Bob Collins
The new political ad from Mitt Romney against Barack Obama will probably appeal to voters with short memories and a lack of context — the bread-and-butter of politicians these days.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Marketing and advertising
Welcome back, football
If not halftime in America, then what?
Parents, kids, sex, and spaghetti
Olympic ads hit and miss
The ‘I’ ‘R’ and ‘S’ words
When protest groups engage in political theater, it’s hard to tell when it’s over and when reality returns.
Britain, bless its heart, has a watchdog agency to prevent TV commercials from offending its people.
Scotty beams up at last
Eric Ringham
Nothing says ‘let’s have an intelligent discussion about the science of climate change’ like a series of billboards supporting your view featuring mass murderers and tyrants.
If the Minnesota Twins were a cologne, what would it smell like? Chances are, it would smell like something that couldn’t overpower the Yankees’ cologne.
Nothing screams ‘success’ like a burning wreck
If you read the post I wrote earlier this week about Northfield’s Malt O Meal renaming itself MOM Brands, you probably can figure out that I think that the ‘branding’ business is a snake oil industry. Today, the journalism community is abuzz with another example of that.