WTF Demographic Mashup
Okay, so we made fun of Vice / Virtue / VBS.tv earlier for taking any and all baby-boomer dollars with their “open door” co-branding approach. But really, we’re joking on the lazy agency mentality of outsourcing youth-targeted digital advertising to Vice, who have been selling-out for so long that they’re essentially a joke. But this new one really takes the cake. It’s like they’re making jokes for us.
This bewildering demographics mash-up of AMC, as in American Movie Classics and Vice is pretty clear. AMC wants to re-brand themselves as hip and edgy and Vice wants their money. So somebody sat Read the rest of this entry »
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It’s gotten to the point that movie sequels are now approaching number four and Parenthood is turned into a TV show. There’s no where left to go with the sequel mentality. In 2010, it has somehow become acceptable to just start over and blatantly remake the same stuff that is already available on DVD. The good news is, that the sequel clock is now reset.
A friend recently summed up the Facebook-era of online activity succinctly, stating “it feels as exciting or thought provocative as watching an episode of Ellen.” Adding the phrase, “it feels like your Mom’s internet.”
and more dudes in dorms. In other words, good luck finding women outside of the fluff communities of Facebook, Twitter, online retail and homogenized blogging.
Can you also put “doing blow in the bathroom” as a tax deduction?
It seemed like a hollow charade mixed with peer pressure. As if anyone will be seen as confident players in some Web x.0
Then we saw this beauty. Some clown obviously had money to do an NYC cab campaign… But couldn’t afford a site? Looking over the vanity plate phrasing and antique account, we’re guessing it’s a baby-boomer who thinks they have advertising figured out. Which begs the question – why isn’t he running a digital agency? They meet the criteria we’ve seen: old, clueless and at the cutting edge of 