<![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:36:35 EDT Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:36:35 EDT http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1717246 Trackback

]]> 33:268624:c1717246 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:36:35 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1680885 Nothing like getting Blatzed.

Raul23

]]> 33:268624:c1680885 Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:52:32 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1665976 I feel/smell a Zune/Zima dual relaunch!

NickEddy

]]> 33:268624:c1665976 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:35:12 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1664830 @maura

no not seriously

parrotrunner

]]> 33:268624:c1664830 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:46:16 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1664561 PBR is still the choice beverage for midwestern hipsters.

I think the Zune parties should boast 40s of Steel Reserve and Cobra. THAT would be a party.

Twilly

]]> 33:268624:c1664561 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:21:58 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1664008 @mike a: agreed. yuengling in a can is not only drinkable, but dangerously delicious.

kiteless

]]> 33:268624:c1664008 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:32:26 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1663496 I know! Zune should form a partnership with Burnlounge and have one big douche-off!

MC

]]> 33:268624:c1663496 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:43:55 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1663229 went to party at a friends store recently, and get this, we played guitar hero. They had zune stickers on the storefront outside, zune cups inside, and a zune bracket sheet for keeping score during the guitar hero tourny. At first i figured that zune sent my friend all this stuff in the course of his regular business. Then some guy whips out his zune, and asks me if I have "ever seen one of these?" I told him i had, and that I have heard universally bad things about it. When he got very defensive, asking me where I heard these things, etc...etc...I put two and two together, and realized he was here working in conjucture with zune. He told me as much later. And he talked up the zune all night, except no one was listening. It was all kinda gross.

Paolo

]]> 33:268624:c1663229 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:18:30 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1663143 maybe zune should consider a branded microbrew?

MC

]]> 33:268624:c1663143 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:09:42 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1663137 lolz: what's it say about zune marketing if the comments at a blog entry on zune degenerates into an argument of which beer is hipper?

MC

]]> 33:268624:c1663137 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:09:05 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1662515 I used to throw parties like this for Adult Swim. We got to have ours at bars, though, and they flew us up to the Adult Swim world headquarters a few times to get really drunk with your Aquateen and your Sealab creators. That Dave Willis is a dreamboat! Also throwing the parties was easy, and, yes, photo-taking was a key part. They can tell what you're doing and they also put them in these little booklets they send to potential advertisers so they can be all "look at the hip youngsters who love us" and then they get a bag of money.

DavidWatts

]]> 33:268624:c1662515 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:57:09 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1662389 Please, beer marketers, let Yuengling be the next PBR. At the very least, I'd finally be able to find it out here in the Midwest. (As it stands, I make family members from Philly bring me bottles of Yuengling Lager when they visit.)

mike a

]]> 33:268624:c1662389 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:41:52 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1662230 @fishnotfried: In portland you can drink weinhard's for cheap.

High Life is the king. always has been, always will be.

Moonshine Mike

]]> 33:268624:c1662230 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:16:00 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1662221 If PBR is unhip, why do I have such a big beer gut. It still rules the school in Athens, GA, another fairly hip town. And I thought Yuengling was the hot "new" Pabst anyway. Rheingold? Stella? Who the hell are you guys?

Lucas Jensen

]]> 33:268624:c1662221 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:14:59 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1662218 Let's not forget Stag beer, which (to paraphrase Venom) comes from where Uncle Tupelo comes from.

Didn't Olympia beer have its hipster renaissance in the early '90s? My Evergreen-educated wife has an "Oly Girl" patch from the now-sadly-defunct brewery in Tumwater.

mike a

]]> 33:268624:c1662218 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:14:33 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1662200 Rock Star put together something along these lines for their Table Tennis title a while back. I was at at an art gallery, viewing a friend's show, when I noticed a large table in the back covered in wristbands and keychains, and nearby several guys playing Xbox on a couch. Lo and behold, there was a mini-marketing party back there, with one very nonchalant dude explaining that they were on a tour, and this show was chosen as a stop. Marketing - throw a dart and the further it's off target, the more you win. Well them, not us.

Dancomono

]]> 33:268624:c1662200 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:11:04 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1661395 @The Mozfather: Sorry, there is no uncool dork demographic in Canada.

