Crispin Porter + Bogusky buys a daddy
June 11, 2009
Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Colorado’s largest advertising agency, said Thursday it has acquired Daddy, a Swedish digital agency, in a move to expand its European operations. States the Denver Business Journal
Then Mr. “I sell 3000 calorie Whoppers for Burger King, but I have a diet book” states “”We believe that digital is at the center of everything going forward,” Alex Bogusky, Boulder-based co-chairman of CP+B, said in a statement. “We’ve made digital the focus of our U.S. business, and with the acquisition of Daddy, it will now be the center of CP+B Europe as well. We’ve worked with Daddy a bunch over the past three years and are continually amazed at how smart they are.”
Well good for them, they still launch websites without Metas and Titles, I guess that is what the problem is with the definition of Digital Advertising.
Clock still ticking until CP+B goes into digital advertising, it’s only 2009, a full 15 years after this hit mainstream, because clearly we have seen your work.
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Burger King Launches “Klingon” ad - no Klingons in Star Trek Movie
May 6, 2009
EDIT: We make no apologies for the headline, there are no Klingons in the star trek movie…. we just got back from it… the Burger King ad is bad.
We don’t really know what to say about this, the Klingon are not even part of the new Star Trek movie in any large extent yet Burger King and their Advertising Agency of record Crispin Porter + Bogusky feel that their role, however minor (limited to a gun battle or so), in the new movie deserves to have it’s own 30 second spot. We found this on Media Bistro / Agency Spy
Tribble Ad Agency was of course named after the Star Trek episode, Trouble with Tribbles so of course as die hard trekkies we sort of look at these things more… but all the well Klingons historically have been the bad guys…. so this appears to be more geared to the die hards like ourselves.
We received some reports that the movie does involve some kinds of battles and/or a war and that “Klingon soldiers” play a part in the film…. but that part is minor….
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Crispin Porter + Bogusky to make more shit ads for Microsoft
March 27, 2009
Microsoft has hired Crispin Porter + Bogusky (again) to attack Apple in new ads that portray Macs as too expensive compared to Windows. The problem is that Windows machines are too expensive compared to Linux machines.. the reason all these Netbooks are sold with Linux is because Microsoft products were too expensive.. Nothing like the pot calling the kettle black.
Seriously Microsoft, you need a new ad agency, Crispin Porter + Bogusky is just not cutting it for you.. with multiple failures in a row.. prime example Jerry and Bill … Microsoft is just wasting their money with these guys… float a review… because trust us on that. You don’t want to say that Microsoft is cheaper when all these Netbooks are being sold with Linux because Microsoft is too expensive.
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Crispin throws employees under the bus - literally
February 12, 2009
From reports sent to us by former Crispin Porter + Bogusky employees, plans to still include Domino’s pizza on demand, free snowboard rentals and “disruptive thinker travel” in the form of a Wi-Fi-equipped biodiesel company bus that runs regular routes around Boulder. These expensive projects will continue, but not for the 60 people fired from the advertising agency as we reported on the 5th.
Crispin Porter + Bogusky has not replied to our request for the costs associated with with the pizza on demand, free snowboard rentals and the apparently expensive Wi-Fi-equipped biodiesel bus and if jobs and family livelihoods were sacrificed to keep those perks.
That’s the bus, and under it you will see their employees… read the note on the coffee cup the Colorado Independent took at Crispin Porter + Bogusky’s HQ in Colorado.
threw their employees under the bus - literally.
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Ad Agency CP+B mails out 60 pink slips
February 5, 2009
Ad Agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky has laid off 60 of it’s employees noting the economy is bad according to Media Bistro These 60 employees are just a fraction of what’s happening overall in the economy. As hundreds of thousands of Americans are thrown out into the street each week, 10 million of us are sitting on unemployment.
What CP+B did is exactly what virtually every company has been doing, firing their staff in an effort to stay alive during this depression.
From their e-mail “we hope that we will not have to do this again.” … notice it’s not a promise… not even close. It’s a rough economy out there people, these 60 staffers will be dumped into a job market rife with double digit unemployment. Meaning their chances of finding a new job with similar pay are slim to none for quite an extended period of time.
His biggest problem is he’s coding websites in HTML….
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Crispin Porter + Bogusky launches blue screen of death T-Shirts for Microsoft
December 10, 2008
We don’t even know where to start, right after Crispin Porter + Bogusky announced a new T-Shirt line for Microsoft, the first thing a handful of commentesr noticed was that Geek.Com published a blue shirt with Microsoft on it… already driver errors and blue screen of death jokes started hitting the web…. reminded us of this video regarding the Blue screen of death and Bill Gates.. (T-shirt photo below video)
Great Stuff…
And here’s the T-Shirt
Blue Screen of Death
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New Microsoft Ads are a waste of Bandwidth
October 10, 2008
New Microsoft ads are a waste of bandwidth. After the Jerry Seinfeld disaster and now this…if CP+B made this… I think some answers are required… again if they are the ones that created it… they are however their agency of record.. who created it? was it Crispin Porter + Bogusky? Was it some other agency? Was it internal? Inquiring minds want to find out.
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Crispin Porter + Bogusky Bill Gates / Jerry Seinfeld ads NOT canceled — new ad campaign already started “I’m a PC”
September 18, 2008
Crispin Porter + Bogusky told Gizmodo that the ads with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld are NOT canceled, then CP+B proceeded to float their new “I’m a PC ad online” thanks agency spy
CP+B we hate issuing retractions like this.. next time please let us know the facts?
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Microsoft Cancels Crispin Porter + Bogusky Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfield ads
September 17, 2008
Recently we noted that Microsoft needs to cancel the Bill Gates / Jerry Seinfield ads created by advertising agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky. As the effect we found with some research is .. well… they were not showing a better face for Microsoft, but rather were putting them even more out of touch.
In short, Microsoft fired Jerry Seinfield. It’s unknown what the fate will be of Crispin Porter + Bogusky
After blowing literally 10 million paying Jerry Seinfield, several million more to CP+B.. the ads turned out to be as we noted earlier, a flop.
We are now hearing that Microsoft is going to cancel the ads via an announcement tomorrow.
The ads were a flop…. and Microsoft is just under 20 million in the hole in hard costs, and some say much much more in a PR flap. Crispin Porter + Bogusky also had their nose bloodied as we were told they sold the concept to Microsoft.
Edit: Evidently Valleywag has the same sources we do.
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C|NET to Crispin Porter + Bogusky : Bill Gates is no George Costanza
September 12, 2008
When C|Net starts slamming the Crispin Porter + Bogusky advertising agency ads.. then you know something is really wrong. This ad, New Family - Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfield is already being slammed as a failure. Here is the Ad in Question, and the honest C|Net article afterwards.
This series should be pulled and discontinued.. it’s not giving the desired effect.
The Bill Gates-Jerry Seinfeld ad series is back for its second installment and after watching the latest commercial, I’m not nearly as impressed as I was by the first.
My dislike for this commercial has nothing to do with the content. (I still think that mentioning Vista and talking about the product is a mistake at this juncture because Microsoft needs to paint itself as a more likable company.) Instead, I don’t like this ad because it paints Gates as the geeky rich man that he is. And for an ad that’s trying to change a company’s image, that’s unacceptable.
ouch …
Honestly… we liked this 30 second spot much better:
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