By now most people have probably heard that the Red Hot Chili Peppers didn’t really play their instruments during their performance at this year’s Super Bowl. The group’s base player Flea made the admission on the band’s website a few days ago.
So it was only a matter of time before people in the music world chimed in, to either show support for the Chili Peppers or to speak negatively about them and talk a little trash.
Arthur Chu has been getting some pushback for his unconventional strategy on the popular TV game show ‘Jeopardy’.
The 30-year-old ‘Jeopardy’ champ from Broadview Heights, Ohio, uses a game strategy he calls “The Forrest Bounce”, referring to 8o’s champion Chuck Forrest’s style of play. Chu’s strategy involves ignoring the easy questions and jumping across the board to the questions of higher value in search of the much-desired Daily Doubles.
A Mazda Super Bowl ad showcasing the connected capabilities of its new cars became the poster child for distracted driving during a day-long summit held by the Senate commerce committee. The ad showed a a fleeting glimpse of a driver updating his Facebook page from the center console as he was driving down the road.
A Super Bowl ad is no longer just a Super Bowl ad. For most brands in the big game, the ad itself is the anchor for something that plays out -- largely on the web and in social -- for weeks before and hopefully for months after the game is over.So, how are the Super Bowl advertisers doing? Overall, quite well.
Citi is straining to break ahead of the financial services pack with user-friendly digital tools aimed at making banking with Citi as easy as shopping with Amazon. The bank chain is rolling out upgraded customer-centric ATMs in the U.S. this month and on Feb. 3 launched a revamped mobile app that lets you check your balances with a tap.
Citi is straining to break ahead of the financial services pack with user-friendly digital tools aimed at making banking with Citi as easy as shopping with Amazon. The bank chain is rolling out upgraded customer-centric ATMs in the U.S. this month and on Feb. 3 launched a revamped mobile app that lets you check your balances with a tap.
Using children in politically tinged advertising is often problematic. Some would say it's tantamount to propaganda. Still, the kids who sang "America the Beautiful" in other languages for Coca-Cola's Super Bowl ad are so charmingly innocent in these behind-the-scenes videos—and so optimistic about how the ad will be received—that it makes the whole ruckus seem extra ridiculous. Of course, Coke isn't as innocent. It knew the ad, by Wieden + Kennedy, would be controversial.
When Oracle acquired Eloqua in December 2012, Jill Rowley was ready to head for the door. Not only was Ms. Rowley, an Eloqua sales rep, assigned to Salesforce, one of Oracle's top competitors, but she questioned the company's commitment to the cloud, where Eloqua's software lived."No way is this happening to me. No way," she recalled thinking at the time.
Remember pink slime? McDonald's Canada continues its crusade for McFood transparency with a new video aimed at proving Chicken McNuggets are not made from the pastel meat goop seen in a frequently shared image from the Internet. By taking viewers on a tour of the chain's meat supplier, Cargill, the video shows in some detail that, instead of pink slime (processed beef trimmings disinfected with ammonia), chicken nuggets are actually made of chicken breasts mixed with seasoning and skin.