Hyman Decent

]]> 33:268624:c1661395 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:18:05 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1661047 I'll do it! But I live in Canada, so it'll have to be a forty of Labatt 50.

The Mozfather

]]> 33:268624:c1661047 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:53:19 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1661011 @Deadly Tango: Holy cow! It's like I just re-lived my college years in that one paragraph! Was it Olympia that had the picture puzzles under the bottle caps?

Good times...

KimPossible

]]> 33:268624:c1661011 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:42:23 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1659974 @riverrun: Seriously?

Maura Johnston

]]> 33:268624:c1659974 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:38:41 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1659950 Come spend a week in Portland and then try and tell me PBR is no longer cool or SO six years ago. If that's the case, this whole damn city is completely un-hip, which I can assure you is not the case.

fishnotfried

]]> 33:268624:c1659950 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:35:55 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1659698 How much is Zune paying Idolator for these postings?

parrotrunner

]]> 33:268624:c1659698 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:57:59 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1659556 @bedofnails (and others): Wait until the kiddies stumble upon Huber Bock, the pride of Monroe, Wisconsin ... part of the fun is that no two bottles (even from the same case) ever taste quite the same. I suppose that's kinda like the frustration of trying to experience "the social," right?

There's a whole world of yellow, regional, one-time macro-brews for trucker-hat tools to discover -- Lone Star, Schlitz, Schaefer, Red White & Blue, Schmidt's, Knickerbocker, Rhinelander, Falstaff, Carling Black Label (look for the rebus under the cap), Grain Belt, Hamm's, Blatz, and Olympia come to mind immediately.

Disclosure / shameless self-promotion -- I spent six years in the Badger State and maintain a beer and ale blog from time to time... amazingly, I beat Jay "Agony Shorthand / Detailed Twang" Hinman to the punch by nearly five months, though his publishing schedule absolutely crushes mine.

Deadly Tango

]]> 33:268624:c1659556 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:34:56 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1659434 Maura, remember when I told you about that fraternity party sponsored by Zune, like 2-3 months ago!?

MTS

]]> 33:268624:c1659434 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:14:26 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1659340 @Vince Neilstein:

RHEINGOLD was so last week, Stella Artois is the pegged jeans drink of choice.

bedofnails

]]> 33:268624:c1659340 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:51:46 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1659006 Y'know, I would never use a Zune or anything because I run fruit-based hardware (APPL 4 LIFE) but if the installer screen shows you orgy pictures I might be willing to at least give it a try.

(Damn. How have I not noticed that? It is so blatant. I've seen copies of Playboy that look more wholesome than that picture.)

emeryemeryemery

]]> 33:268624:c1659006 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:02:28 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1658860 Dude, yeah, I totally attended a "virtual" Zune Party like this at the "virtual" Max Fish on the "virtual lower east side."

[www.vles.co]

Catbirdseat

]]> 33:268624:c1658860 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:38:51 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1658838 @Vince Neilstein: jinx!

janine

]]> 33:268624:c1658838 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:36:26 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1658836 @Ted Striker: only if now is 6 years ago

janine

]]> 33:268624:c1658836 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:36:03 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1658832 @Ted Striker: Puh-LEESE: Pabst is SO over. It's all about the RHEINGOLD now.

Vince Neilstein

]]> 33:268624:c1658832 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:35:36 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1658794 @Ted Striker: Microsoft is targeting the uncool dork demographic.

Hyman Decent

]]> 33:268624:c1658794 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:30:34 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1658720 @DanGibson:

P.S. MGD? Seriously? Everyone knows that the cool hipsters drink Pabst now.

Ted Striker

]]> 33:268624:c1658720 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:18:06 EDT <![CDATA[A Zune Marketing Tactic That May Be Almost As Effective As Catering To Bloggers]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/zune/a-zune-marketing-tactic-that-may-be-almost-as-effective-as-catering-to-bloggers-268624.php#c1658535 Dear Microsoft Overlords,

If you cough up the cash for better beer, and possibly some mixed drinks, I am available for your blatantly promotional party hosting.

THX,
DanGibson

Dan Gibson

]]> 33:268624:c1658535 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:50:40 EDT