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Sony May Singe Itself: Slimy Innuendo Ignites Backdraft

September 2, 2010 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

September 2, 2010 Without a doubt, guerrilla marketing campaigns can be effective disruptors as well as clever marketing and teaching tools for advertising AND media literacy. But what happens when “attention” trumps common sense and branding ethics like this Sony  ambient ad campaign? Its proliferation is akin to the “Captive” audience billboard debacle awhile back. As … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: accountability, adolescent angst, Alloy, ambient advertising, behavioral cues, branding, branding-youth, Captive audience, commodification, Consuming kids, corporate social responsibility, digital media, FCC, FTC, goofball guy movies, Gossip Girl, influencers, interactive marketing, Isis, ISIS Advocates for Youth, Kids health, Kmart, mean girls, Media-Influence-Kids, media-literacy, preteens, Pretty Little Liars, product engagement, product integration, Scarleteen, sex sells, sexuality, shock schlock, Sony, Sony fail, teen pregnancy, teens, The Virginity Hit, toxic media, virginity, virgins
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