brand news
Posted by Shirley Brady on March 6, 2011 05:30 PM
• CNN looks at advertising on airport bathroom mirrors (best read while listening to above).
• We missed Charlie Sheen's Ustream debut Saturday night (which was panned) be see that he was skewered on SNL (with Lindsay Lohan), planning branded merchandise and being wooed by the producer of AMC's hit Walking Dead series.
• We also see that ... AmEx is teaming up with Foursquare ... Angry Birds will integrate with Facebook next month ... CBS and Turner feature Kings of Leon in March Madness campaign ... and some classic ad icons are getting a makeover.
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star designers
Posted by Sara Zucker on November 6, 2009 01:01 PM
Though they've been in the music scene for a few albums now, it seems that Kings of Leon have officially blown up into J-Lo/Miley Cyrus/Gwen Stefani/Ben Harper territory: they are designing a clothing line. The Nashville-born family of musicians -- the band consists of three brothers and their cousin – will be collaborating with Paris-based creative collective Surface to Air on a limited-edition collection that will retail exclusively at Copenhagen boutique Paris Texas.
Since the boys received five nominations at this year’s MTV Europe Music Awards, odds are there will plenty of Denmark-bound fans to stand in line once the collection drops.Continue reading...