<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, mad men]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, mad men]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/madmen http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/madmen <![CDATA[Mad Men's Don Draper lends dated persuasion to Yahoo's ad platform pitch]]> Adding some actual potency to Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and president Sue Decker's pitch to Madison Avenue this morning: Jon Hamm, star of AMC's weekly ode to the world of 1960's ad guys, Mad Men. Yang and Decker were likely hoping Hamm's shine would rub off on them, just by having him in the room this morning to deliver lines like "what my friend Jerry Yang is about to share with you will rock the advertising world in the same way that radio and television did way back when."

Likening APT (née AMP, née Project Apex, before its name was "awesomeized"), Yahoo's too-little-too-late ad platform, to the scotch-soaked, cigarette hazy halcyon days that Hamm's presence would evoke can only remind those potential ad buyers of how the business really isn't anymore. Like Yahoo's golden era, it, too, has passed, no matter how many smoke rings management attempts to wreath their current missteps in. As Don Draper said in his most famous pitch, clipped above: "Nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound."

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<![CDATA[TV's "Mad Men" come to Twitter]]> Fans of AMC's 1960s period drama "Mad Men," have created a series of Twitter accounts impersonating characters from the show's ad agency. Better check them out now: AMC lawyers have already filed legal notices with Twitter demanding their removal. Don Draper and Joan Halloway's accounts are already gone. Obviously, that's a mistake on the part of the cable channel.

Star Wars creator George Lucas may not know how to make a movie anymore, but he at least he knows letting Star Wars fans live out weird fantasies by writing fan fiction and posting it on the Web will only help sell more merchandise in the end. "Mad Men" is a hit on both coasts — some say it's retro costumes are starting to impact men's fashion — it's not a Star Wars-sized hit at all and really can't afford to thumb its nose at fans willing to waste their time promoting the show. Here are some of fans' more successful Twitter impersonations below.








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<![CDATA[iTunes Steals Mad Men's Smokes]]> The image you see on top is a standard ad for Mad Men, AMC's series about hard-paryting admen in the good old days that conveniently advertises itself everywhere. The image on the bottom is what you see when you visit iTunes to purchase the full season of Mad Men. The difference? On iTunes, the man has had his cigarette taken away. Steve Jobs does not understand the point of this show at all. Click to enlarge the Apple-approved scrubbing of our culture.

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