Tagged: advertising
On Marketing Bob Dylan
A lot of this can all be explained with one simple phrase, 1960s Bob Dylan is not the same Bob Dylan of today.
Aunt Jemima: 1889-2020
Pancake and syrup packaging will be getting a revision after 130 years, as the famous Aunt Jemima brand name and imagery is being permanently removed.
Of Popcorn Poppers and Pelotons
It’s not that I see this Peloton ad as dangerously glamorizing compulsive exercise or obsession with appearance; it’s not that deep.
An Instant Coffee Life: From Juan Valdez to Jean-Luc
My misadventures with instant coffee and foreign boyfriends
Gillette: The Best a Meme Can Get
There is no evidence that the “Better Men” ad had any impact on Gillette’s sales, positive or negative.
The History of Crisco, or What I Learned at Berkeley
How Berkeley – and Crisco – informed me that I was done with the technology industry.
An Old Problem in the Present Day for New Media
Whereas once they were thought to be climbing to success upon the dying corpses of newspapers and magazines, “new media” publishers and websites find times are getting tough. The same fate that brought low their predecessors, the drying up of advertising dollars, might be in the offing for them, too.
