Month: December 2010

  • Celebrity fragrance commercials – part 2

    When I started writing this post, I found many fragrance commercials on Youtube – enough to put in a second post.  In case you are wondering why I am writing about this topic, the following is an excerpt from one of my earlier posts: I am always curious about the promotion of fragrances  – how does…

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  • Celebrity fragrance commercials – part 1

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlF22oSslNM&fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0] Justin Timberlake for Givenchy Play Continuing with the theme of fragrance marketing, I saw a bunch of TV commercials just before Christmas on UK channels and noticed many pop and even movie celebrities playing the lead in these 30-45 seconds clips.  Most movie celebrities do not let their TV commercials show in US territory…

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  • Berlin: Even more KaDeWe sausages

    8 (107) KaDeWe’s delicatessen is rumored to sell more than 1000 types of sausages. To test the rumor,  I started counting the number of price tags in each display case in my last post. Click here to see the earlier post (and more sausages… ). The fun continues here … the bracketed number is the…

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  • Berlin: KaDeWe’s 1000 sausages

    12 (12) Rumors has it that KaDeWe’s delicatessen on the sixth floor carries more than 1000 types of sausages.  I did an estimate to test the rumor.  Here is the evidence, presented in two posts. I have counted the number of price tags and put the number under each picture, along with the running total.…

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