I’ve had another chance to watch Advertising the American Dream, the featurette on the Mad Men DVD. I think it’s interesting the way advertising has evolved and continues to evolve, with the new technology. So I’ve included here a partial and unofficial transcript from the featurette, which starts off talking about advertising in the past [...]
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Ad Men, take 2
Posted in COM592: R&M, tagged Advertising, Mad Men, Television, UW MCDM on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Netflix Challenge
Posted in COM592: R&M, Movies on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Advertising Age article that was required reading for this week’s COM 529 class talked about the Cinematch application in Netflix. Netflix tracks your rental history and allows you to rate movies, then Cinematch analyzes your data and the data of others similar to you to make recommendations of “movies you’ll love.” The Advertising Age article cites [...]
Ad Men
Posted in COM592: R&M, tagged Advertising, Mad Men on October 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I wanted to address Adrianna’s comment from the COM 592 Wednesday night class that advertising is a necessary cost of business that must be included in any budget.
The absolute best show on television right now is Mad Men, and it just happens to be about advertising. Advertising in the early 1960s, when it was experiencing a [...]
Good Old Human Interaction
Posted in COM592: R&M on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I love the comic strip Zits, which is really in tune with the parent-teenager relationship. I don’t have a teenager but I was one, and I often see echoes of myself and my parents within the strip. Recently though, the strip has been focused on the ways in which teenagers communicate with each other and the [...]
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