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The Ultimate Product Placement: 321 Water makes the leap from SMART 100 to…The Hunger Games?!
Sure enough, audiences flocking to see the futuristic teen blockbuster, which has been raking in revenues right and left, were able to verify a cameo appearance by the water container in the sleek, hyper-sanitary control room scenes of the film. 321 Water founder Gretha Oost, who has not yet seen the film, said she was “blown away” when she heard about the sighting.
Facebook’s noble role as an intelligence-gathering tool for the CIA
Facebook has so many marvelous, fun uses. But, as everyone agrees, the best thing about the social media behemoth is its incredible success as an intelligence-gathering tool for the CIA. In this video by those tireless satirists at The Onion, we marvel over how the government has convinced us that coughing up truckloads of personal information is fun.
If you’re running a lean startup that’s looking for 1% of the market and want to go viral, this video is for you.
Last month we shared Sh*t people say in Silicon Valley, which inluded my favourite line, “Who has a party in Palo Alto?” And as we’re never ones to let a good video go past us without sharing it, we give you, Sh*t Entrepreneurs Say. If you’re running a lean startup that’s looking for 1% of the market and want to go viral, this video is for you.
Anthill’s definitive best (Go Ferris!) and worst (Oh, Elton?) of Super Bowl commercials 2012
Call it a cliche. Call it gratuitously opportunistic. Call it what you will. But we know that whenever we run a post featuring a new, popular or funny commercial, your clicking fingers get awfully itchy. (Don’t deny it. We have the stats to prove it.) Hence, here they are, the best and worst of the Super Bowl ads for 2012 (according to Anthill).
What’s the most inspiring thing anyone has ever said to you?
At Anthill HQ, we like to think that we’ve been responsible for the occasional inspiring quote. We certainly like to share the rare and spontaneous moments of others, when business leaders and creative thinkers bring a new idea or way of thinking into the world. Watch and listen carefully. These inspirational words will change your life. Maybe.
Ferris Bueller: The Sequel? (Matthew Broderick chucks a sickie)
Clearly crafted to appeal to the maturing Gen X market, this Honda ad has been released as an an attempt to score a pre-Super Bowl touchdown. While traditional advertising budgets are decreasing, Super Bowl advertising costs are on the rise — not because of the vast number of people who watch ‘the game’ but because of the even vaster number who share the ‘made to be viral’ clips.
Sh*t people say in Silicon Valley
You’ve no doubt heard of the Twitter meme @shitmydadsays. You may have seen Shit People Say on Facebook. But we’re guessing that you’ve never even contemplated checking out Shit White Girls Say to Black Girls or Shit People Say to Tattooed People. The YouTube meme seems to have no limit. And we think that’s great, otherwise we wouldn’t have this clip to intro. Roll tape.
Heavy-metal sensation, 8-year-old Juliet of Queensland, rocks our socks off
Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead is 66 years old. James Hetfield of Metallica is 48. Never too old for rock ‘n’ roll, right?
Or, apparently, too young. Welcome to the heavy-metal pantheon, Juliet Childs — a product of Queensland, all of 8 years old, and a bonafide music sensation.
A bunch of accountants drop the spreadsheets and pick up the beat, flash-mob style
You’ve seen better flash mobs than this. We’ve seen better. But here’s what makes this video, done for a corporate end-of-the-year meeting, so awe-inspiring: These are accountants. Accountants. Wow. They can do our books anytime.
An awesome method for solving office disputes: Invoke your inner Pikachu
An unfortunately high percentage of us have been in this position — a dustup with an office colleague, often triggered by one person touching another person’s refrigerated food inappropriately. But how best to mediate these disagreements? Do the words “Pokemon trainer” ring a bell? Psy-attack!
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