OMG! Company Makes Media Buy! Becomes News Story!

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A company makes a 12-month media buy and it passes as news worthy of publishing. We passed on the press release yesterday figuring, oh, who the hell wants to read about a company that just made a media buy? That’s like sending out a press release when an agency holds a traffic meeting. MediaPost didn’t pass on it and features it as it’s first story in its Online Media Daily newsletter. We’re not even going to mention the details because you can read all about it over at MediaPost..

Even funnier is the byline on the story. It took two entire human beings to make this story happen. OK, OK, they did make a phone call to one of the company’s CEOs. Apparently, one person had to dial the number while the other asked the questions. OK, OK, 12 month online media commitments aren’t common. OK, OK, supposedly it’s a lot of money. Whatever. We have a traffic meeting to attend. Oh wait. We have to send out a release first. OK, now we can go. Later.

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