Comments on: Bad, AMC, bad. BAD! http://blog.3rdmartini.com/bad-amc-bad-bad/ ephemeral words for creative readers Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:45:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Leif Wells http://blog.3rdmartini.com/bad-amc-bad-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-37350 Leif Wells Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:50:46 +0000 http://blog.3rdmartini.com/?p=685#comment-37350 What do you expect from a company who started out bragging about not having any commercials and then couldn't find a way to make things work out without going to commercials? The day they went with commercials was the day I stopped watching. Seriously. I have not watched that channel in over six years. What do you expect from a company who started out bragging about not having any commercials and then couldn't find a way to make things work out without going to commercials? The day they went with commercials was the day I stopped watching. Seriously. I have not watched that channel in over six years.

]]> By: Leif Wells http://blog.3rdmartini.com/bad-amc-bad-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-38424 Leif Wells Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:50:46 +0000 http://blog.3rdmartini.com/?p=685#comment-38424 What do you expect from a company who started out bragging about not having any commercials and then couldn't find a way to make things work out without going to commercials? The day they went with commercials was the day I stopped watching. Seriously. I have not watched that channel in over six years. What do you expect from a company who started out bragging about not having any commercials and then couldn't find a way to make things work out without going to commercials? The day they went with commercials was the day I stopped watching. Seriously. I have not watched that channel in over six years.

]]> By: 3rdmartini http://blog.3rdmartini.com/bad-amc-bad-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-37348 3rdmartini Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:23:09 +0000 http://blog.3rdmartini.com/?p=685#comment-37348 Interestingly enough on the drive into the city this morning my (silly lawyer) wife and I were discussing how there had begun to be too many of the characters on Twitter. Guess that problem got solved.<br><br>They certainly should have hired those Twitterers. Those people had the characters down pat and were doing a hell of a job extending a brand beyond anything that AMC obviously could have dreamed of. Interestingly enough on the drive into the city this morning my (silly lawyer) wife and I were discussing how there had begun to be too many of the characters on Twitter. Guess that problem got solved.

They certainly should have hired those Twitterers. Those people had the characters down pat and were doing a hell of a job extending a brand beyond anything that AMC obviously could have dreamed of.

]]> By: 3rdmartini http://blog.3rdmartini.com/bad-amc-bad-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-38423 3rdmartini Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:23:09 +0000 http://blog.3rdmartini.com/?p=685#comment-38423 Interestingly enough on the drive into the city this morning my (silly lawyer) wife and I were discussing how there had begun to be too many of the characters on Twitter. Guess that problem got solved.<br><br>They certainly should have hired those Twitterers. Those people had the characters down pat and were doing a hell of a job extending a brand beyond anything that AMC obviously could have dreamed of. Interestingly enough on the drive into the city this morning my (silly lawyer) wife and I were discussing how there had begun to be too many of the characters on Twitter. Guess that problem got solved.

They certainly should have hired those Twitterers. Those people had the characters down pat and were doing a hell of a job extending a brand beyond anything that AMC obviously could have dreamed of.

]]> By: Adrian Ho http://blog.3rdmartini.com/bad-amc-bad-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-37347 Adrian Ho Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:37:15 +0000 http://blog.3rdmartini.com/?p=685#comment-37347 This is sad, really they should have hired those twitterers, I thought it was a genius move, although I have to admit it got a bit overdone after a little while This is sad, really they should have hired those twitterers, I thought it was a genius move, although I have to admit it got a bit overdone after a little while

]]> By: Adrian Ho http://blog.3rdmartini.com/bad-amc-bad-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-38422 Adrian Ho Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:37:15 +0000 http://blog.3rdmartini.com/?p=685#comment-38422 This is sad, really they should have hired those twitterers, I thought it was a genius move, although I have to admit it got a bit overdone after a little while This is sad, really they should have hired those twitterers, I thought it was a genius move, although I have to admit it got a bit overdone after a little while

]]> By: jenny http://blog.3rdmartini.com/bad-amc-bad-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-37345 jenny Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:22:02 +0000 http://blog.3rdmartini.com/?p=685#comment-37345 kind of like when Coca-Cola tried to stop the Diet Coke and Mentos viral videos - until thankfully someone in branding got a hold of their paranoid legal dept and slapped some sense into them. The damage was done, though - those in the biz just laughed and said, "Yep, Coke is as stodgily clueless as ever." kind of like when Coca-Cola tried to stop the Diet Coke and Mentos viral videos - until thankfully someone in branding got a hold of their paranoid legal dept and slapped some sense into them. The damage was done, though - those in the biz just laughed and said, “Yep, Coke is as stodgily clueless as ever.”

]]> By: jenny http://blog.3rdmartini.com/bad-amc-bad-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-38421 jenny Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:22:02 +0000 http://blog.3rdmartini.com/?p=685#comment-38421 kind of like when Coca-Cola tried to stop the Diet Coke and Mentos viral videos - until thankfully someone in branding got a hold of their paranoid legal dept and slapped some sense into them. The damage was done, though - those in the biz just laughed and said, "Yep, Coke is as stodgily clueless as ever." kind of like when Coca-Cola tried to stop the Diet Coke and Mentos viral videos - until thankfully someone in branding got a hold of their paranoid legal dept and slapped some sense into them. The damage was done, though - those in the biz just laughed and said, “Yep, Coke is as stodgily clueless as ever.”

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