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The Snoop Olympic Rorschach Test

Look at this picture and what do you see?

  1. An abuse of Olympic IP undermining the TOP commercial model?

Or

  1. What happens when you let creators spread the Olympic message to a vast and non traditional sports audience? Done with wit and a sense of fun, which are not words often associated with the Olympics and/or the IOC.

While we’re on Olympic marketing, is there a more annoying thing in sport than the IOC’s Visa exclusivity clause, which precludes everyone else from buying stuff without fannying around with prepaid Visa cards.

Reward Visa customers, but don’t

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Variety reports on the pressure to get brands in to the live feed. A story as old as advertising has existed.

Whether this is a story or a non-story rests on whether you think the media side has the strength of will to defend the integrity of the product now.

We're in a weird time, when nobody is happy. TV viewers, sports fans, music buyers...everyone is pushing back on the over- commercialisation of their thing.

Just this week, we've had the same story appear in a different guise, this time on cringeworthy product placement in Netflix's hot rabbi romcom:

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