Film
Pal’s
Advertising Agency:Creative Energy, Johnson City, USA
Executive Creative Director:Will Griffith
Senior Art Director:Joe Schnellmann
Copywriter:Summer Stanley
Account Executive:Teresa Treadway
Director:Seth Worley
Producer:April Dace
Production Company:Dace&Mohr
Editor:Zach Prichard
DoP:Chris Adams
The longtime supporter of President Trump lobbed insults at CNN anchors and contributors, leading to a suspension of his Twitter account.
Monica Lewinsky is leading a campaign to address the issue of cyberbullying while other brands like Burger King are also addressing the topic in ads.
Find your buds? The U.S. marketer of Corona, the Mexican beer known for its “Find Your Beach” tagline, is dipping its toe into the marijuana business. Constellation Brands, which also markets wine and spirits brands, has taken a 9.9% stake in a Canadian marijuana company called Canopy Growth Corp., the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.
A Constellation spokesman confirmed the deal, which is expected to be formally announced on Monday. According to the Journal, Constellation will work with Canopy to create and market cannabis-infused beverages. Constellation will not sell any such pot products in the U.S. unless marijuana is legalized nationally, but it is eyeing the Canadian market, the Journal reported.
Canada is expected to legalize recreational pot next year. In the U.S., recreational marijuana use is legal in eight states and Washington, D.C. A Gallup poll released last week showed 64% of Americans supporting pot legalization, the broadest support Gallup has found in nearly a half-century of polling. For the first time, a majority of Republicans, 51%, back legalization, according to Gallup. Republican Attorney General Jeff Sessions is considered to be hostile to legalization, but he “could find himself out of step with his own party if the current trends continue,” Gallup noted.
Hollywood had another abysmal weekend, contributing to a 13 percent decline in October ticket sales, compared to last year.
Na conclusão da trilogia, o diretor Taika Waititi deixa a seriedade de lado e leva a Marvel de vez para a comédia
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(TrendHunter.com) For many, October is one of the most exciting months in the entirety of the sporting year, and the October 2017 sports trends reflect that excitement. October not only holds the MLB playoffs (…
“We need a digital economy where our data and our attention is not for sale to the highest bidding authoritarian or demagogue.” -Zeynep Tufekci What has the digital ad man wrought when the same algorithms companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon use to get you to click on ads are also used to organize your […]
The post Digital Advertising’s Frankenstein Is Wreaking Havoc and Damaging Democracy appeared first on Adpulp.
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With 240-degree views, headsets and “sweet, musty scents,” a new kind of pornography offers a realism that is exciting to some, disturbing to others.
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One day after losing a TV job and other projects, the political journalist delivered a long statement describing his years of “inappropriate” behavior.
Taken from Adbusters Issue #134
By Louis Plottel,
with material from Tom Phillips and the Guardian
For residents of China’s far west Xinjiang province, the “perfect police state” has descended upon them. The central government has cracked down on separatism and the movement for Uyghur autonomy, and sent thousands of military men to the province in a show of fascist strength. Since the start of the year, the central government has conducted dozens of military parades through the streets of Kashgar, Urumqi, and Aksu. “All the roads are blocked,” said a police officer in Kashgar, with a 12-gauge shotgun slung across his chest.
Shopkeepers peeped from their closed doors as propaganda bannersfloated by reading, “Unity and stability are blessings! Separatism and unrest are a curse!” and “Let all those terrorists who dare to be enemies of the people be smashed to pieces!
Since last year, when strongman Chen Quanguo was deployed to Xinjiang, daily life has come under increasingly draconian control. Checkpoints have popped up in cities, activists have been arrested, passports confiscated and GPS trackers have been installed on cars across the province. “I haven’t seen so many roadblocks since the last time I was in Hebron,” said a European traveller who had come to the region in search of the Silk Road but had instead stumbled across scenes from a conflict zone.
China has been holding on dearly to a sense of unity in the outlying provinces. Increasing securitization has been the only way for the central government to maintain a grip over areas pushing for autonomy. Rather than increasing the standard of living for the residents of these regions, Beijing has been spending thousands of dollars beefing up security and everyday control over locals. All this as capitalist forces and de-development push people into greater and greater depravity. “This is hell for me,” said one Kashgari, “I would prefer to be a Syrian refugee than Chinese.”
Meanwhile the military parades go on unabated. Over 30,000 new security jobs were posted this year alone for Xinjiang. China has become the perfect police state. Welcome to the new normal.
-Louis Plottel
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A rabid Florida Gators fan dressing up for Halloween in the colors of the archrival Georgia Bulldogs, complete with garish face paint. Pretty scary, right? Maybe? Sorta? Buffalo Wild Wings wrings chills and chuckles from this premise in “The Red Zone,” a three-minute Halloween film that ties into Saturday’s much-anticipated contest between the college gridiron…
Asked your neighbor for a cup of sugar lately? They might not have that … but they could have a garage full of Hondas to sell you! Honda doesn’t have a ton of dealerships in France. So, to get its newest CR-V and HR-V SUV models in front of prospects, it had to get scrappy….
So apparently we’re supposed to be pleased that Twitter will no longer take money from the Kremlin-backed Russians, who have been trying to manipulate the American political system.
As Ad Age’s Garett Sloane reported, the social network announced on Thursday that it’s banning ads from RT formerly known as Russia Today and comrade news agency Sputnik from Twitter.
Hilariously, RT fired back with a post pointing out just how eager Twitter was to accept RTs money in, you know, less complicated times.
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So apparently we’re supposed to be pleased that Twitter will no longer take money from the Kremlin-backed Russians, who have been trying to manipulate the American political system.
As Ad Age’s Garett Sloane reported, the social network announced on Thursday that it’s banning ads from RT formerly known as Russia Today and comrade news agency Sputnik from Twitter.
Hilariously, RT fired back with a post pointing out just how eager Twitter was to accept RTs money in, you know, less complicated times.
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