contrary marketing » humour http://blog.carllyons.com dealing with digital disruption Sat, 02 May 2009 09:23:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Twitter ye not http://blog.carllyons.com/2009/03/02/twitter-ye-not/ http://blog.carllyons.com/2009/03/02/twitter-ye-not/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:37:13 +0000 carl http://blog.carllyons.com/?p=227 ** This blog has moved. Please bookmark http://www.contrarymarketing.com/blog/ **

Doonesbury March 2nd

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Is there nowhere the Top Gear brand can’t go?
Full marks for lateral opportunism and carrying through their trademark irreverent wit

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As Britain gets giddy with it’s once-a-decade proper snowfall, it’s nice to see enterprising brands having fun and creating free marketing.

Here’s a snow sofa (or ‘snofa’) created by mydeco in Hyde Park.

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And Innocent Drinks are joining in the spirit by publicising a Twitter snowball fight
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Looks like this joke from the IT Crowd kinda came true today when they flagged the whole internet as badware

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