Double Cheeseburgers Flapping in the Wind

...Is the title of my most recent post on Karsh\Hagan's blog. Curious? Check it out.

In the 21st Century no one can hear you advertise

With the onslaught of "new media" solutions being developed by ad agencies blurring the line between agencies and places like Disney, Google and Apple, are ad agencies really just that-advertising agencies? Are they something more? Something less? Creative companies? Is it all just semantics? I ponder these thoughts a little bit over at Karsh\Hagan's blog, give it a read and chime in with your thoughts.

Tonights news brought to you by: McDonalds

Viewers of KVVU's morning show in Las Vegas have been seeing McDonalds iced coffees on the anchors desk lately. It's part of a deal that Karsh / Hagan worked out, and it'll be interesting to see what sort of results it gets. According to the NYT article, the achors rarely interact with the cups. If there was a negative story abot McDonalds the editor said he would pull the cups, but what about just plain negative stories?

"Five people were shot today. In other news, this new iced coffee is delicious!"

There are no plans to expand the product placement to regular newscasts, but if this works I can only imagine we'll see more stations begin pushing the boundaries between facts and ads.

Do you think this will work?

(via New York Times)

New Karsh / Hagan Site: I report, You Decide

You might remember a post from a few days ago about the new Karsh / Hagan site. I liked it, but it appears the Denver Egotist is not a big fan, to say the least. So let's settle this the good old fashioned web way with a completely unscientific poll:

Opinion Polls & Market Research

New Karsh / Hagan site looks pretty good

Denver ad agency Karsh / Hagan has new site up and I like it.

...Oh, you'd like a better description than that? Well, for starters it loads quickly. I'm sick of agency sites with 30 or even 10 second load times. They're rarely ever worth the wait since once it does load you're subject to a masturbation of flash capabilities: "Look what I can do". But I digress.

So Karsh / Hagan has kept it simple and clean and it's all easy to navigate and read (text so big even a blind person could read it). So what are you waiting for? Go check it out!
(via Create and Connect)

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