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D’oh! The Simpsons put on a Pair of Converse Chuck Taylor All Star’s
- June 14, 2013
- By David Allen Ibsen
- business
- fashion
- marketing
- television
Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie will be featured on a new line of iconic Converse Chuck Taylor All Star shoes. The Simpsons Chuck Taylor All Star collection features colorful screen-printed graphics ...
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Yahoo! Acquires Exclusive Rights to Saturday Night Live Clips.
- April 25, 2013
- By David Allen Ibsen
- television
- technology
- hirings and firings
Live from Yahoo! It’s Saturday Night! Yahoo! has just announced that it acquired the exclusive rights to classic clips of “Saturday Night Live” from 1975 through 2012, effective in September. It ...
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Mad Men: 50 Years Later.
- April 06, 2013
- By David Allen Ibsen
- design
- advertising
- television
- weekend edition
AMC’s 1960’s advertising agency series Mad Men returns this weekend for its sixth and last season. The celebrate the season opener, our friends at Shutterstock decided to consider how Don ...
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Who Really Cares if Jimmy Fallon is the Next Tonight Show Host?
- March 25, 2013
- By David Allen Ibsen
- trends
- television
- celebrity
- gen y
- hollywood
It appears that Jimmy Fallon will be the next Tonight Show host. It is rumored that he’ll take over for Jay Leno when his contract expires in 2014, and the show ...
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We all need to Get Up with Chris Hayes.
- March 19, 2013
- By David Allen Ibsen
- innovators
- disruptors
- television
- celebrity
- observations
- gen y
Chris Hayes is a liberal intellectual journalist, or what conservatives call the “media elite.” And so what? We are in the middle of a tsunami of half-baked, “I heard somewhere he was ...
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Cartoons Are My Primetime TV.
- February 23, 2013
- By Rocky McGredy
- television
- observations
- gen y
FIVE THôT columnist and Editor Rocky McGredy gives us his view on the world in weekly doses. Growing up, I was a funky kid. I never really liked pre-school, so I ...
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CAMPAIGN FRIDAY: Academy Awards Ads for Diet Coke and Hyundai--a Winner and a Flop.
- February 22, 2013
- By David Allen Ibsen
- brands
- automobiles
- marketing
- television
- hollywood
- advertising
The Grammy’s, the Super Bowl, and the Academy Awards are what we call “Event TV”—those tent-pole programs which draw millions to gather around their television sets to watch live broadcasts ...
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Taco Bell Previews Its “LIVE MAS” Super Bowl Ads With Mixed Results.
- January 30, 2013
- By David Allen Ibsen
- food
- advertising
- sports
- marketing
- television
As is becoming tradition, advertisers are pre-releasing ads they are planning to run during the biggest advertising viewing day of the year—also known as Super Bowl Sunday. Pre-release of ads on ...
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Five Things To Do on Super Bowl Sunday (Besides Watching the Super Bowl on Sunday)
- January 29, 2013
- By Guest Author
- holidays
- advertising
- humor
- television
Guest Author Mason Matthews is a lover of movies, history, politics, comedy, travel, pizza, and in a twisted way--the Super Bowl. In 2012, over 111 million Americans tuned in to watch Super ...
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AUTOROTICA: The Batmobile sells for $4.62 million. Bang, Pow, Boom.
- January 20, 2013
- By David Allen Ibsen
- automobiles
- television
- weekend edition
- celebrity
- hollywood
The 1960s were an age of power and styling for American automobiles. Tailfins were sprouting up to match the height of women’s beehives, and trunks were the size of a Fiat ...
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