Here’s a big shocker of a sorts: Due to a conflict of schedules, Robert Wagner has bowed out of the iconic role of Charlie’s voice on the revamped new ABC series, Charlie’s Angels!
Which means the ever mysterious voice role for Charlie is up for grabs.
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Kim Kardashian Thinks Her Fans Are D***
Kim Kardashian is suing the clothing apparel store Old Navy, and its parent company, The Gap Inc., for using a look-alike cast member for one of its television commercials.
Kim thinks that the ads will confuse consumers into thinking that she is endorsing the store and its products.
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At one point in time, the TV commercials that ran during the Super Bowl would amaze and tickle the funny bone. Then suddenly the ads for the Super Bowl became something more as someone had the great idea to capitalize on the ads impact on the viewers. Face it, at one point they were so funny that they took on a life of their own. Heck, it’s my wife’s birthday and she wants to be home for the Super Bowl to see what ads play. (Yes, I’m lucky that way!)
But the last few years, as expectations were built up the let-down factor had been pretty high as far as I’m concerned. Hence, the pressure is on for the commercial makers to try and create something memorable. That’s the challenge anyway in creating an ad, but for the Super Bowl, ads are held to a much higher standard.
At some point, it is possible that this hoopla about the TV commercials will fade. Consider this:
With 30-second commercials in the past costing up to $2.8 million, this year’s estimates suggest that the ad-time is around $3m per 30-second spot. But if the ads don’t pay off and end up as entertainment disappointments, will this hurt the advertisers? Or will our going on and on about them give them the value they were looking for? My first guess: As we chat about them, like in this article, it helps. But the bottom line is what going to count for the advertisers dropping this kind of money on the Super Bowl.
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Twitter: Paid Tweeting
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Paid tweeting on Twitter seems lucrative, but you need to hold a special status to make the big bucks. Then again, I’m shocked at the money made per tweet!
Twitter, the time suck for some, the advantageous and random shot for web traffic and marketing for others. Many folk I know use Twitter to communicate their newest blog entries and generate traffic to their websites. That traffic becomes a source of potential income for many a website, my own included. Yet it’s how they net traffic that distinguishes websites. Twitter is but one tool.
How website owners choose to net your web traffic is up to them. They can present upfront and honest Title tweets, or they can trick you with a question that draws your curiosity in or they can just outright trick you with tweet bait that has nothing to do with anything. It’s up to the Twitter user how they want to snag your web traffic. In the end everyone wins. You get your curiosity answered, they get their much desired web traffic and with that web traffic, the potential to follow through on other money making processes on their website.
That’s the obvious way to use Twitter for a webmaster to make money. There’s also another method that is rather surprising! It’s the pay per tweet process. If you’re famous enough, you can ring in some pretty hefty fees for tweeting sponsored messages for advertisers. The most infamous of the paid tweeters, in case you had not heard, is Kim Kardashian who was reportedly earning $10k a tweet.
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Kim Kardashian is being sued for statements she made on Twitter about some sort of diet cookies.
That was going to be the impetus of my original article. That is until I found that she gets paid $10k a tweet.
What in gods name is that? That kind of money makes her simple Twitter account an incredibly valuable commodity.
Which then tells me that I need to look to Twitter with more of a jilted eye when I see some of my favored actors tweeting.
Of course, the tweets are obvious… did you see my carlsjr commercial, etc., etc..
The other moral we need to take from this is that we need to be careful of the words we choose, whether it be our own blog, Twitter account, Facebook or any number of other social networks!
sources: Examiner, THR Esq.
