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Beer commercials and national culture

Beer commercials are life. The Super Bowl means a lot of things: another year of sorrow for Cleveland Browns fans, another run on avocados for guacamole, and another series of Budweiser ads. Budweiser uses its long association with the NFL and huge Super Bowl ad buy to make a statement, and usually it is that… [Read More]

Startup Culture, Company Culture, City Culture

One of the panels at NOEW 2015 was about culture, but it was less about company culture than about using information about a culture to design and market products. The presenters were from Peter Mayer, a local advertising agency that works with companies in the New Orleans region, especially to help them reach national markets…. [Read More]

The Interview, the First Amendment, and Cultural Sensitivity

 In the original Naked Gun movie – remember that? – Ayatollah Khomeini, Mikhail Gorbachev, Yasser Arafat, Muammar Gaddafi, Fidel Castro, and Amin conspire to have Reggie Jackson assassinate the Queen of England. Was everyone up on arms about the sensibilities of respected national leaders like Muammar Gaddafi and Elizabeth Alexandria Mary Mountbatten-Windsor? Nope. They recognized… [Read More]

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