http://www.adrants.com/ Marketing, Advertising and Social Media News With Attitude by Steve Hall en-us 2008-07-24T13:26:27-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2008/07/agencys-mad-menstyle-website-shows.php Way to get publicity, Red Tettmer!]]> RSS 2008-07-24T13:26:27-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2007/05/kevin-canned-facebook-updated-miller.php - It is said NBC will, today, confirm the firing of Network Entertainment President Kevin Reilly. He will be replaced by William Morris Exec Ben Silverman. - Facebook is getting in bed with marketers with a new release that... Television 2007-05-29T12:23:54-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2007/05/twitter-addicts-rejoice-adrants-twitter.php First there was the website. Then there was the email newsletter. Then there was the RSS feed. And then came the Adrants Twitter Feed. Yes, for all you Twitter addicts, we now have a Twitter feed. And since we... Announcements 2007-05-10T14:24:10-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2007/02/blogads-powers-ads-with-rss-google.php - Advertising Age shifts into high Super Bowl gear with its Full Coverage section of Super Bowl Ads 2007. - Google's quarterly profits have tripled. Funny how AdSense publishers' profits haven't tripled as well. - BlogAds has introduced a new... Super Bowl 2007 2007-02-01T10:08:06-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2006/10/luggage-tagged-streets-teamed-coke.php - If you travel a lot and you're bored with your bland luggage tags or you don't have any at all, you might want to check out some new tags that are decidedly more colorful than your standard, bland... Specialty 2006-10-23T10:15:00-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2006/06/ford-finally-makes-bold-move.php If the premise of Ford's new Bold Moves documentary, which promises to rip the bullshit out of the company, holds true, the company may actually live up to the promise of its new "Bold Moves" ad campaign. The online... Good 2006-06-29T08:19:20-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2006/06/snickers-hires-blogger-to-reach-sk8ter.php Jake Levine, who's from Cherryfield Maine, a place we've actually been to believe it or not and where a great uncle of ours once owned a big company there called Stewart's Blueberries, was selected by Snickers to become the... Good 2006-06-16T09:40:59-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2006/06/in-sponsoring-music-festival-att.php As part of promoting the Austin City Limits Music Festival, Project D.U., an AT&T blogger-powered portal and branded RSS reader, is hosting a blogging contest that awards the winner a free press pass and pass for a guest to... Good 2006-06-13T10:33:03-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2006/05/sandisk-says-i-dont-want-an-ipod.php In a clever bit of marketing, SanDisk has launched a site called iDon't to promote its new Sansea e200 MP3 player. The approach is a snipe at the ubiquitous iPod and features links to other anti-iPod sites as well as... Good 2006-05-23T12:01:29-05:00 http://www.adrants.com/2006/05/gawker-strip-all-ads-from-site-except.php Copyranter points us to Gawker today where the New York gossip site has, with the click of a button, allowed its readers to banish all ads from the site except for evian water who is sponsoring a detoxed version... Good 2006-05-16T11:24:14-05:00