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The New face of branding. (No Comment).


From Utne.com: "'I kind of like temporary tattoos, and I definitely like donuts donuts - (Obsolete) A collective noun for any set of memory bits. This usage is extremely archaic and may no longer be live jargon; it dates from the days of ferrite core memories in which each bit was implemented by a doughnut-shaped magnetic flip-flop. , quips Brittany Ojala to ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network .com's Darren Rovell. The comment aims to explain why the college student decided to plaster a Dunkin' Donuts Sources:

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 tattoo across her forehead at a recent sporting event. Many other attendees at this year's NCAA tournament NCAA Tournament can mean:

Men's Sports
  • NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, the most common usage of this term
  • NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Championship
  • NCAA Men's Division III Basketball Championship
 have also chosen to be part of the new advertising campaign, which asks fans to don the company's logo in exchange for a nominal cash reward and, hopefully, a chance to be on a sports stadium's jumbotron screen. Rovell terms this new form of advertising 'fan branding' and attributes its rise to the fact that 'corporate America has maxed out advertising space at sporting venues,' meaning that the only viable advertising space still available in arenas has become the fans themselves."
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Title Annotation:Dunkin' Donuts tattoo
Publication:The Progressive
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jun 1, 2003
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