Have you ever watched a show where the plot focuses on an ad campaign run by one of the show’s characters? This has happened to me a couple of times with my soaps. All My Children characters run a business and occasionally the pretend company’s advertising coincides with the real deal. Right now is one [...]
I saw an Adidas basketball sneaker commercial earlier today and was trying to remember what brands I have seen put commercials on television. I remember when Nike were THE sneaker and they always had commercials on telling us to “just do it”. They’re still around but I don’t see them on tv as much. Other [...]
Today I’m reviewing the blog Anime Fans Online, a 451Press blog about the culture that surrounds anime and manga. The blog is authored by Jason. Anime Fans Online is on white, blue and gray two column theme. It took me forty clicks to get from the top of the home page to the bottom. The [...]
We frequently hear of news on celebrities on the radio, and we see that news on the internet, in newspapers and on television. I found myself thinking this morning about people on other career paths that have to interact with these celebrities in order to make a living. Let’s take a Hollywood real estate agent [...]
Nascar Angels is a show where they pick a deserving person each week who needs their car fixed. the mission of the show, now in its second season, is to help people, fix cars and promote car care awareness. The show is hosted by my favorite Nascar driver of all time Rusty Wallace, along with [...]
I have noticed lately that both Moen and Delta are the only fixture companies that I’ve seen place commercials on television. Is this like a Ford Chevy battle between the faucets? They’re both pretty big names. I envisioned my own fixture commercial today and here’s what happened. A Moen hand sprayer was in one corner [...]
It’s come out that the masseuse that found Heath Ledger’s unresponsive body called MaryKate Olsen not once, but twice, before calling 911 from Ledger’s cell phone for help. My mind is totally boggled trying to figure out what the reasoning for this could be. It really doesn’t matter what their relationship had been in the [...]
Lately I have been seeing celebrities doing advertisements on television pushing different products. The ones I’m seeing frequently have a common message – they all seem to be different forms of insurance or health products targeted at seniors. All of these companies seem to be offering a low life insurance rate or health supplies. Now [...]
Are you wondering who will be running ads in this year’s Super Bowl? I was watching the news on a New York ABC affiliate and Bill Weir was doing a piece on the concept of a Presidential candidate running a Superbowl ad. He quoted ads for this year’s Bowl as costing $100,000 per second. Wow! [...]
I took my son to the Verizon store a couple of days ago. We put our name into the computer to be put onto the list of people waiting for a rep and browsed the store. Over near what I call the tv phones (by that I mean cell phones that you can watch tv [...]