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How to subscribe to Cherryflava [3 Ways]

Posted on 30. Oct, 2009 by Jonathan Cherry.

If you’d like to take the brain work out of having to punch in our URL to get your daily dose of Cherryflava – we have a few handy subscription options that you can pick from as well:

1. You can have Cherryflava e-mailed to you daily. Neatly bound and packaged direct to your inbox. Subscribe to Cherryflava via E-mail
2. If you have an RSS reader – you can grab our feed here: Cherryflava RSS
3. We are on Twitter – follow us here

If you’d like to be added to our mailing list to get a pre-published announcement of all of your BRAND HOOLIGANS and SecondBase events – then just shoot a mail to jon@cherryflava.com to get that scoop before we publish in on the website. Tickets to these events are always limited so it’s useful to get an early heads up.

Twitter socks

Posted on 30. Oct, 2009 by Jonathan Cherry.

Geek kouse

Looking like a tattoo, NOTCOT reports that an Isreali designer is now making Twitter Follow me socks / stockings.

These socks are made for tweeting

For us it seems like a bold, blanket invitation. Next step – Facebook underpants for blokes with the words Poke me printed on them. Should sell like a treat.

More over at NOTCOT

Online concert streaming is the new frontier for rock

Posted on 30. Oct, 2009 by Jonathan Cherry.

Who would have thought that with a name like Bono he would have gone this far

Why play to an audience of thousands when you could be performing for millions online. This is the idea that has dawned on the world of rock – and they’re going hell for leather to milk the trend.

U2 recently performed live to the world from the Rose Bowl on YouTube, now…

It's Foo...not Food

…the Foo Fighters will be performing live on Facebook tonight [actually tomorrow morning South African time].

Facebook has teamed with the Foo Fighters to stream a concert live tomorrow night from the band’s Studio 606 headquarters in Los Angeles. You can RSVP to the event here, and stream it live here. [More over at Techcrunch]

A comfy sofa, cold beer, no need to queue for a nasty boerie – bandwidth aside, what’s not to love about live concerts via the web. Bring it on we say. We’ve always felt that branded content was a winner as a marketing vehicle and the reach of the Internet will make this a juicy prospect for advertisers.

Campbell has a 54 foot noodle

Posted on 29. Oct, 2009 by Cassandra.

Time Square Noodle

With the help of BBDO, New York, Campbell is showing off their massive noodle on the corner of Seventh Ave and 53rd Street in Times Square, New York.

Now, before your mind gets bombarded with dirty thoughts, calm down, it’s just a billboard.

Campbell, one of the world’s most famous soup brands, have made a 54 foot noodle [huge!] being slurped up by a mannequin in a window three stories above the billboard below featuring a bowl of chicken-noodle-soup.

This new ad was done for their 2009 “Slurp” campaign, and they think that it will be seen by about 1.5 million people. It’s meant to tie in with the fact that every can of Campbell’s chicken-noodle-soup has 32 feet of egg noodle in it.

Geez that’s a lot of noodle….somebody at their ad agency is clearly using their noodle…[as you were]

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Lovin’ our Grand Daddy Airstream trailer keyrings

Posted on 29. Oct, 2009 by Jonathan Cherry.

Our own trailer park

Promotional items are usually seriously crap. For some reason companies think that you’ll be totally over the moon to receive a stupid, useless, over-logo’ed Frisbee or coffee mug as a gift for suffering through their pathetic attempt at customer service.

This item usually ends up as a handy doggie sh*t flicker during a walk on the beach – and frankly that’s giving it credit.

So it’s with sincere glee that we play with our brand new Grand Daddy Airstream key rings. They’re made from Pewter are hand-crafted and shine up good if you polish them. As Grand Daddy groupies were stoked, but a branded miniature artwork goes a long way in our books.

[thanks Sergio]

Made by: Liv Design

Fly-vertising: What?

Posted on 29. Oct, 2009 by Cassandra.

Here’s a germ-a-phobe’s and an insect-rights activist’s worst nightmare; we’re calling it fly-vertising.

Fly-vertising is basically a mini-advertising banner attached by string to the back of a fly. As the fly travels through the air, lands, and ultimately bugs the hell out of everyone, people not only get a bit of a shock but they also get a short glimpse at the advertisement that the fly is trailing behind it.

We’re not sure who set all this up, or what the official name is [could have something to do with Eichborn?], but apparently these flies were released at a trade show somewhere in Germany.

Apart from the shock factor, we’re not sure how effective this whole thing would actually be [apart from a high fly density place like Australia that is].

But honestly, you’d have to be in doors for this phenomenon to truly be under control. AND you’d probably have to chase after the fly for about a half mile to actually see what the itty bitty advert actually said. Maybe a fly tape company could be of some service then?

Update: VW Polo did a similar ad with Ogilvy, Cape Town this year using ‘bees’. Check it out here. [Thanks Pamela]

YouTube: Fly-vertising

Website: Eichborn

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To see: Fokofpolisiekar movie

Posted on 29. Oct, 2009 by Jonathan Cherry.

If you’re a fan of South Africa’s premier in-your-face rock oufit you should do two things – keep your eyes glued to Cherryflava.com over the next week for some exciting news…and check out their movie.

For some of us it’s a toss up between this and Earth. Fluffy animals vs thrash animals…fluffy animals vs thrash animals…

Movie review: Tonight

Beautiful batteries

Posted on 29. Oct, 2009 by Jonathan Cherry.

Good enough to eat

It’s our personal opinion that products should sell themselves by looking good enough to lick.

If we saw these batteries in the Woolies till queue, they’d be in our mouth like a Chupa Chup faster than Usain Bolt runs to the toilet after a hot curry.

Play with them

It’s a bit a shame that they’re going to be hidden in the underbelly of some gadget, but guess that’s where they belong.

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Invictus movie trailer

Posted on 28. Oct, 2009 by Jonathan Cherry.

So if you haven’t seen it yet, here’s the trailer for the upcoming Clint Eastwood / Morgan Freeman / Matt Damon South African 1995 rugby world cup lovefest.

If this thing and District 9 go through to next year’s Oscars it’ll be a huge peg in the ground for South Africa as an international film industry contender.

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Previously: Invictus movie poster – Cherryflava

Kleenex GetMommed: who’s YO mama?

Posted on 28. Oct, 2009 by Cassandra.

With the North American cold and flu season almost in full swing, Kleenex and WPP have produced an ‘interesting’ new marketing campaign that offers people free online and mobile motherly love. Yes, we said motherly love [Raise eyebrows now].

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