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ObamaPalinMcCain Mania Fodder For last Minute Travel Club Keta Keta, creators of such classics as Make Love, Not War, Holy Land, Koolanoo and hair loss drug Propecia are out with an election parody for LastMinuteTravelClub. Throughout the video, in which Obama, McCain, Palin, Clinton and others dance around Jib Jab-style, "Product placements" appear for LastMinuteTravel. Hey, can you really blame anyone for latching on to this train wreck? Terry Tate Tackles Palin, Twitter Fundraises, Pepsi Trouble BBDO - Terry Tate make a triumphant return taking down Sarah Paling for failing to answer a simple question. - Last week, Amanda Mooney organized the first Twitter-based fund raising event. $180 was raised through $5 donations fo The Susa G. Komen Foundation. - BBDO appears to be getting the push side from Pepsi which has given a portion of its three year, $1.2 billion advertising to Arnell which will redesign the Pepsi logo and packaging. - If you're Hooter and your in Vegas, this is what you do to boost business. - Creeping is wrong. McCain Crapped, GnR Seeks Agency, Josh Needs Help - The McCain campaign finds itself in a pile of dog crap. - Writing in MIT Advertising Lab, David Rostan discusses ListensToYou and how it can improve online advertising by allowing people to choose the ads they see. - Guns 'n Roses is looking for an ad agency to help promote the release of its long awaited new album, Chinese Democracy. - Help Josh decide who to vote for on November 4. No idea who's behind this (other than Josh, himself) but there are a growing number of comments for both Obama and McCain. But a quick Whois search (not to mention her email address) points to Lori Nygaard who works at AKQA in San Francisco. - Risdel Marketing Group has put together an uber list: A Top Ten List of Top Ten Lists. Does that mean the page will get ten times the usual traffic? BB Plugs Celebs, Droga5 Bags Method, Mountain Dew Abbreviated, Frequent Hooker Miles - Among its minions, BlackBerry brags about celebu-users. How very AmEx. (Props to Adrants reader Atif for this.) - Droga5 becomes agency of record for method! Kick-ass. - The McCain campaign asked YouTube to stop taking down its campaign videos. (The videos purportedly violate copyright because many contain snippets of music that the campaign did not have permission to use.) And YouTube was all, "Bitch, please." What, McCain? You're all for Joe Plumber but can't pay licensing fees?
by Angela Natividad
Oct-16-08
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Topic: Agencies, Brands, Campaigns, Commercials, Online, Political, Strange, Television Gossip Girl's Serena Vanderwoodsen Wants to Pick You Up In a new pro-Obama commercial from MoveOn.org which plays out like a drug PSA, Gossip Girl Upper East Sider Serena Vanderwoodsen feels so strongly about Obama she says, "if you're ever out somewhere and considering about voting McCain, just call me. I'll pick you up. No questions asked." While it centers on the not so correct assumption all McCain supporters are old and all Obama supporters are young, it does do an effective job spoofing a genre that has become ingrained in the minds of the younger generation, many of whom would love nothing more than to have Serena not ask any questions while picking them up. Hayden Panettiere: Voting for McCain Will Probably Kill Us All Hayden Panettiere, the tortured chick on Heroes who can never die, joins an assembly line of celebrities hoping to affect your vote. "There are three things think I all citizens should do: smoke cigarettes, vote for John McCain, and don't wear a seatbelt," she says with vigor, tossing in a few wild "FUCKs" for shock value. You get the gist. Thank Funny or Die, creators of this and that high-larious Paris Hilton for President video -- another effort that makes Obama look incidentally good by making McCain look old and out of touch. Celebs, Scribbles, Gap Try Stimulating Youth Vote What better way to get self-conscious Millennials to the ballot than with a bunch of celebs being gratuitously cool, slightly ironic and occasionally almost (but not quite!) deep? Look, look, it's Bill Maher in a blazer, prattling about elitists. It ends with "Vote for BBQ" -- except BBQ is written in a Mad Libs sorta way, so you know the "vote for" is open to whatever motivation, however bizarre or irrelevant, you've got. Because hey, that's democracy.
by Angela Natividad
Oct-14-08
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Topic: Brands, Campaigns, Commercials, Events, Online, Political, Television Campaign Ads Get Ugly as Nov. 4 Draws Near Following their Tuesday debate, both Obama and McCain's campaigns have released ads riffing off something the other person said. Well, that's not completely true. Both ads appear to revolve entirely around Obama, actually. See McCain call Obama not presidential. See Obama accuse McCain of wanting to tax businesses for health care coverage. The usual down-to-the-wire campaign crap, but I prefer how Obama's positioned himself as the calm guy who elucidates muddy slogans. McCain, as always, pulls the fear card. Thirsty for more? See more McCain and Obama ads.
by Angela Natividad
Oct- 9-08
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Topic: Brands, Campaigns, Commercials, Political, Television 'He Wants to Overturn Roe vs. Wade.' MAVERICK! "We just keep saying 'Maverick, Maverick, Maverick' until that's all they hear!" snaps a fictional McCain campaign strategist. "It's not that hard." Because why write a jingle when you've got a word with the force of a heavy blunt instrument -- a word voters will remember long after all the other propaganda's melted together? Dubbed "A Fly on the Wall," this :33 bit of masterpiece theatre was allegedly funded by Jeff Goodby and Rich Silverstein in the flesh, then uploaded onto YouTube from their own computers. Well, maybe not the latter. Not the first "maverick" bitchslap we've seen in recent days. I'm just glad they didn't use children. More where that came from, and good stuff too, though all this blatant Obama-loving has begun alienating some potential voters. Ask.com: Dolla Make You Holla!, Political A-Listers, Blogging sans Byline, Gyro's Self-Aggrandizing Promotional Oeuvre - A handful of rich-ass celebrities use reverse psychology to cajole MySpace users into voting. What, does Jennifer Aniston not do it for you? Maybe Leonardo DiCaprio's poverty-ridden excuse for a blog will. - The wife of David Warthen, founder of Ask.com, is facing tax evasion charges on money she made while working as a hooker to pay for law school. - Three thought-provoking reasons not to blog anonymously if you're gonna blog at all.
by Angela Natividad
Oct- 7-08
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