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- wild, on 05/19/2008, -0/+17You know what we label you as? A Conscientious Non-Harmonizer. Or a CNH for short. You actually are a lucrative market and pretty easy to get at. Let me take a stab from the research book sitting on my desk:
- You like heavy electronic music and gothic or anarchistic overtones.
- As soon as anything gets popular, you turn on it. This is especially prominent in music and and other forms of shared entertainment.
- You read science fiction, most notably books dealing with internal society conflicts and explorations of higher humanitarian themes. Ayn Rand, The Ender's Series, and Dune are examples.
- There is a good chance at some point you have read AdBusters, which in and of itself is a carefully marketed brand at CNH.
On a side note, I promise you at least three of the brands I have done current or past work are in your home right now. And my work had some part in why you bought it over its competitors.
So by all means, attack me for doing what I do. I make a lot of money and I am ***** good at it. I sleep well at night having sold my art for profit, on a bed your anger bought me. - penguinofspades, on 05/19/2008, -0/+13site down, direct link to actual page. http://www.brandtags.net/
- wild, on 05/19/2008, -2/+15People put their personalities into a brand. Or, more exactly put, brands are tailored carefully to fit into people's personalities. Thats why there are expressions such as "brand character" and "true to the brand." A photo of a raw steak is off character for Tiffany's, so to speak. Millions go into researching and developing these brands.
This, in essence, means that marketing is our culture, and our culture is our marketing. Like it or not.
I should know. I work in marketing. - upick, on 05/19/2008, -0/+10I like the idea,
“The basic idea of this site is that a brand exists entirely in people’s heads. Therefore, whatever it is they say a brand is, is what it is.”
This kinda lost me a bit... I see brands in my head... but don't I see them the same as most people would? For example Nike, I see shoes and sporting goods... don't most people see this?? Hmmm I guess it might have a point about what I see in my head...
A little too deep from my taste - irgeorge, on 05/19/2008, -0/+8Well played.
- justinil, on 05/19/2008, -0/+8Probably because Nike's brand isn't "shoes and sporting goods". Nike's brand is (or tries to be) ... style, comfort, performance, or whatever Nike means to you. Not what they sell.
- sterntastic223, on 05/19/2008, -0/+8My favorite were the insanely negative brand tags for big brands.
- elhaf, on 05/19/2008, -1/+7I love that Hummer brings up gas guzzler and big, along with small penis and blowjob.
- BrendanM14, on 05/19/2008, -1/+7and...........the website is down.
- FoxOrian, on 05/19/2008, -0/+6Damn, that was wonderful.
Like they say, even non-conformists conform to being non-conformist. There's a market for everything. - thelastcivilian, on 05/19/2008, -0/+5So... what about Digg?
- AndrewDB, on 05/19/2008, -0/+4http://www.brandtags.net/browse.php?id=145
Is full of win. - stockdam, on 05/19/2008, -0/+4I agree with justinil. Brands are preceptons in people's heads. Think Rolls Ryce and you just don't think of cars.....you think of luxury and refinement and style. Rolls Royce couldn't easily get away with making a cheap but fun car.....that's where they'd use a different brand name but keep it miles away from the RR brand.
Branding is about trying to associate feelings with a product and goes deeper than the product itself. People will stick with "brands" and will pay more for them as they perceive them to be better. - DubbleA, on 05/19/2008, -0/+3As far as I can tell, this article links to someone's blog. Here is the man's actual site:
http://www.noahbrier.com/
And his brand tagging post:
http://www.noahbrier.com/archives/2008/05/tagging_ ...
Edit: I just found another link, this one may be more helpful:
http://www.brandtags.net/ - truenpence, on 05/19/2008, -0/+3Here are the results from Digg: http://www.brandtags.net/browse.php?id=151
- Venste, on 05/19/2008, -0/+2Mirror?
- rockandrollmark, on 05/20/2008, -0/+2"help! my penis is stuck in the toaster and this is my only form of communication!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Classy.... - tMANwi, on 05/19/2008, -1/+3CPU Quota...
Digg Effect, do I win? - azpat, on 05/19/2008, -0/+2That's really funny. I went to the site knowing that what I entered into the box was a label for the brand shown. I could see how one would think that the brand shown was a response to whatever you put in the box, except for the fact that they start the dialog by displaying a brand on load. But if you ignore the first image then you can get off by one and think that, for instance, Budweiser is a response to mental, rather than observing that mental was the label you gave to xbox 360.
