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Entries from June 2009

Friday, June 12th, 2009

BING Spot Premiered Tonight on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Tonight the BING execution premiered on The Daily Show. In each, a commercial break begins with a direct response ad for Snuggie. After a few seconds, your TV begins fast forwarding, as if it has a mind of its own. It fast forwards through the Snuggie ad, then through spots for Bosley, Cash 4 Gold [...]

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Shit! Sway, My Bad. I Didn't Know Y'all Were Live On-Air…

Thanks to everyone who texted and emailed me to get out of the shot. Here I am blowin' up Sway's spot…by accident, I swear. Once I realized, I cleared outa there, but still… Ross on MTV by accident from Ross Martin on Vimeo.

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Joe Simon = Yoda

Meet Joe Simon.  Joe is Viacom's Chief Information Officer.  If something goes wrong with your video conference or the speakerphone or your internet connection, you do not ask Joe to fix it. That's like asking a dentist to fill a cavity. Joe has people who do that stuff. Today, stuck in an all-day offsite, my [...]

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Psyched to Meet Dean Kamen Today

I'm sneaking out of this all-week offsite to meet the Benjamin Franklin of our time.       The more you read about Dean Kamen, the more inspiring he becomes.  I'm going to offer him some iced tea and hope he finds me interesting enough to sit through. Thanks to everyone for emailing great questions [...]

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

Hotel Sex (or, Trying To Find A Great Show)

Sometimes I get to the office pretty early, and someties I stay late. I have two views from my office windows. One is a stunning NJ vista, from which I would have seen the plane landing in the Hudson. The other windows in my office provide me a direct view of 100 rooms at the [...]

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Branded Entertainment