Marketing Knee Jerk Gives Us Fingernail Advertising

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While some marketers would certainly explode with glee if every human being on the planet wore the brand’s logo somewhere on their body but we just can’t understand why any sane human would affix logoed fingernails to their fingers. Of course, we can’t understand headvertising, assvertsing, babyvertising, voicevertising, cleavagevertising, bellyvertising or boobvertising either.

OK, wait a minute. Of course we can understand it all. Sorry. It must be this slower than death holiday news week rotting our brain. There’s always plenty of money-hungry fools around to add to this list of marketing stunts. That and the fact the entire ad industry is in the middle of some sort of knee jerk reaction to all the “death of the :30/traditional advertising” woe that’s been spinning around since marketers woke up and realized, oops, there’s these ad skipping things called DVRs, iPods, pop up blockers, bit torrent TV, pirate radio and file sharing which they wish had never existed. Now advertising is…um…hard work when it was just supposed to be all about the parties and the three martini lunches.

How we got from someone’s logoed fingernails to martinis we do not know but it passed some time on a slow Friday at the end of a slow holiday week. See you next year.

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