Showing posts with label start wearing purple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label start wearing purple. Show all posts

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Campaign for Color

Ok pink is for breast cancer awareness, yellow is for Lance Armstrong/Livestrong, red is for AIDS. Colors keep getting branded, and now Yahoo is attempting to claim the color purple.



I went to the website and it's kind of interesting and very interactive, but I don't see much of a point. According to Yahoo, the idea behind their purple campaign is "[to embrace] individuality, fashion, style, art and personality."

The campaign's official theme song "Start Wearing Purple" by Gogol Bordello. This guy is totally a musical version of Borat.


Co-branded with Flickr and Electra, the Purple Pedals Project chronicles the life of a camera-mounted bikes which post pictures from their point-of-view every 60 seconds.



Maybe eventually people will associate purple and Yahoo, but I don't think it's reached the success of the aforementioned spectrum. I guess they're trying to compete with the behemoth creature that is Google.

Still, I might try to throw on a purple shirt tomorrow or something. Do I even own a purple shirt?