Bud Light: Tailgate Approved

At first this campaign annoyed me, but it has grown on me since. Plus the Grooler is a great idea.

 

Burger King: Eat Like Snake

(No words necessary)

 

Sour Marbles: Diver

Great ad. Love the idea and the execution. 

VW vs. Prius

I have been thinking about getting a car for some time now, and I have been interested in getting a hybrid, because of the great gas mileage and for other obvious reasons. The Prius was near the top of my list, even though I don’t know if I could actually picture myself driving one. I have always been a Volkswagen fan, and the commercial below might have single handedly changed my mind. It is clever, funny, but it also makes some good points. The idea of driving a Jetta TDi clean diesel makes me a lot more happy than the idea of diving a Prius, sorry Toyota. 

Any readers out there that drive the new Jetta TDi? I would love to hear what you think. 

McDonald’s: No Fry Left Behind

Haha, I like this ad. It’s different than their usual stuff.

Stride: Heirloom

New ad from Stride Gum, kind of weird. What do you think?

NO TWITTER AHHHHHH! #Twitterfail

Twitter is currently on a maintenance break, and it’s killing me. I never thought that Twitter would have such a big impact on my mood, but apparently not being able to share my ideas with my 800+ followers is a major problem in my life now (even though most of them probably don’t pay attention to what I say).I guess I’ll take this time to look at the newest change to Twitter – their @reply rules.

So Twitter recently changed it so you can see whenever someone @replies you, no matter where it is in the 140 characters. I loved this change. Today they made a change that I’m not so much in love with. They changed it so you can’t see someone’s tweet that starts with an @username, unless you are following both parties. This is a feature that has always been there, and now they changed it and made it not possible.

When this first happened, I weighed both sides of it, and understand why they would do this, so people don’t get annoyed by other people’s conversations that aren’t relevant to themselves. This allows people that don’t follow a large amount of people (who are a majority of Twitter users) to have a Twitter feed that isn’t bombarded by people talking back and forth about nothing. But, as an aggressive Tweeter myself, this doesn’t bother me that much. Then I looked at the part that really disappoints me about this rule…

One of my favorite things to do on Twitter, when looking for new, interesting people to follow, was to go to an influencers page (@unmarketing, @chrisbrogan, @bostonmarketer, etc…) and follow whoever they were conversing with. This makes it easy to find active users that contribute to the conversation; this is no longer possible under the new rules. I am not happy. Read more about the controversy here on Mashable. Twitter let me down today,  I’m sure there are more changes to come, I hope none of them are as bad as this one.

Burger Battle: Big Mac or Whopper?

Today I had Whopper for lunch and realized that it has taken over the spot as my favorite fast-food burger, over the Big Mac. Which one is your favorite?

Vegas, anyone?

Tomorrow I will be heading to Las Vegas for the first time, and I have to say that I’m excited and a little nervous. I’m going with my two roommates, Max and Bryan, for Maxs 21st birthday. We are staying in the MGM Grand, I’ll provide feedback on the room and services a couple of days later. It’s going to be a ridiculous trip, and we’ve tried to plan out what we are going to do, but have come to a realization that Vegas is not the kind of place you plan stuff for, what happens, happens. When I get back I will let you know what happened, with minor censoring I’m sure. Wish me luck. 

More Cool Guerilla Stuff

As you may be able to tell by now, I love guerilla marketing. It is possibly the most creative form of marketing, and it is soooooo cool when brands are able to do a good job of it. Check out the ones below, I found them here (well @alleighmarre tweeted them first): http://www.oddee.com/item_96643.aspx There are some other ones, but I like these ones the best: