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marketing schemes
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Image: Kit Kat Bench
Break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bench. This is some of the most creative advertising I have seen in awhile. Maybe a close second to the “Got Milk” campaign.
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Image: Human Fleas
An aerial shot for an an ad shilling flea and tick protection turns passersby into the bad guys. This is when you've let yourself become the problem.
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Image: What's in the Brick Block?
The answer, apparently, is a naked chick. Luckily for her, there were no Marios around to find out. Oddly, this was not taken anytime near Halloween.
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Image: Sarah Palin Porn Movie
Major porn studio seeks Sarah Palin lookalike ASAP! Here is the Craig's List posting. I wonder what the movie will be called? Any ideas?
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Chris Brown Fooled You
Music Buzz His hit song, “Forever” — which includes the old Doublemint tagline “Double your pleasure, double your fun” — is not, as it turns out, a cute pop culture reference. It’s an advertising scheme hatched by Wrigley’s, announced after the song became a hit. Well played, you greedy monsters. Now does anybody have any gum?
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Miley Condoms
Celebrity Buzz LifeStyles Condoms has offered Miley Cyrus 1 million dollars and a lifetime supply of condoms to be their spokesperson. Unfortunately for LifeStyles, Miley has promised to save herself until marriage. Still, there may be hope because we all know how that turns out.
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Online Coupons
Business Buzz Online coupon sites thrive as the economy declines. Companies like to offer coupons in slow economic times because consumers are looking for bargains and are less “brand loyal”. I don’t know about you, but I am shocked and offended that anyone would question my brand loyalty - even in the toughest economic times I insist on only smoking Newports.
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Pop Culture Sodas
Business Buzz Soda makers are trying out new forms of viral marketing. Jones Soda is having a contest to place a LOLcat on its label; Dr. Pepper says it will give everyone in America a free can if Axl Rose releases Chinese Democracy sometime in 2008.
