Meme Huffer

40 days to go (Friday ffffound)

  

I know the global stakes are higher and all, but I find myself (a Kiwi living in London) far more interested in the US election than the politics of either my native or adopted county.

(images found at ffffound)

GQFP #52 - get a little inspired, everyday

 

More good advice for any planner.

The Onion channels David Lynch

Is that a WOMAN'S cigarette you smoking there, boy?

 

Little known fact: until the late 1950s, Marlboro was a cigarette for the ladies. And the introduction of the filter made Marlboro even more feminine. The brand actually died.

Leo Burnett rode to the rescue, offering a new target market for whom the filter had a real benefit: older men who were scared of lung cancer. But first they had to reposition the brand away from babies and mommys...

And so a legend was born, and communicated so consistently that it is now hard to think of the brand in any other way.

 

Righto, I'm off for a smoke.

(top image from here via Dr Cook)

Car advertising from the good old days

 

If 'The Last Tango In Paris' was a car...

(via The Blenheim Blog)

"Help me, Obama, you're my only hope"

 

From Ironic Sans

Give 'em truth! (GQFP #51)

"I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell." -Harry S. Truman

Occasionally the planner needs to play 'bad cop' and be the person who helps the client to face up to unpalatable facts. We should never shy away from the truth.

And always remember that you (should) have a great account director who can play 'good cop' and keep the client relationship on an even keel.

Another Friday, another spot of Star Wars geekery

 

(yep, more cool stuff from ffffound. I sift through it so you don't have to) 

Meme Huffer's tip for the recession

 

(yes, I am spending too much time on ffffound today)

But where's the Biden-Palin ticket?

found at ffffound