November 19, 2007
By Gee Friedman in Events, Gee-Spot, Marketing, Retail | 2 comments
If you had had a craving for Nando’s on Tuesday, 13 November 2007, then you may have noticed that every one of their restaurants was closed on that day. You’re probably still getting over the withdrawal of not getting your peri-peri fix, so I’m sure you’d want to know who was responsible for this catastrophic [...]
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September 7, 2007
By Gee Friedman in Gee-Spot | 0 comments
Congratulations to Walda Carvalho from OMD for being the first to correctly identifying our “69″ suspect as Brad Aigner, head of Freshly Ground Insights.
Walda wins a free press release for OMD, valued at R1,500.
Other correct entries were (to name a few):
Shona Elrick - MediaCompete
Lynette Naidoo - Initiative Media
Jill Taylor - Initiative Media
Ilsa Gräbe - Starcom
Celia [...]
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September 4, 2007
By Gee Friedman in Gee-Spot | 0 comments
A top media executive has been captured on film in the middle of a “69” with two Clear Channel reps. The threesome were quite brazen about their behaviour as an unknown photographer snapped them at the AMASA Workshop “Fresh” party held in Little Switzerland last weekend. Fresh indeed!
We have yet to identify the executive, but [...]
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September 2, 2007
By Gee Friedman in Gee-Spot | 0 comments
As you read this, you’re probably sitting in a cubicle somewhere watching the clock til home time. I pity you all! Right now, my “office” is a balcony overlooking the majestic Drakensberg mountains and some valley that I don’t know the name of. Bizcommunity has seen fit to send me here for an AMASA Workshop, [...]
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August 21, 2007
By Gee Friedman in Gee-Spot | 4 comments
Lately, the biggest brands with the most money seem to be having the greatest amount of trouble hosting decent parties. Take for example last week’s LG “Play Wide” launch – great technological advancement, but poorly conveyed to the audience. I was sitting right there and I completely missed it.
In fact, I’m not even [...]
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July 25, 2007
By Gee Friedman in Gee-Spot | 1 comment
Nike Air Force 1 celebrated its 25th Anniversary on Thursday, 12 July 2007, in Commissioner Street, Jozi, and it spared NO expense. All guests were chauffeur-driven from the parking lot to the door in Hummers, were then greeted by a host of photographers fighting to take their picture on the red (grey in this case) [...]
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