Why Milk’s PMS Campaign Went Sour

Over the past few weeks, a bold campaign by the California Milk Processor Board, featuring men as suffering victims of PMS-crazed women and milk as the cure, has become the latest poster child for brands using shock and awe to generate online conversation at any cost. If controversy is its own reward, the campaign was a smashing success. But since the campaign, and its spiritual home at everythingidoiswrong.org, was hastily shuttered late last week, it seems very forgiving to call it a smash hit, doesn’t it?

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Best Buy vs. Employee: the YouTube Scuffle Continues

Ah, satire in the age of instant communication. One big box brand doesn't quite get the joke. As good as social media's been for Best Buy (see: @Twelpforce, a continued success), they're fast finding out how real things can get when their internal policies don't line up with their ostensibly progressive, tech-conscious reputation. We're talking about an employee of theirs, who since being pressured into quitting his job over a couple measly, unbranded YouTube videos, has hit back with a new video roasting the retailer in a similarly anonymous fashion. If consumers can control brands these days, then employees can bring them to their knees.
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