Archive for May, 2008
SEX AND THE CITY SPARKLES?
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MARC JACOBS ON ART CRITICS
“Art critics are like every other critic. I mean, I’m not judging. Well, I guess I am judging,” says Marc Jacobs in Interview.
Aren’t we all?
SEX AND THE CITY: TOMORROW IS THE BIG DAY AND…
CoverAwards celebrates with a Sex and The City Cover Mania Special tonight at Midnight!
WHAT TYPE OF CAMPAIGNS SHOULD PUBLISHERS BE OFFERING ADVERTISERS?
Jeremy Davis, a partner at Format-Studio, tells CoverAwards that “Advertisers are not only interested in integrated campaigns, but they also know that run of site campaigns are not producing the kind of results that they did just a few years ago.
The trend is toward sites that enable advertisers to reach vertical niche markets where the click through rate is considerably higher. Publishers will find the more specific the audience, the higher the cpm rates that they can charge.”
For more information on Format-Studio, which helps publishers develop digital publishing strategies, please click here.
RACHAEL RAY’S DUNKIN DON’T
Dunkin Donuts has pulled this ad featuring Rachael Ray after conservative bloggers protested against her scarf, which looks like a keffiyeh, a traditional symbol of Palestinian solidarity.
Fox News’s right wing commentator Michelle Malkin called for boycott of the chain saying, ‘‘The keffiyeh, for the clueless, is the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad.’’
The company at first just ignored the claim, saying she is just wearing a paisley scarf.
In the end though, they have decided to just pull the ad.
DID NEWSWEEK'S EDITOR'S WIFE KILL DARKER OBAMA COVER FOR THIS LIGHTER ONE?
According to Gawker:
“After working on the attached cover all week and making multiple modifications, the cover was killed late Friday night. Why? The wife of the editor [Jon Meacham] stopped by, apparently saw the cover and expressed her disapproval. Amazingly, the previously approved cover, worked on all week, was killed. I guess we know who has the final say…
Click here for more on the scandal brewing behind this Newsweek cover.
(Gawker)
RUPERT MURDOCH'S BARACK OBAMA PREDICTION
(Image via Splash)
Rupert Murdoch — Chairman of News Corp, new WSJ owner, and longtime torchbearer for conservative politics — said this about Barack Obama:
“He is a rock star. I love what he is saying about education. I think he will win and I am anxious to meet him,” reports the Huffington Post.
About the presumptive Republican nominee, Murdoch said, “McCain is a friend of mine. But I think he’s got a lot of problems. He has been in Congress a long time, and you have to make a lot of compromises. So what’s he really stand for?… I think he has a lot of problems.”
So there you have it.
SCOTT MCCLELLAN HEADLINES
You won’t be seeing this picture anytime soon.
At this point, the headlines from yesterday’s news say it all.
My favorite is, of course, is “Former Flak Blasts Bush.” (23/6)
POOR KATIE COURIC
CBS Evening News set another record low last week. The broadcast averaged 5.33 million total viewers and 1.54M in A25-54.
The week of April 21, the previous low, the broadcast drew 5.34M Total Viewers and 1.58M in the demo, reports TV Newser.
This news comes on the heels of Katie’s dramatic announcement to support cancer research.
