SF News Twitter Launches Cheesy Ad Campaign To Explain What Twitter Is Are you part of the 90 percent of the planet that, according to Twitter, recognizes the Twitter brand? If so, are you also one of the huge number of people that, again according
SF News Edward Sharpe Gets In On The Illegal Street Graffiti Marketing Game Uh oh - @dennisherrera isn't going to like @justinbieber-esque SF @EdwardSharpe graffiti pic.twitter.com/HhpPbzlWlC— Evan Sernoffsky (@EvanSernoffsky) March 16, 2016 Perhaps hoping to get a little bit of that Bieber shine,
Arts & Entertainment Not A Joke: Local Bank Introduces Robot Greeters That Dance To 'Gangnam Style' In a highly questionable move aimed at carving a niche for themselves as a local brick-and-mortar bank, and at marketing themselves to tech people (?), Sterling Bank & Trust has "hired" two robots to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Startup Disrupts Your Day With Fake Parking Ticket Marketing Campaign You know what sucks? Walking back to your car after leaving a restaurant, only to find a #parkingticket. #mealticket pic.twitter.com/5Ry4UsUNj3— Kitchit (@Kitchit) May 18, 2015 Double check that potential parking
Arts & Entertainment [Updated] Strange Mission Door Hangers: 'Viral' Marketing Ploy Or Something Creepier? Sent in by a tipster, the door hanger to the right was reportedly hung from the doorways of "many" Mission residences this week. What's the deal, does anyone know? The only words on
Arts & Entertainment 'Money Prize Guarantee' For Anyone Who Finds These Lost Richmond District Shorts We need to help this person find their shorts! @darth @richmondsfblog pic.twitter.com/IpFwSxIA6N— CF (@cassfung) March 25, 2015 What do you think, is the above a viral marketing effort? A twee
SF News Concerned Tenant Responds To Awful NEMA Promotional Video NEMA, that luxury high-rise mammoth on Mid-Market, just released another promotional video. Oh, brother. It's not good. This one has so many white heterosexuals splashing around a sun-drenched pool, you'll need SPF 55
SF News Marketing Firm Fined $7,000 For Red Balloon Barrage Back in March, as SFist first reported, thousands of red balloons were released into the air from Yerba Buena Gardens, a stunt that was part of game release launch for Home Front. Although
SF News Dockers Update City Attorney Dennis Herrera is fighting back against Levi’s Guerrrilla marketing campaign promoting Dockers which showed up on sidewalks in the Mission and Hayes Valley yesterday: To answer Mission Mission Allan Hough’
SF News Levi's Markets Dockers On Valencia Street Using Sidewalk Graffiti Allan Hough at Mission Mission broke some startling fashion marketing news today: Levi's made a return to Valencia Street to pimp "their Dockers brand via some ugly typography and a Facebook URL." What's
SF News 2012 and <em>2012</em>: Real Sticker Graffiti or Clever Movie Marketing This sticker was spotted on a bus stop at Union and Van Ness this morning on a 2012, advertising what seems like a site with a serious discussion of Mayan mysticism, Maya-Portal.net.
misc Guerrilla Movie Marketing: Still Relevant? Has anyone else been peeved by the "Angels & Demons" graffiti marketing effort that's recently decorated the paths in Dolores Park? Doubtless some clever marketing firm who specializes in "non-traditional" or "guerrilla marketing"