Portland-based Provenance Hotels is an avid user of social media.
The boutique hospitality group sports three tasty blogs: Hotel deLuxe; Hotel Murano; Hotel Preston; plus a Facebook page for Hotel Lucia.
Hotel Max in Seattle is the only property they own that I can’t find a blog or soc net page for.
(TrendHunter.com) In an attention-getting act in the name of activism, an American teenager from North Carolina has changed her name from Jennifer Thornburg to CutoutDissection.com.
The 19-year-old chose to legally change…
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Cyndi McClellan, exec VP-research and program strategy at Comcast Entertainment Group, is tired of hearing about how hard it is to reach men 18 to 34. That's why her research team embarked on a comprehensive study, dubbed "Hunting With Lightsabers," examining the behavioral and lifestyle categories that define those supposedly elusive 35 million-odd Americans Comcast's G4 cable network is dedicated to entertaining.
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(TrendHunter.com) This is the feel-good trend of the day, and it’s a ridiculous one. Ever since a cat named Tortoiseshell Tama was appointed the official stationmaster of the unmanned Kishi train station in January 2007,…
(TrendHunter.com) This viral video, called “Don’t Vote,” contains celebrities like Sarah Silverman, Jennifer Aniston, Leonardo di Caprio, Ellen deGeneres and Eva Longoria who are standing up to spread their political views.…
(TrendHunter.com) This commercial for Zales Jewelers plays on the concept of lovers’ heartstrings by showing how love rocks.
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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Magazine publishers have often struggled to make the most of their forays into TV. Yes, that PBS series or syndicated show extended the brand into the medium, but did it make them any money? For its new series starting tomorrow on TLC, Real Simple magazine decided to try something a little different.
A kindly tipster pointed us to Grey SF’s blog, which until recently (we have no idea how long it’s been out of operation) could be found at blogs dot greysf dot com. But it no longer exists.
Hmm. We put in a call to Grey SF, hoping to speak with Brad Fogel, EVP and CMO about the matter — we intended to get to the bottom of this. Ring ring, ring ring, answering machine. We left a nice message. We called again, this time looking for Mark Sanders, a publicity dude we didn’t know existed until today. Ring ring, ring ring, no answer. WTF? We left another message, for good measure.
But it’s like, 90 minutes later and they still haven’t called us back about this most serious of issues. Your blog is down, guys, and you haven’t issued a release about it? Holy schmatoley.
Maybe they’re too busy trying to save the agency? What’s going on GreySF? E-mail us at matt@mediabistro dot com or call the number I left you. Let’s talk — we’ll be Freud, you be depressed, and we’ll work through this thing together. Just you, me, and the entire advertising community. OK? Kisses!
— love, AgencySpy
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(TrendHunter.com) Sell gold, buy Nazi memorabilia. That’s the word coming from an auction house in the U.K. Despite the economic downturn, the sales of Nazi remnants from WWII remain strong. Interest is very high for an…
Well Christ on a Cracker, Britney Spears is back in the ad world hyping her latest fragrance, Hidden Fantasy.
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(TrendHunter.com) I’m now a fan of Tom Hines because of this photo shoot for Rebecca Turbow. Rebecca Turbow loves the space-age, mod, slightly retro look for her new Spring 2009 collection. I like that Tom Hines posed her…
@Rands is a Los Gatos-based software engineer, manager and author. He’s also a Tweet master, right up there with @BadBanana.
Should the World Series make it to a game six, the MLB and FOX Sports have agreed to push back the first pitch by 15 minutes — from its originally scheduled 8:20 p.m. start to 8:35 p.m. If you hadn’t heard, Sen. Barack Obama bought 30 minutes on the major networks to air what amounts to the longest ad of all time that didn’t involve the phrase, “No COD, call now and receive your free set of (insert useless product here)”.
Anyway, game 6 is slated for Oct. 29th, the same day as the ad. Conflict! Wise planning on the part of Obama’s media buyers — as baseball fans will undoubtedly turn on FOX before the game for some pre-competition analysis — only to learn that Bam has bought that time slot. Nicely done, you sneaky campaigners you.
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(TrendHunter.com) The website Gallery of the Absurd creates illustrations of magazine covers that mock and parodies the cult of celebrities in our societies.
Created by an illustrator that goes by the name (or number,…
WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) — With poll numbers suggesting that Sen. John McCain's attack advertising on his rival Sen. Barack Obama is backfiring, some Republican advertising people and strategists on and off Madison Avenue are wondering if the McCain campaign is using the right tactic but the wrong attack ads.
LONDON – EasyCar.com has appointed search engine optimisation and online brand agency LBi Netrank to boost its customer base by improving the site’s search engine ranking as part of its online marketing campaign.
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