The theme of the episode is Kat’s dramatized self-intervention. She gets wasted, says something to upset her boyfriend and decides to stop drinking. Hmm, probably a good idea since her party antics got her fired from Miami Ink, and it appears she doesn’t have much involvement managing her own shop. The last thing I ever […]

Those Dove commercials are pretty groundbreaking right? Especially since the point of the ads is to tell you it’s okay if you’re not skinny, just don’t have (gasp) wrinkles! In which case you should, you know, scoop up some firming creams. Unilever, as I mentioned last week, also makes Axe which has those allegedly spoofy […]

A great post from Advergirl on how her job isn’t really all that different from the retail and service jobs we left behind. She’s from Ohio too, by the way.
I smell a little less like French fries when I get home, but I’m still smiling when I don’t mean it, slinging coffee and supporting […]

The New York Times has an article today about how the business decisions of Fortune 500 execs are often secretly influenced by Ayn Rand. Funny this article should come up, because I was recently thinking about how relevant her work is in the advertising world. I was watching an episode of Mad Men the other […]

Marketers now have statistical data to prove what I could’ve told you all along.
Some 88% of gay men and 91% of lesbians claim that a brand’s sponsorship or support of LGBT events favorably influences their buying decisions, according to a study released today from Community Marketing, Inc., San Francisco. The study also found that […]