In his latest movie, The Woman In Black, Dan traded his Hogwarts uniform for a totally new role as a Dad.
Natalia brings you the latest news on Adele’s interview with Anderson Cooper, Kristen Bell’s interview on Ellen is auto tuned, Ladyhawke’s latest music video and much more!
Natalia discusses what’s new with Pharrell Williams and her thoughts on Karl Lagerfeld’s mean comments towards Adele’s weight. She also shows a roster of animals behaving like humans and, wait until you see the new size of coffee available at Starbucks!
Natalia dishes the latest news on the Juno Awards nominees, the upcoming Spiderman 3D film starring Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield and is Katy Perry hooking up with Tim Tebow? Watch today’s episode to find out.
When The Kooks are in the studio they’re focused and most importantly, sober. Watch Hugh and Luke explain their reasoning below.
The Kooks released a new album called “Junk of the Heart,” and you would think Hugh and Luke would be very excited about it. Well, they seemed rather indifferent to be honest. We spoke about that and why they don’t care about critics.
Natalia dishes the latest in entertainment news on Joan Rivers, Lana Del Rey and a brand new trailer for the movie Hunger Games.
Natalia talks about how Snooki might be pregnant, Nicolas Cage’s Cage Rage, Elisabetta Canalis is dating Steve-O and more for Feb 1, 2012.
Natalia dishes the news on Miley Cyrus breaking her tailbone, a 100 year old woman who plays the Nintendo DS to stay young and Houston, Texas contemplating a statute of Beyonce.
David Beckham debuts a new line of underwear, the worst dressed celebrity – Shy’m and Matthew Broderick is back as Ferris Bueller with a brand new commercial airing during the Super Bowl on Feb 5th 2012.
Daniel Radcliffe is back with his new movie The Woman In Black. It’s a bone chilling remake of a film from the ’80s. Ironically, Daniel actually scares very easily but he’s not afraid of ghosts. In this interview he tells us what really gives him the creeps.
Next time you’re struggling to make conversation, try asking this question: “If you could invite anyone (living or dead) to the perfect house party, who would it be?”
Graffiti6 is starting to make their North American invasion, and they are hitting up the Tonight Show. Does this sound familiar? Well the Beatles made the exact same journey over 40 years ago. Naturally, @jordans_life had to make some comparisons.
Nick plays World of Warcraft. Not only that, he’s the head of his guild, demonstrating that it IS possible to juggle being a hardcore gamer with being a top-selling recording artist.
During a LIVE interview on andPOP.com Nick Carter gave out a number and took phone calls from his fans. These were real phone calls from real fans who we gave exclusive access to one of the biggest recording artists of our generation.
There were great questions about music, fitness, the backstreet boys but the most popular question, however, was about his underwear. In this clip Nick talks about his his ‘Haynes’ and covering his fans with glow in the dark paint.
When releasing new music today, half the battle is online promotion. However, contests, signed merch and giveaways aren’t always the best solutions. When working on their latest album, Hedley came up with a brilliant idea, they decided to make trailers.
It’s hard to prepare for an interview with Hedley. So in this interview, we threw caution to the wind, got a 24 of beer and broadcast the interview live on our USTREAM (andPOP.tv). Eventually Jacob, Dave and @jordans_life ended up talking about hairy legs, their newest music video and more.
Diamandis from Marina and The Diamonds talks to us about her very serious disease. It’s called synaesthetic. And we lied, it’s not a disease. More like a cool condition. Diamandis explains further.
Would you be embarrassed if someone scrolled through your iPod? We sit down with Spee and Brendan to talk about the diverse music on their playlist.
Marketing and professional sports.
Sounds like the title of an essay I would write for a Sociology class; however the link between advertising and sports has become an acceptable part of pro sports.
Historically, sports were meant to create excitement, entertainment and a sense of competition for spectators. Nowadays, all of the above still apply; tack on marketing to that list?now we have a complete list of the purpose of sports.
We as fans have come to expect marketing to be the driving force behind our sports viewing experiences. Case in point: during the NHL lockout this past winter, hockey analysts suggested once the National Hockey League got back up and running, the League should go out on a limb to try and win back the fans.
Win back the fans? Sure, when the favourite pastime of most Canadians, hockey, is taken away from for reasons beyond control, there is a sense of anger and resentment?but once the game returns, shouldn?t the love and passion felt for the sport return without invitation? I think so, yet I never found anything wrong with re-marketing the League.
That question was never challenged; die-hard and casual fans alike agreed there should be some motion by the teams and the League as a whole to get people excited about hockey again.
Rules were changed to try and increase goal scoring to eliminate ?boring? low-scoring games, promotional giveaways were being proposed, ticket prices were slashed, more player availability was promised, the list goes on.
The latest advertising move by the NHL was announced this week featuring a creative ad campaign tagged with the slogan ?My NHL,? providing a nice sense of ownership and personalization for the fans.
Teaming up with the advertising agency Conductor, the League will release a series of TV commercials and print ads this up-coming week.
Thomas C. Cotton, president of Conductor, told the New York Times, ?We wanted to get deep inside the soul of the game to reach the rabid fan who is starved for hockey and the casual fan who might have overlooked it.?
But no great comeback story is complete without some controversy.
Martha Burk, the woman who created a stir at Augusta National Golf Club three years ago with her unsuccessful efforts to allow female members is setting her sights on the NHL.
Burk calls the commercials “gratuitous” because it shows a scantily clad woman dressing a hockey player by helping him put on his shoulder pads and jersey.
The NHL counteracted by explaining, ?The woman is a spiritual and physical trainer for the warrior [the player], and his mentor.?
Burk, the chairwoman of the National Council of Women’s Organizations, plans on sending letters of protest to NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and to chairman of NBC Universal Sports & Olympics since NBC plans on airing the commercial next week.
Burk?s outcry may in fact fall on deaf ears, being a woman myself, I feel that there are far more offensive television commercials on regular rotation to cause a stir over an ad targeted at men, who make up the majority of hockey fans.
The new ads have been embraced by the NHL clubs, corporate sponsors, as well as the players. Directed by acclaimed music video director Sam Bayer (Green Day?s ?Boulevard of Broken Dreams? video,) the series of ads are unlike anything the NHL has put together marketing-wise and the hope is the attention grabbing vignettes attract interest?and subsequently put butts into the seats at the arenas because that?s the name of the game.
Welcome back NHL!
