AdVerve 32 - Steve Jobs' Civil War

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It would’ve felt right to also call it the A.D.D. edition because it’s all over the map topicwise. BUT WE MAKE IT WORK WITH COMMON THREADS. Who else can bridge Steven Jobs’ control freak with the Civil War? Not many. Not that many would try either. We then jump from that bridge into why boomers will never figure out Gen So What, then cap the party off with a look at how laughing out loud, well, it’s good for you AND the French. IT JUST IS.

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Topics:

00:00 – Intro
00:37 – Tech meh
01:07 – Steve Jobs’ Civil War
09:49 – Heads are out
11:42 – Angela’s Diesel rant
19:26 – Art & Copy
22:20 – Kodak, Courtney & memes
30:50 – R.I.P. SNL
31:58 – That damn war
47:31 – Insecure, much?
53:12 – France isn’t happy enough
59:37 – Wrap

Linkage:

• Steve Jobs - Valleywag exchange.
• Confederates in the Attic.
• Whips, aka, heads are out. Seriously.
• The LOL Project.
• EMPs.
• Art & Copy. 
• Courtney Love rebrands.
• Kevin Pollak as Shatner.
• The Persuaders.
• Daguerreotypes and other Civil War photographic formats.* 
• Edelman: Check-in or check-out. 
• The Tweet Museum.

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*Correction: The good gentleman from Connecticut spoke with haste. It’s silver over copper plates, not aluminum.

AdVerve - 31 - Monty Media

Aka, Social media + Scott Monty.

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Why not call it that? He’s Ford’s director of social media—they *should* name the damn thing after him. But we go beyond Twitter doncha’ kno, as we first delve into Sherlock Holmes. From there, it’s Detroit’s fascination with muscles per gallon, followed by why brands blow it when it comes to hiring for social media. (Okay, so we worked a *little* social in there. LOOK AT THE DAMN TITLE—IT’S WHAT WE DO.)

From there, we troubleshoot dealerships and the fun BP is having lately. Listen. Lather. Repeat. (Also find Scott on Twitter, Facebook and I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere.)

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Topics:

00:00 – 1. Sherlock Holmes 101

12:13 – 2. Mr. Case Study

20:18 – 3. Twitterer wanted: Inquire within

29:11 – 4. Muscle Per Gallon

40:04 – 5. Let the people decide

47:09 – 6. Desktops, dashbords & iPads

50:40 – 7. Caution: Showroom ahead

54:44 – 8. Caution: PR crisis ahead

59:42 – 9. Wrap

Linkage:

• Ford Fiesta Movement.
• American Journey 2.0.
• The Ford Story.
• Maker Faire.
• Will It Blend? Ford Fiesta.
• Sherlock Holmes trailer.
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Bartitsu.
• Guy Ritchie on The Treatment.
• Origin of Dr. Martens.
• Burger King’s Facebook “like” currency.

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AdVerve - 30 – Where My Toyotas At?

We’re about the quality rants people. Everyone gets it this week: automakers, conferences and... okay, maybe just those two groups. We actually like some things too! But the majority of the time we cover the industry’s continued fascination with the appropriation of urban culture. Word. Angela then regales with stories of conference lore and behold as denizens of drabby interiors tweet brilliance to the outside world.

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Topics:

00:00 – 1. Intro to conference hell

02:02 – 2. Where my Toyotas at?

24:58 – 3. Conference Land USA

37:42 – 4. David Lynch and internet madness

52:39 – 5. Wrap

Linkage:

• Toyota’s schwag, and some inspiration.
• Gizmodo saga.
• Gem as Jiz. (NSFW.)
• Natalie Portman (NSFW) and Adam Samberg.
• Shatner vs. Shatner.
• Toy Story 3 retro magic.
• David Lynch’s Interview Project.
• John Mayer and Dave Chappelle.

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AdVerve - 29 – Ethicalicious

It’s crisis time. Midlife. Quarterlife. We lead off there and only go scarier places. From tampon ad positioning (ouch) to journalistic ethos, nobody unturns a stone and beats its subject to death quite like us. (This would be the ongoing Gizmodo vs. iPad daddy iGod saga.)

Along the way, we factoid yo ass with stuff even we didn’t know. The prize in the cereal box is Five Minutes With...™ guest Chapin Clark of @rga Twitter fame. From there, we create new agency job descriptions —- just because we can.

All in all, it’s just another day in the AdVervehood.

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Topics:

00:00 – 1. Intro to our midlife crisis

21:08 – 2. Five minutes with...

28:38 – 3. Ethicalicious

1:00:57 – 4. Wrap

Linkage:

• Ryanair’s awesome service and employees.
• Gizmodo saga.
• What it means is.
• Some Monkees have it.

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AdVerve - 28 – Failed America Edition

Well, if we didn’t anger the gods last show, Where’s My Jetpack’s Dave Wilke helps us bat clean-up. This time out, we collectively diss the failed promise that was supposed to be a greener, cleaner Jetpack in every home. Oh, and we give Jack Bauer a little what for too. French politics and marble countertops? Well, ya just hafta listen to find out! More Dave on Twitter as well as a lotta places else!

