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Archive for June, 2010

Advertisers on Location Based Services

June 25th, 2010

GowallaSlowly, it’s finally happening. The choruses of people predicting that location-based services are going to be the new hot shit(tm) for advertisers are beginning to not look like total losers anymore.

No one has cracked the impossibly difficult local nut yet but big name advertisers have made their way to this new frontier. And in some cases in surprising and interesting ways. Check out Clickz’s excellent write up on a campaigns from Olay on Booyah, Gap on Loopt, Starbucks on Brightkite, USA Today on Gowalla and Pepsi on Sticybits.

Trends

Ray-Ban: Reservoir Walking

June 25th, 2010

Funny spoof on the Quentin Tarantino classic. Not sure what Ray-Ban is going for with this but it made me smile. Good use of talent.

Creative

Sprint HTC Evo Firsts Spot

June 7th, 2010

This 4G network thing is techno-mumbo-jumbo, it will be surprising if people care. Still, a nice spot.

Creative

DISH Network Free HD Spacement

June 7th, 2010

Liking these spots from Victors & Spoils.

Creative