Fake Sony Blog Re-Uploaded, IQ Interactive Sings

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– Verizon’s Giant’s Stadium text message contest suffers from bad “can you hear me now?” reception.

– Looks like the pre-holiday layoffs are rolling in. Time Inc. just laid off 27 from its consumer marketing unit reports MediaWeek.

– If you just couldn’t get enough of the fake Sony PSP blog, The Consumerist saved the entire site and reuploaded it to humiliate Sony even further.

– coBRANDit’s Owen Mack attended the recent Word of Mouth Marketing Association conference in Washington DC last week and created several video interviews.

– IQ Interactive singing heads sing Christmas carols.

– Who knew? USA Today says the wise-ass Windex bird commercial was the most-liked ad in 2006.

– AdMashup, the site that collects submitted ad mashups was featured in the 2006 Advertising Age Book of Tens.

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