Parker Persuades, Paul Parodies, Arnell Undressed, Pizza Twittered

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– George Parker is out with his new book; The Ubiquitous Persuaders. Buy it now!

Moo Tags. Yea, me too.

Here are five must-have ingredients for any Steven Segal movie. It promotes the recent release of one of his DVDs. He still makes movies?

– Here’s a parody of The New York Times Weekender commercial featuring Paul Rudd.

– And yes, like everyone else, we have to air Arnell Groups dirty laundry in the form of their hyper-pretentious, buzz word-happy, brand blather-filled brief for the work it did on the new Pepsi logo. Please Arnell, tell us the whole thing was a joke and you’re all laughing at us now. Please?

– So what’s Twitter good for? Just like the internet was at it’s birth: ordering pizza. More precisely, getting $2 off Milwaukee-based Meglio Pizza.

– Here’s a creepy Target commercial featuring a very large-eyed doll.

– To promote the launch of their Fragile Earth Series, London TV channel Eden floated an artistic rendering of a polar bear on an iceberg in the Thames.

– Missy likes to swear.

– As if it were another era, Carl’s Jr. leaves Paris Hilton behind and goes green.

– AdWeek has relaunched its social network, At the Roundtable, on the Ning platform and renamed it AdweekMedia Connect.

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