the official beginning of the holiday retail season.
Apple has caused a stir with a mysterious Black Friday online ad that tells visitors to come back on that day. “You’ll find dozens of great iPod, iPhone and Mac gift ideas — all with free shipping,” it says.
Walmart opens at 5:00am on Black Friday.
Best Buy opens at 5:00am on Black Friday.
Target opens at 5:00am on Black Friday.
Macy’s opens at 5:00am on Black Friday.
Rob Zombie’s Halloween 2 is coming out this Friday and this week they have posted some great viral web ads. If you weren’t paying attention, you’d almost not notice them.
Below are compilation in quicktime of the three very clever ads.
This year has some memorable and some not so memorable ads that hit the television sets this year. Check out what has been hot and what’s not in commercial advertising.
BEST ADS — vote here Prius people hide out in flowers and clouds
Ozzy Osbourne uses Samsung phone to make himself understood
Skating babies rock out for Evian
Giant hamster wheels roll for Kia Soul
Most interesting man in the world drinks Dos Equis
Flo sells Progressive insurance with help of giant nametag
Here’s another great example of selling that teeth whitener, by comparing it to what looks like chili on your teeth to someone who just came out of a dentist office.
Evony, is not porn – not by any stretch. It’s a free online kings and castles game, but those breasts are just so clickable.
After Michael Jackson’s death the Jackson Mania kicked in all over the internet. Amazon, ebay & itunes all top the charts with Michael Jackson memorabilia and recordings.
A Michael Jackson portrait by Andy Warhol that sold for $278,500 in May is being offered for a minimum of $800,000 by an East Hampton, New York, gallery, reflecting the booming market for Jackson items since the pop singer’s death on June 25.
Six days before he was to begin a 50-date comeback tour in London, Michael Jackson will instead be eulogized at a massive memorial service today at Staples Center. Like Michael Jackson’s life his death will be swarmed with media and public outpouring.
Confirmed attendees for the Michael Jackson Memorial are Justin Timberlake, Lionel Richie and his daughter Nicole, rapper Akon, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Beyonce and Mariah Carey, Beyonce and Jennifer Hudson are also expected to perform. Jackson’s older brother Jermaine is likely to perform.
ABCNews.com has also confirmed that Jackson’s fellow Motown artists Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder and Motown founder Berry Gordy will also attend. Look for Gladys Knight and Jackson idol Diana Ross to also show up.
Usher, John Mayer, the Rev. Al Sharpton, Brooke Shields, Magic Johnson and Kobe Bryant are also scheduled to participate, according to the Jackson family’s spokesman.
Tropicana’s rebranding debacle did more than create a customer-relations fiasco. It hit the brand in the wallet. After its package redesign, sales of the Tropicana Pure Premium line plummeted 20% between Jan. 1 and Feb. 22, costing the brand tens of millions of dollars. On Feb. 23, the company announced it would bow to consumer demand and scrap the new packaging, it had been out on the market for about 2 months.
No, it’s not a sales flyer for Spencer Gifts – it’s those
trend-setting product icons that watched over our shoulder as we
gobbled our way to the high score on PacMan. Remember Max Headroom’s guest appearance on David Letterman? What about the rumor that a real life guy with the last name of Noid got so upset about being avoided that he went on a killing spree? Oh, good times, gooood times. Now excuse me while I go dance to my motion sensitive singing raisins..!
In a week unusually rife with celebrity death,Farrah Fawcett , Ed McMahon -a little spooky to note that the king of pop, Michael Jackson,and the king of pitchmen, Billy Mays, were born within about six weeks of each other in 1958.
Mr. Mays, who was found dead this Sunday, June 28th 2009, by his wife in their Tampa, Fla., home, was one of the loudest and, perhaps as a consequence, one of the most familiar voices on American television.
One tweet notes, “He was the only human that was allowed to speak entirely in CAPS LOCK.” As Seen On TV