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Topics:

00:00 – 1. Intro to a failed America

15:06 – 2. Jack Bauer saves America

23:10 – 3. Maps

28:48 – 4. Watching you

41:08 – 5. A Return To Americana

1:05:30 – 6. Wrap

Linkage:

• McDonald’s streams music.
• Jetpacks alligator break.
• christophe aguiton, kevin slavin and maps.
• V.
• Article on the iPhone.
• Gator rescue girl.
• Yahoo search share stats. (Correction to segment: Profits up while search share is slightly down.)
• TV is headed in this direction.
• Revised gator strategy: just fucking run.

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AdVerve - 27 – God’s Privacy Policy

Aaron Strout of CMO of Powered, joins us to discuss agencies of the future now, why privacy is not only an illusion but something you can’t even buy, and, oh, by the way, we save the Catholic church. No, we do, really. (Aaron can also be found on Twitter, his Quick-n-Dirty podcast and his Stroutmeister blog.)

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Topics:

00:00 – 1. Intro - agencies of the future

29:10 – 2. A little privacy please

41:15 – 3. Saving God

50:06 – 4. Something nice in YouTubetopia

Linkage:

• Nestlé Facebook culpa.
• MySpace data dump fire sale.

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AdVerve - 26 – George Parker edition

It’s George Parker—the hell ELSE you need to know. He of AdScam blog fame. Of non-Twitter fame. Of MadScam and Ubiquitous Persuaders book fame.

Normally, we do a timeline breakdown of the topics, but that wasn’t happening this time out as we cover in no order the arrogance of Apple, child labor, Modernista!, Crispin, critics, lawsuits, Domino’s pizza, Microsoft, eBay, tag sales, iPad, Will it Blend, French things, cigarette penis envy, GoDaddy and a buncha other stuff.

And we even manage to drop a few F-bombs *here and there*.

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Linkage:

• The very first flashmob. 
• Will It Blend? 
• The Most Interesting campaign.
• Old Spice campaign.
• Kohler campaign.
• Windows campaign.
• Domino’s Turnaround.
• Form and function with the iPad.

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AdVerve - 25 – Sexy time!

We didn’t intend to go where we did, WE JUST ENDED UP THERE IS ALL, OKY?. From Ricky Martin to fidelity in marriage (and Tiger Woods’ lack thereof), to copywriting jobs for adult film titles, no stone was left unturned this week.

Fear not, for some things we cover are SFW. Like Tim Burton and the idea of adapting classic books always pissing someone off. Oh, and because we have a thing for film, why do people always a foreign language in their native tongue perfectly, but just fake a bad accent? We tell you. Nobody else will, but we do. Find out why God hates people who yell during the quiet parts of songs. Oh, and we also invent a device to rid YouTube of shitty videos. (We’re looking for funding, so, email us on that.)

We also balance the narsty with the beautious, too. SO there.

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Topics:

00:00 – 1. Accents in film
06:33 – 2. Tim Burton’s House of Adaptations
14:44 – 3. Tiger Woods House of fidelity
21:15 – 4. Something nice in YouTubetopia
26:08 – 5. Chatroulette guy
29:33 – 6. What’s next
34:45 – 7. Adult movie copywriter wanted
39:34 – 8. Just apologize already
41:31 – 9. We love the Ricky Martin
43:19 – 10. God loves concerts
44:49 – 11. The Shit YouTube Video Filter Thing
46:02 – 12. Ricky Martin, part II
48:35 – 13. Fidelitus Interuptus
49:51 – 14. Wrap

Linkage:

• Bonfire of the Vanities bomb damage.
• Eric Whitacre’s Lux Aurumque.
• Adaptation.
• Alice.
• Rhea Scott, Come wander with me.
• Indiana Jones’ perfectly accented villainess.
• More Diesel Stupid.
• Talking breasts.
• Ashley Madison banned Avatar spinoff ad thing.

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AdVerve - 24 – The Lost Edition

Aka, the make-up replacement edition, not the *show* Lost. SUCKA!

We cover it all: Monkey AIDS conspiracy theories. Warren Buffet’s dance of love. Bob Garfield’s comments of... whatever they are. Angela then breaks down the difference between American and French dogs. Both it seems, need a certain degree of therapy.

We also recap Parisian tech conference techness and why your privacy is an illusion—and why people still don’t care. Five Minutes With... features Aaron Strout, CMO of Powered. (On Twitter too.) We also mange to get the show in under an hour, based on our crowdsourced fan poll. (Gonna try to do a 30-minute show sometime. No promises; WE'RE GONNA TRY.)

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Topics:

00:00 – 1. French dogs
03:23 – 2. Lostcast
04:47 – 3. Annie Vuitton
07:08 – 4. Tech, crunched
10:49 – 5. Fun with AIDS conspiracies
14:53 – 6. All the Wiki that’s fit to print
18:29 – 7. Bowie vs. Gervais
20:11 – 8. Chatroulette Piano Guy
22:36 – 9. Welcome to Google World™
24:15 – 10. The *other* B.G.
30:38 – 11. Evil Nestlé and animal testing
42:13 – 12. Ben Stiller’s new shitty movie
43:34 – 13. Five Minutes With... Aaron Strout
48:35 – 13. Privacy? HA!

Linkage:

• Bowie vs. Gervais.
• AIDS conspiracy.
• Annie Vuitton.
• Chatroulette Piano Guy & Ben Folds
• The *other* B.G.
• Evil Nestlé.
• The Timeless Way of Building.
• GEICO Warren Buffett.
• Ben Stiller’s new shitty movie.

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