What’s so hard about getting Australian stock photography. Does the woman in pic 3 look ‘average mum’ to you? Oh, because the tunnel operator saved a few bucks by using a crap agency that can’t get their shit together. Vrooooom, F.
Month: March 2007
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I could not think of anything worse
I have always looked for ways to avoid advertising, even when I was on the side of the coin and making it. Now, with downaloadable TV, podcasting and AppleTV my exposure to advertising is approaching a mere million images a day – better than most at 20 million, or so.
Recorded inbound calls from the PM at the last elelction made me vote for what turned out to be a crazy man (not Mr Howard, the other guy).
So this is my kind of hell. Kiddies – I hop you enjoy it; or at least find a way around it.
Link: Gotta go Mum, it’s a message from my sponsor – Technology – smh.com.au.
Link: <a title="Podcasting News
» Podcasting Audience Up 18% Since Last Year” href=”http://www.podcastingnews.com/2007/03/22/podcasting-audience-up-18-since-last-year/”>Podcasting News
» Podcasting Audience Up 18% Since Last Year.
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7, 9 & 10 v 80,000
Eddy may control the high jinx on 1 v 100 but the network he controls is about to get a mass of competitors and not from Foxtel either.
Back in January amid the hype of Apple’s iPhone, Mr Jobs announced AppleTV, which is due to land any day now. This device is a little smaller than the smallest of pizza boxes and plugs into your widescreen TV. So what? So this; anything that you download to your computer, Mac and PC, that goes into iTunes will play on your TV. Sick of game show after crime show after reality show. No problem. Flick over to one of the video podcasts you subscribe to (for free) and watch the latest show.
Apple is already gearing up for the arrival the product into stores very soon with
AppleTV Podcast Showcase.
Also, the latest version of iTunes has a change in the preferences of great note. Now you can change the Parental settings to conform to Australian ratings. This has lead many to speculate that availabily of TV shows and movies from the iTunes Music Store is imminent – in the same way that Australia got access to the iTMS many, many months after other countries.
But right now the job I wouldn’t want is marketing director at a large multinational-carbonated-breakfast-cereal-snack-food-automobile-fast-moving-consumer-good manufacturer. Where am I going to place my ads? What shows are my eaters/drinkers/drivers/consumers watching? Fuel Time! TreehuggerTV! Southerby’s Private View! My media buyers haven’t told me about these shows. What networks are they on?
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Shit, meet LG Fan
That didn’t take long.
Link: LG flummoxed by digital freeze – Home Theatre – AtHome – Technology – smh.com.au.
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Naughty PR comany. Naughty!
If you’ve got a dud product do a recall ASAP. No two ways about it; a mia culpa beats a multi-million dollar pr nightmare that ain’t no campign going to fix.
Memo to LG: Fire Burson-Marsteller for this stuff-up. Because when this shit hits the fan (stories in the broadsheets), you think any journo is going to be taking calls from these twits? I don’t think so.
Link: Smarthouse News – LCD.
This story is contender for “Train Wreck of the Week”. From Tuesday morning when the story broke to Friday PM when The Prime-minister finally had enough there was no getting away from the fact Minister Santoro had been found with his hand firmly in the cookie jar.
If we want better politicians we have to hold them to a higher standard. And if they want to be politicians they have to exceed that standard. Sounds crappy – but that’s the way the cookie crumbles.
Link: Santoro resigns from ministry – National – smh.com.au.
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Fair, But Cruel
This is a screen dump from Smart House News today. I know online ads are served based on criteria but perhaps a new criteria should be: No ads for companies/products that are being kicked in the guts in the article.
I am soooooo glad I don’t have shares in any TV networks.
Link: BBC nets YouTube deal – BizTech – Technology – smh.com.au.
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The Death of the Flying Kangaroo
I’m vexed by the potential sale of QANTAS to a consortia lead by MacBank.
My patriotic side believes this is the end of yet another national icon (brand) being sold off for a quick buck.
My wallet however is greatly relieved that if the sale goes through it will be able to buy flights based on price, service and convenience as opposed to national pride.
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