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Tag Archives: Advertising
Retro Friday: Good Grief! Charlie Brown’s selling bread AND insurance
Yes, yours truly is a huge Peanuts fan. And Snoopy and the gang are back on television as spokesmen for MetLife, a relationship that’s been strong for with [..]
Allstate to create Mayhem for WGN Radio
Watch out WGN Radio fans! Mayhem is coming your way. But don’t worry – the station’s listeners are still in “good hands”. First reported by Chicagoland Radio & [..]
T Dog’s Four Pack
A week of shock and awe – literally. A Halloween edition of T Dog’s Four Pack: Treats – White Collar. USA had a lot of goodies in its [..]
Advertising, Broadcast Networks, Chicago Media, Geek, Local TV (Chicago), Sports, Tech/New Media, Television, Various
Advertising, Apple, Chicago Bears, Chicago Tribune, Cincinnati Bengals, Dancing With The Stars, Dexter, Flash Forward, Fox, Glee, Microsoft, MLB, Sam Zell, Showtime, So You Think You Can Dance?, Steve Rosenbloom, TBS, The Big Bang Theory, The CW, The Jay Leno Show, USA Network, Vampire Diaries, White Collar
Best and Worst Super Bowl Commercials – 2009
This is the third annual review of the Super Bowl commercials. Believe it or not, this year’s crop was actually better than those that ran during last year’s [..]
It’s Jared vs. The Noid
Welcome to Sub Sandwich Smackdown! In one corner, you have long-time vet Subway and another you have feisty challenger Domino’s and their new oven-baked sandwiches, which they claim [..]
Debmar-Mercury switches ad sales for "South Park"
Cartman. A Twentieth Television Production. Debmar-Mercury has replaced Tribune Entertainment with Twentieth Television as national advertising representative for syndicated reruns of South Park, meaning Twentieth will now sell [..]
WCIU fined for kids’ ad violations
This dates way back when WCIU-TV carried Kids’ WB programming, and this is the price they paid for it: The Weigel-owned independent station was fined $16,500 for kids’ [..]
Burger King freaks out; Wendy’s wigs out
The “Whopper Freakout” campaign boosted sales of the sandwich for Burger King, which features angry customers demanding Whoppers after being told that the chain’s doesn’t sell them anymore. [..]
One good thing about 2007: It’s almost over
And that phrase is not just coming from Chicago sports fans. Expenditures were down across the board for traditional media for the first nine months of 2007 (with [..]
Miller, Coors to merge
The merger of two of the largest beer makers (behind Anheuser-Busch) will create a huge No. 2 presence in the beer industry, and will have a tremendous impact [..]
Advertisers pass on "Kid Nation"
Several blue-chip advertisers are passing on Kid Nation, the controversial Lord of the Files-type reality show where kids 8-to-15 years old build and run their own town without [..]
There aren’t enough DVRs in the world
Yep, you’ve come a long way, baby. And this Heineken commercial Bob Garfield reviews seems stuck in 1973 in concept. Worst. Commercial. Ever. (Except for those stupid Hyundai [..]
Wasted opportunity?
Arthur Greenwald of TVnewsday says that many ABC affiliates are passing up a chance to promote Dancing With the Stars locally. He compares the promo efforts of ABC-owned [..]
