{"id":2458,"date":"2013-04-11T10:01:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T14:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=2458"},"modified":"2013-04-11T10:01:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T14:01:24","slug":"how-to-capitalize-on-your-brands-unplanned-star-turn-on-mad-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/04\/11\/how-to-capitalize-on-your-brands-unplanned-star-turn-on-mad-men\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Capitalize on Your Brand&#8217;s Unplanned Star Turn on &#8216;Mad Men&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adage.com\/article\/media\/capitalize-brand-s-unplanned-star-turn-mad-men\/240796\/?utm_source=Media&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+AdvertisingAge\/Media\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gaia.adage.com\/images\/bin\/image\/x-large\/koss_3x2.png?resize=277%2C182\" width=\"277\" height=\"182\" alt=\"\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems almost unfair: Big brands like Lincoln Motor Co. and Johnnie Walker laid out big bucks for commercial time during the season premiere of &#8220;Mad Men,&#8221; but Koss Corp. slipped into the script without paying a cent. And there was no DVR-powered skipping through the headphone-maker&#8217;s airtime, either.<\/p>\n<p>The downside for Koss, of course, was a total absence of control.<\/p>\n<p>Koss, the Milwaukee-based company, only learned it was being used at the last minute and had absolutely no say on the matter. Like other brands written into &#8220;Mad Men&#8221;&#8216;s universe, its executives didn&#8217;t see the episode before it aired or have any input on a script that used Koss in a central way: to allow Peggy Olson to show off her creative and crisis-management chops. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adage.com\/article\/media\/capitalize-brand-s-unplanned-star-turn-mad-men\/240796\/?utm_source=Media&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+AdvertisingAge\/Media\">Continue reading at AdAge.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>via Advertising Age &#8211; Homepage <a href=\"http:\/\/adage.com\/article\/media\/koss-headphones-capitalized-mad-men-role\/240796\/?utm_source=Media&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+AdvertisingAge\/Media\">http:\/\/adage.com\/article\/media\/koss-headphones-capitalized-mad-men-role\/240796\/?utm_source=Media&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+AdvertisingAge\/Media<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems almost unfair: Big brands like Lincoln Motor Co. and Johnnie Walker laid out big bucks for commercial time during the season premiere of &#8220;Mad Men,&#8221; but Koss Corp. slipped into the script without paying a cent. And there was no DVR-powered skipping through the headphone-maker&#8217;s airtime, either. The downside for Koss, of course, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/04\/11\/how-to-capitalize-on-your-brands-unplanned-star-turn-on-mad-men\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Capitalize on Your Brand&#8217;s Unplanned Star Turn on &#8216;Mad Men&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[75,6,935],"class_list":["post-2458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-advertising-age-homepage","tag-ifttt","tag-mattcreamergmail-com-matthew-creamer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-DE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}