don't have to. - Bud Spencer punches people for no apparent reason in Bancaja commercial. - Love this Wildfox photoset. Tube sox and car washes never looked so sexy. Gawker Media Pimps Itself in Promotional Video "This guy, whether we like it or not, is the future." So says a very angry Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger of Deadspin Editor Will Lietch in a Gawker Media promotional reel released today. The reel sums up the company's offerings and, in true form, gleefully highlights (while taunting, of course) its detractors. It's Gawkeriffic. We've been reading Gawker Media's blogs since Elizabeth Spiers made her first post on Gawker back in the day. And we've loved every word. While micro-blogging (think Twitter), social networks (think Facebook) and social media (think, well, everything else) get all the hype these days, blogs, with an insatiable dagger-like obsession, still rule at razor sharp coverage of specific topical areas like no other media out there. And they do it faster, cheaper and snarkier. Advertising Jobs
Brands Pay to Have Tweets Displayed on Mashable Mashable has debuted a new advertising opportunity called The Twitter Brand Sponsors Module. Brands can pay to have their tweets syndicated into the module which is displayed in the right hand column of the site. Mashable will also include one charity gratis. It's an interesting idea and yet another of the hundreds of Twitter monetization ideas floating around out there that, amazingly, Twitter has yet to adopt. The module was developed exclusively for Mashable by Dan Zarella. Helpful Blogger + Brand Idiocy = Social Media Disaster Oh wait. Didn't we just write that headline? Here we go again. Or is it "there you go again?" I can never remember what that Reagan dude used to say all the time. Anyway, here's the deal. In a blog post, Jason Roe pointed out a fluke on the Ryanair website that made it possible for someone to book a flight and not be charged for it. He didn't actually book a free flight but he wanted the error to be made know. How did Ryanair react? As if a Mastercard blowjob ad, pricelessly: 10. Ryanair Staff #1 Says: jason! Sweet, huh? But it gets worse. Upon confirmation the above comment did, in fact, come from a Ryanair employee, Ryanair spokesman Stephen McNamara said: Bud Macs, Portfolios Gamed, Animals Fed, Diversity Tackled - This is really, really lame but since it has to do with Super Bowl advertising we're gonna share. - Some stupid game called Gal-ad-a lets you review portfolios. We have a headache already. - Layoff blog Please Feed the Animals has morphed into a job site of sorts where "where job seekers and cash-strapped agencies could find each other." Check it out. - On February 11, BDI will host its Advertising Industry Diversity Job Fair at NYU. Get the details here. American Apparel Hooks Up With Chictopia Bloggers American Apparel has teamed with fashion blog social network Chictopia to feature the site's member's in a new advertising campaign. The campaigns will run on Chictopia's website as well as the member's individual fashion blogs. The models will wear a combination of American Apparel and the company's vintage line California Select. Beck's Launches Blog. Does Everything Wrong Beck's has launched a blog, Different by Choice. Yawn, right? But the way they've announced it and the way it's formatted is so annoying, it can't be left alone. In an email beginning with "Hello Important Marketing Blog People," Beck's blogger Darius asks, "has anyone told you recently how hot you are?" and then goes on to explain how he "destroyed" 850 other potential bloggers vying for the job "'cos that is the way I roll." Ugh. Cue the Agency.com Subway video. Yawn. Oh Wait, Not Yawn! It's Time For Another Sony Commercial! Balls! Paint! Play-Doh! Foam! Zoetrope! Zoetrope? Say what? Yes, it's time for another grand scale Sony commercial and it's being shot right now in Northern Italy. The ad will feature Brazilian footballer Kaka and the the world's largest zoetrope as vetted by the Guinness Book of Records. The zoetrope, a device invented in 1834 by William Horner which creates short films out of static images, measures 30 meters in circumference and 10 meters in diameter. 
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