OK you think Abortion, Illegal Immigration, Islamic Terror, Gay-Marriage, blah-blah-blah are important issues that need to be discussed and debated. However, we are all preaching to the same choirs and mutually stroking ourselves. That's right. Leftists keep reading the same defeatist drivel and nod their heads in agreement, and conservatives keep reading the truth and nod their heads in agreement but no one is changing the minds of all the empty heads out there, the MySpace crowd.

Big Business is paying attention, but then Big Business can sniff a dime a mile away, tricks that only Jews of Old could easily do, or so some Muslims believe today. The big boys know that you have to use stealth and indirect advertising to get to that precious commodity known as YOUTH. For those of you who are not 14-30, anxious parents of teenagers, or pedophiles you may not know that the greatest concentration of YOUTH is in MySpace where more than 54 million unique visitors hit the site last month. If you were not one of those visitors, you are most likely not a YOUTH.

The Economist, Marketing on MySpace

Jul 27th 2006

MySpace seems to offer a chance for companies to take their marketing into new, potentially more lucrative territory, by becoming, in effect, members of their customers' network of 'friends'. A growing number of firms have established their own pages on MySpace, to which users can link. In the process, some are getting into bed with some unlikely partners. Earlier this year, for example, Unilever, a consumer-goods giant, hooked up with Christine Dolce to promote Axe, a deodorant. Ms Dolce, who goes by the alias ForBiddeN, boasts around 900,000 'friends' who link to her MySpace page. Bleached, buxom and with impressive marketing savvy, she is arguably the most successful brand to emerge from MySpace, and has already launched a line of clothing.

...

The biggest challenge—for MySpace itself, and for the firms that want to use it to promote their wares—is not to alienate potential customers by being overtly commercial. "We need to be engaging with them, not banging them over the head with brandalism that pollutes their space," says Kevin George of Unilever. But, he says, "when you deliver 18- to 24-year-old guys content they want to engage with, they don't mind if it comes from a brand." This theory will now be put to the test, as MySpacers' attention is fought over by brands including Procter & Gamble's Old Spice, State Farm insurance, Elexa by Trojan female condoms, and the US Marine Corps.

If you are my age (61), you probably never heard of Christine Dolce, a combination of Paris Hilton and Pamela Anderson. These photos should give you some idea.

Christine, busy little girl that she is, also hosts Gamekillers [now defunnct], which hopefully teaches you how to detect hook-up preventers and scheming backstabbers in the dating world.

Ms Dolce also promotes

Photo Credit: Pherlure

... and her own line of destroyed denims

Yesterday Gawker reported MySpace Sexpot Protests Booting from Playboy Cover, Excerpt:

"Due to her vast appeal to those with surplus sex drive/income, Dolce signed on for a Playboy pictorial, and her editor totally assured her she'd get the cover. Unfortunately, the editor was fired, and the furies of disappointment were loosed:

About a week ago I called up Playboy to see how things are going and they give me the word that Mr. Hugh Hefner decided on putting a unknown college girl on the cover instead of me. My heart dropped and sank into the floor. Sadness turned into anger, how could they do this? Do they not understand how powerful and hot Myspace is?

Dolce has a petition going to regain her cover, but really, it's not as if everyone on that list isn't going to buy that issue of Playboy anyway. You go, unknown college girl.

Related posts:

american super star, A Star is Born...on MySpace

Dolce's true calling became clearer about a year after she posted her profile. As MySpace became the world's fastest-growing Web site, Dolce's celebrity status roared along at a competitive pace. She started getting thousands of "friend requests." People began to recognize her whenever she was out in public. "Forbidden" amassed more than 850,000 "friends," becoming the most popular profile of the site's more than 74 million plus users (aside from Tom, himself).

freerepublic,
Young males like 'The Axe Effect' (Moronic cologne ad campaign is apparently working)

Spray, delay, and walk away." "Grooming Guru" Kyan Douglas can be overheard dishing this advice to the (formerly) clueless men on TV's makeover show "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." He knows a little cologne goes a long way.

Mike Church wishes his directions were more widely heeded. "People my age, they'll drench it on," the 19-year-old Express Men employee says recently during his shift at Mishawaka's University Park Mall. "It'll just give you a headache."

Church doesn't let the poor choices of his peers prevent him from doing it right.

He and all three of his brothers, ages 14, 13 and 12, wear Axe brand body sprays, he says. Mike Church likes "Touch."

"I'm not really into the Old Spice thing," he says. "That's more my dad's generation." I think my grandpa wore that."

Tango Diva,
Elexa: A Trojan Test Drive

No more looking over your shoulder while shopping for condoms in the first-aid aisle. The makers of Trojan brand condoms have unveiled their newest line of sexual well-being products, said to be created from a woman’s perspective, and designed to help women realize more fulfilling sex lives. Is this a step in the right direction for female sexual ownership, or just a marketing ploy to put a feminine face on a product with typically testosterone-pumped advertising? One of Tango Diva’s very own Jetsetters takes Trojan’s new Elexa line out for a spin and gives you all the dirty details.

Christine Dolce Interview for PunkTV.ca click here.

I'm sure by now my point is probably lost. If I had one it would be that bloggers need to also take up real estate on MySpace if they want their message to be heard by the future leaders (gulp) of our world. Damn, where's my cyanide?

That we don't reach our young is probably why when asked about Darfur they say "I don't even know what happened to Dar one, two, or three!"

FORBIDDEN at the MYSPACE party in October 2005!

Christine Dolce is helping to support local music in the Zippo Hot Tour.