Things of note for the week ending August 31st, 2012
1. Dub the Dew
This isn’t that new but I just found another write up on it and well, I realised I just had to share. Mountain Dew decided that they’d ask the internet to help them name their latest apple-flavoured beverage.
The internet, responded.
This was – I KID YOU NOT – the Top 10 right before, some 48hrs after launch, PepsiCo [unsurprisingly] took it down –
- Hitler Did Nothing Wrong
- Gushing Granny
- Fapple
- Gushin’ Granny
- Diabeetus
- Grannies Squirt
- Gushing Grannies
- Gooshing Granny
- Fapulous Apple
- Gushing Green Granny
Brilliant.
You could blame the internet. Or you could blame 4Chan. Really, you should blame a naively conceived competition by a brand that should’ve known better.
2. Verified Twitter Accounts
Ever wondered how they work? Lance Ulanoff just had his Twitter account verified and was kind enough to blog the entire process. I thought it was interesting.
3. THIS. IS. EPIC.
4. Las Vegas Lulz
So that thing happened with Price Harry the other week? Yeeaaah, aside from a few red faces inside the palace, it turns out the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority were none too pleased either.
A fairly decent tongue-in-cheek full page ad in USA Today appeared earlier this week –
Love it.
5. The Darkness, covering Radiohead
There are no words.
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Bonuses this week: this Designing BBC iPlayer for Xbox 360 article from the Beeb is a damn good read; Episode 013 of The Voicemail Podcast is out now and is full of the usual mobile-related banter (but with IFA/Samsung/Sony extras); and this Leo Burnett vs Asylum Films debate is worth ten minutes of your brain [UPDATE: now with illustrative background from LB’s CEO].Â
‘Til next time…
