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AdFreak drew our attention to this ad for a Philippine rock radio station, which betrays negligible knowledge of rock music. And logic.

Couple of things that have occurred to me this rainy, rainy St. Patrick’s Day.

1. It always rains on St. Patrick’s Day. I also think it’s wrong to have St. Patrick’s Day on a Monday. I think we should observe March 17 and always celebrate on the nearest Saturday. That’s what I think anyway.

2. March Madness is undeniably, most definitely and assuredly the best 3-weeks of sports the entire year. Puts the Super Bowl to shame by Monday morning after the selection show.

3. I hear something that made me snort water out of my nose this morning while lisenting to coverage of March Madness on 610 Sports. Chris and Cowboy host the mid morning show and I was driving into work after an early meeting when one of them (Cowboy I think) started talking about the Texas Longhorn cheerleaders and dance squad. He said, and I quote,

“I like to call those girls the ‘Future Pharmaceutical Sales force of the Greater Dallas Area’.”

Holy shit. There is no way to better describe what these girls will be doing in a couple of years than selling pharma stuff. Not that there’s anything wrong with it. I’m just saying.

Go Drake Bulldogs! Go Kansas Jahawks! Go back to work!

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The most satisfying company in America is H.J. Heinz. The pickle purveyor and condiment company beat out ever other marketer in the country in the University of Michigan's American Consumer Satisfaction Index. The Pittsburgh-based company led all food manufacturers with a rating of 90 out of a possible 100 points, besting not only every other food firm but every other company in the U.S. The second-highest score in the index was held by Amazon.com.

(TrendHunter.com) Nice to see Playboy TV supporting St Patrick’s day – a traditionally religious festival – by making their own film using strategically placed shamrocks. Not sure if this technically counts as porn but it’s not far off.

“Playboy model Sasha Singleton looks great in green, has the luck of the Irish, …

The We Are Gigantic site’s contact section says “We’ve moved” and a telephone number leads a company called Tremendous, which, following We Are Gigantic, is pretty funny.

Adweek is running an article by Alex Bogusky, wherein he reflects on his welcome to the lovely hamlet of Boulderado.

When we decided to move a portion of the agency to Boulder, Colo., a very surprising thing happened: The mayor’s office asked to take a meeting.

I was excited and a bit nervous. Boulder has done an amazing job managing its growth.

Well, these people I admired so much opened the meeting with a great line — one that made me gulp. “Boulder isn’t looking for any new businesses,” they said. “We have enough and as a city we only allow 1 percent growth per year.”

Oh shit, I thought. Boulder is a closed game and they’re not going to let us play.

Then something amazing happened: They said, “But.” My heart soared like an eagle. There was still a chance. And then what they said after the “but” blew me away.

“But yours is a creative company working in the field of creativity and employing creative individuals, and that is exactly what we want to invite more of into our community.”

Oh, baby. I was home.

LONDON – Whitbread, the leisure group, is in talks with the owner of budget hotel chain Travelodge over a merger with its Premier Inn brand.

According to Adweek, Pepsi-Cola North America is launching an original online series to support Mountain Dew this summer.

The soda giant will serve as its own studio for a serialized action-adventure production from film writer-directors Shawn Papazian and Art Brown.

To encourage online engagement, viewers will able to alter the storyline by selecting from a menu of options after each episode that take the series in different creative directions, akin to the Choose Your Own Adventure book franchise.

Carat has revised its outlook on the global advertising market, offering a gloomier forecast for the year.