- inactive, on 05/19/2008, -1/+3Bluehost + Wordpress + Digg Frontpage = Disaster
- oMeSSiaHo, on 05/19/2008, -0/+2I think this is a neat idea but the responses are very predictable. Canon=camera, Comcast=TV (as well as crap!) and so on.
- Supernova36, on 05/19/2008, -0/+2'The first thing you think of' isn't the best way of doing it, but you will have a brand association of Nike. For example subconciously you might think Nike offers better quality than Addidas, but at a higher price, or you might just associate Nike with child labour.
- tian2992, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1http://www.brandtags.net/browse.php?id=2
- Surferess, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1Hey this is cool!
- ydt89, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1Look at the one for internet explorer!!
http://www.brandtags.net/browse.php?id=186 - afterthoughtCA, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1This all makes a lot of sense.
- mistergoomba, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1but, doc... you're the one showing me all the dirty pictures
- thecosmicpope, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1As negative as BMW?
http://www.brandtags.net/browse.php?id=39 - mistergoomba, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1hilarious.. i love that 'simpsons' is ranked so highly for fox *news*
and i'm glad i'm not the only one who put 'lost' for ABC :} - inactive, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1Lolrus - some of these are enough to make an exec cry. The Taco Bell one is hilarious, diarrhea and a bunch of misspellings are among the top.
- Sil369, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1OMGz FOX NEWS http://www.brandtags.net/browse.php?id=267
LOL I think they should switch results with Wikipedia.... not
Ahh, and no entry for Bush. Darn. - fatTJ, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1lolz http://www.brandtags.net/browse.php?id=151
- chiefbandit2200, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1lol...
http://www.brandtags.net/browse.php?id=215 - rottencod, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1The Google knows everything. I can ask the Google and find an answer for almost anything. I ask "God" and I get dead air. So you tell me: what's more likely to become the all-knowing, all-powerful lord of everything there is? The Google, who already knows more information about practically everything than any mortal system should ever be trusted with, or "God," who is just some ***** a bunch of other ***** dreamed up so they didn't feel so bad about being *****?
google = god. it's a logical inevitability. - thelastcivilian, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1Thanks. I kept getting database errors when I tried to browse the various companies.
- jasdf, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1I totally put PBS for the playboy logo.
- agsinger, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1way to go bluehost, way to support my bandwidth = /
credits of this go to Noah Brier for sure, check his site @ http://noahbrier.com/ - Spoomeister, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1It's AmIHotOrNot without beautiful women. Buried.
- D4rkDrago0n, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1Lol at AOL
"CRAP" - akifbayram, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1Some people see Google as God
http://www.brandtags.net/browse.php?id=2 - akifbayram, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1Oprah brings up boring, cult, black, bitch, annoying, antichrist, big, blah blah blah blah blahblahblah bland blech bleh blowhard boobs.
This thing is GREAT! - fartbuttes, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1"Web 2.0 crowdsourcing"
ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh *head explodes* - yenta4shop, on 09/05/2008, -0/+0http://www.yenta4shop.co.uk/
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http://astore.amazon.com/conair.curling.iron-20
http://astore.amazon.com/save.on.rawlings.baseball ...
http://astore.amazon.com/buy.revlon.hair.color-20
http://astore.amazon.com/vuarnet.sunglasses.online ... - ShempRider, on 05/19/2008, -2/+2Here's an association:
"Digg"? "Crushed". - crosquillas, on 05/20/2008, -0/+0Marketing as art... now I've heard everything.
- orientis, on 05/20/2008, -1/+1Like I said, there is no justification for what you do. I'm pretty sure most evil ***** sleep pretty well at night.
I understand that marketing is effective. I understand that you can slice people into markets and play to their sensibilities, like manipulating tools inside peoples heads. That is the problem I have with what you do. You don't see a problem with it - why would you? You make a good livelihood out of it.You are destroying our culture, turning everything into shallow representations of what it used to be. Your response simply demonstrates your lack of remorse and perhaps an ignorance of the ultimate effects of your actions. Well played indeed.
Makes me wanna ***** cry. - twinsea, on 08/26/2008, -0/+0http://www.zhishibaike.cn
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