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Twitter is really really great.....for porn!

1225254 — Mon, 04 May 2009 11:15:00 GMT

In the brilliant musical Avenue Q, Kate and the Trekkie Monster sing about the internet."There's always some new site....for porn, I browse all day and night....for porn, I'm surfing at the speed of light...for porn." You get the idea.

Last week, my Twitter updates informed me I was being followed by Louise, Now, I know a Louise and when I checked her profile it didn't look like the Louise I know. Either that or she has grown her hair, dyed it very blonde and found herself to be struggling to make ends meets with more conventional work.

Louise was followed by Imogene (Thursday), Ava (Friday), Imelda and Jody (Sunday) before Jami (Monday). Unfortunately, tucked in the middle of them was Jessica (Saturday) who I assumed was another lady offering favours, but in fact works for a PR agency we're talking to. Sorry Jess.

Maybe I should feel flattered to have such attractive and generous women wishing to follow me everywhere. But it is getting a little tiresome and I fear they are not really interested in my bike ride to Wycombe.

A web guru I admire once told me that if you REALLY want to know how to use the web effectively, study what the porn operators do. They are the first to trial any technique and learn how to best manipulate it. They test, refine and roll out with a degree of professionalism that would shame most direct marketers. It's no surprise they are amongst the first to exploit Twitter commercially,

Unfortunately, they taint what they touch and devalue the medium. Already touted as the perfect tool for stalkers, the increasing number of bogus followers could destroy Twitter's, as yet undiscovered, potential as a marketing medium before it ever got going.

How do you market a porno film?

255762 — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:16:00 GMT

Not a real porno film, but Kevin Smith's new raunchy romcom the title of which, 'Zack and Miri Make a Porno', which is causing a marketing nightmare for the Weinstein Company with newspapers, cable and TV channels refusing to run ads.

'Zack and Miri Make a Porno', which tells the sweet story of how some broke friends get together and try to make a buck or two out of making a porn movie, has been having a tough time of it. It has been rated R (under 17 requires an accompanying parent or adult guardian) having first been given a NC-17 rating (no one under 17), which is pretty much movie death but was over turned on appeal by Kevin Smith.

The Motion Picture Association of America then banned the US poster featuring stars Elizabeth Banks and Seth Rogen. It had the pair standing side-by-side with their opposing heads pasted over their crotches.

Hardly offensive and the Canadians let it run. So go Canada. This all led Smith to despair on his My Boring-Ass Life blog:

"Our frustration in getting an MPAA approval on the American poster led to last-resort ideas about showcasing dopey, simple images instead of risque pics of our leads - which, in turn, led to what’s now the official American poster for the flick…"

The film's posters have faced protests in Boston where their placement on bus shelters and city buses was called "totally inappropriate". The posters were banned in Philadelphia before they could even appear. With the city's deputy mayor saying: "Zack and Miri can make a porno, but not on my bus shelter."

The Wall Street Journal says that after receiving viewer complaints about an ad that aired during a LA Dodgers' baseball game in September, News Corp.'s FSN Prime Ticket cable channel refused to run more ads. Fox television network has also refused to run the 30-second spots as have more than 15 newspapers and a number of other TV and cable channels and those that have taken the cash have opted to abbreviate the title to 'Zack and Miri.

It is not the first time Smith's films have caused a stink. 'Dogma' his all star (Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, Chris Rock, Salma Hayek, Alan Rickman, Linda Fiorentino) cast film took a pop at the Catholic church that caused a mini storm in America and hit the movie with Christians demonstrating against it. It annoyed the Catholic League (due to a reference about the Virgin Mary having post-Jesus sex with Joseph) and Smith received over ten thousand pieces of protest/hate mail and three death threats.

After the controversy surrounding Dogma, Smith said he wanted to make a movie that couldn't be attacked for its content, well he did that three times (none of which have been a touch on his best film 'Chasing Amy') with mixed results (remember the post-Gigli Bennifer movie 'Jersey Girl' – ouch).

Smith, who loves a smutty *** joke or ten, had to know when he started his new film that the title would cause a stink bomb size smell. After not great performances at the box office with 'Jersey Girl' or 'Clerks II' he is hoping the hullabaloo helps.

"If anything, the controversy might help us pick up a wider audience, simply by virtue of the fact that people have been talking about it so much"

What is so interesting is that despite the economic downturn so many people are refusing to take the advertising.

The film looks very funny and I don't expect that when its UK release rolls around that there will be any furore in the UK, but I could be wrong.

What do you think?

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Peta puts Jenna Jameson in ad talking about sex

255762 — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:11:00 GMT

Animal charity Peta has another bunch of ads out recently and they all more or less have one thing in common. The latest features adult super star Jenna Jameson (with more on than usual) and they have her talking about sex. Go grab those headlines.

You've probably noticed it as well, it isn't just Jenna Jameson. There is a theme to Peta's attention grabbing headlines. They've used Pamela Anderson in the past and last week they had the US sports star Amanda Beard with even less clothes on than usual (she is a swimmer), whom they describe as the "sexiest and most compassionate US Olympic athlete of all time. Need proof? Check out the anti-fur ad that she did-naked-for Peta".

It's like Peta's ad department is run spin off from a lad's mag, I mean just read that last sentence and the emphasis on the word "naked". They must sit around thinking "who would we really like to get in here (naked)". Jenna Jameson, obviously sprang to mind.

This week it is the world's most famous porn star or "adult film icon" Jenna Jameson, who apparently might be pregnant.

In Jenna Jameson's ad for Peta, the porn star is talking about birth control. Not for humans, dummy, for animals. See it's a gag. You get Jenna Jameson, the world's most famous porn star, and you get her to talk about "animal birth control" or ABC as they call it. Who would have guessed animals practice birth control. Do you think they are Catholics?

Jenna Jameson poses nude alongside the tagline "Sometimes Too Much Sex Can Be a Bad Thing". Boom boom. Clear those people from the aisles right now.

There is a serious side to this campaign: every year, nearly 7m dogs and cats are abandoned at animal shelters in the US, and the shelters are forced to put almost half of these animals down because they can't be given good homes.

"The good news is that you can help as Jenna Jameson has-and you don't even have to take your clothes off! It's as easy as ABC: animal birth control."

Apparently if you get your pet spayed or neutered we can end the animal overpopulation crisis.

"Until dogs and cats can go on the pill or wear condoms, we need to help them practice safe sex-by spaying and neutering," says Jenna Jameson. "Millions of homeless animals are turned in to shelters every year because there simply aren't enough good homes for them all. The answer is as easy as ABC: Animal Birth Control, which means get your Fido or Fluffy fixed!"

I'm just trying to work out who is going to feature in Peta's next ad campaign. Is Traci Lords available? The criteria seems to be looking good undressed (and all that does is remind me of a Lloyd Cole song: Undressed).

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