Marketing Bits: Cannes, Beavertails and a superhero response

• Invest in Canada is in Davos, Switzerland giving away Beavertails (the winter snack, not the actual mammal’s appendage) to sweeten a sales pitch on Canadian investment. • Ad Age is conducting a fairly comprehensive poll on the worst Super Bowl ads of all time. Take a look, if you can stand it. • AdLand […]

Invest in Canada is in Davos, Switzerland giving away Beavertails (the winter snack, not the actual mammal’s appendage) to sweeten a sales pitch on Canadian investment.

• Ad Age is conducting a fairly comprehensive poll on the worst Super Bowl ads of all time. Take a look, if you can stand it.

AdLand had this one: Boy sends PBS a dollar donation. Boy sends a letter asking PBS to make a show called Superheroes to the Rescue. PBS, understanding that the web was made for fast responses to good ideas, put together a web project for the idea within a few hours.

• Oh, and by the way, the Cannes Lions submission period is now open.

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