Tag Archives: Marketing

Gotta stop drinking bottled water // I feel guilty abt stuff

Yall. I’m not sure if this is a product improvement, or just some sort of marketing gimmick. I drink at least 8 bottles of water per day, 3 bottles of soda per day, 2 cans of Sparks per day, and 4 aluminum bottles of Bud Light per day. Maybe it is time [...]

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h8 when memes are mrktng gimmicks

I was recently browsing the internet, and I saw this meme being blogged/blurbed about in multiple outlets. In the video, a group of free-spirited moms without kids who formed a band instead play the song “Kids” by MGMT on multiple iPhone applications.

Is this just some sort of ‘marketing gimmick’? Did some ad agency [...]

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NO MORE VOWELZ

To uniquely brand any product or entity today, all you really need to do is pick a consonant-heavy word, then remove the vowels.
I’m sure we’re all familiar with the blog/record label named RCRD LBL. Then there’s even Ocelot’s answer for his OCELOT myspace-backslash-unique URL being taken, http://www.myspace.com/ocelotmthrfckrs.

While browsing myspace, I was pleased to find [...]

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Paste Magazine = the ‘In Rainbows’ of Magazines

Paste Magazine seems like a quality publication, even though I’ve never read it. I respect the fact that they seem to focus their attention on music that is mainly played from the speakers of leather-interiored cars. This means featuring the best singer songwriters + stuff that could have been on the Garden State [...]

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