Brad Kay Is The New President Of SS+K

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You don’t hear much about SS+K. They’re kinda like the CIA. They do some work for Delta and Audi or some other folks and you’ll never know about. They do even more political work. They never tell nobody nothin’. However, today they announced that they’re taking on a new president. Mediaweek has the scoop that the agency had poached Brad Kay of SS+K to head up the shop.

Kay left Draft in July and has been consulting with SS+K ever since. He apparently loves their political work.

“We’re seeing more and more marketers struggle to get traction,” he said. “We’re going to see a whole new form take shape in social media with advocacy and issue-related campaigns.”

Okay. There’s Kay prediction for 2009.

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YouTube Pulls Warner Music Videos

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Bad Placement Review: Toyota

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Sometimes, when ad placement goes awry, it’s nice to sit back and enjoy the show. Take the above image for example (thank you anon tipster). Toyota’s advertising has been at issue for some time now, namely because of, ‘Saved by Zero, (coincidentally, we already wrote about it earlier today). But the ad above (Saatchi-born) for the ever-lame ‘Toyotathon’ makes us feel increasingly indifferent about the brand.

Why? Because even though they make great cars with cool interiors, buying one means $xx,xxx.xx dollars just went to Japan. But, who can get a loan these days anyway? We’ll stick to the ever-awesome MTA and gas-guzzling Crown-Vic cabs.

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In response to findings that tire air pressure is directly related to fuel efficiency, Michelin Tires rolled out two series of “low rolling resistance” tires to meet consumers’ ever-growing need for fuel saving goods. But the legitimacy of claims made in ads for the new products has been called into question and now the tire maker may have to do some back-pedaling to clear things up.

According to TireReview, a Web site dedicated to all things rubber and road related (not to be confused with rubber and rode), Bridgestone filed a complaint with the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus (NAD) calling ‘bullshit’ on claims made in Michelin ads that all their products are the most fuel-efficient (and more &#151 see this article for more details).

NAD has made recommendations to Michelin about modifying the fine print to be more clear about their wares &#151 but let this be a reminder to you all: if you lie about what your product does, you’ll probably have a few months before anyone catches on. And by then enough widgets will have sold that it will all have been worth while. Let’s hope they cover this riveting subject on TNT’s ‘TrustMe’.

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Bogusky Paints His Nails Black and Gives Staff Guitars to Shred With

A tipster sent us the link to CPB Shred School, a sweet little micro that the CP+B set up to teach their staffers how to use the guitars they were all given. Free guitars? Alex, buddy, my brother has mine out in Colorado and I don’t expect him to give it back. What’s a guy got to do (outside of actually working for you) to get a thrash-box gratis, courtesy CP+B? Blogola…check check 1,2. Is this thing on?

Anyway, above is the intro video to the site, with an unplugged performance by Mr. Bogusky. To match his new gitt-ar, AlBo painted his nails black, just like Ozzy! But rather than biting the head off a bat, Bogusky uses his ax to lop off any fears that he’s not the coolest addie out there, running the best agency (this year, according to Creativity). Enjoy.

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TV Advertising Prices: Networks Resist Discount Requests

CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — Prodded by clients struggling with the recession, media buyers are asking TV networks to roll back advertising prices, both in the current scatter market and for ad time booked during the 2008 upfront. Network executives, while sympathetic to their clients' problems, say there's enough demand in the market to keep prices near where they have been since the May upfront. But if the economy worsens, that could change in the second quarter and affect next year's upfront market. Ad pricing is certainly a subject that's being discussed as companies look to cut costs. And media spending is a major expense for marketers.

No ‘Recession Specials’ in TV Ad Space

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TV ad sales people take note: there’s a recession on, so you may want to start dropping them prices, mmmk? OK well you might not have anything to do with it, but from what we’re hearing (and reading) few networks have responded to the down economy like the rest of the world has: with recession specials that help offset decreasing media budgets.

The standard for most companies facing said cuts has been two-fold: lower product prices (whether it be socks or filet mignon) and lay-offs. Trim the fat and charge less for the meat, baby. So, why are TV ads still going for the going-rate? Because they can! But shouldn’t they be?

When it comes to having ones head up his/her ass, no one does it better than the proverbial TV/cable network. Overpriced, under-delivered content is the status quo in TV &#151 especially when compared to digital offerings. Yet gobs of money are still wasted there. Sure sure, TV gets eyeballs, but as we near the end of the first decade of this century that phenomenon is going the way of the reality TV show (though no one has told MTV that, it seems…16 new reality shows planned for ’09).

Like newspapers, we assert that TV advertising will decline (at least until we all get our shit together) in relevancy. Well, we think it’s already happening, but catching up takes time.

Maybe we’re not the best example, but over the weekend we took in nothing but OnDemand and HBO content (Summer Heights High, watch it, love it). Nonetheless, as user selectivity increases networks will be hard-set to sell ad space for as much as they once did. It’s going to happen &#151 it is happening &#151 and if you don’t believe us, just ask yourself: what did you watch this weekend?

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