Tuesday, 3 July 2007

All is not well with Malibu

Many brands including Dove, Doritos and Heinz have held user-generated ad' contests. Some even featured on the Superbowl ad' breaks this year (the most expensive ad space around). It appears though that Malibu have been rumbled and in a contest have selected their own professional work. More here.

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I am director of the Media and Persuasive Communication (MPC) network at Bangor University where I also lecture on political-economy of the media. I am currently working on a book provisionally titled Deconstructing Privacy for Peter Lang and leading two empirical projects in connection with privacy perception and the use of new media for smoking cessation. I am author of Creativity and Advertising: Affect, Events and Process (Routledge, 2013); The Mood of Information: A Critique of Behavioural Advertising (Continuum, 2011); and Digital Advertising (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2009). Please contact me at mcstay@bangor.ac.uk if you are interested in Ph.D supervision or consultancy services.