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A bunch of overpaid entertainers and their support staff patting each other on the back at the Samsung Oscars.
The sheeple lap it up.

Ellen DeGeneres Oscars selfie a marketing stunt
March 4, 2014 - 5:36AM


Michael Idato
Entertainment Editor-at-Large, Los Angeles
Ellen selfie a marketing stunt
Within hours it became the most re-tweeted photo in history, but was the Oscars selfie simply a marketing exercise for awards sponsor Samsung?
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Before it was officially confirmed, it had already been declared the biggest selfie in history.

But it appears Academy Awards host Ellen DeGeneres' star-studded selfie, taken seemingly spontaneously in the middle of the Oscar telecast, was just a cynical exercise in product placement.

The image, one of the major talking points of the night, was taken by actor Bradley Cooper, and included DeGeneres, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Spacey and a little bit of Jared Leto.

Ellen DeGeneres (centre) withs actors front row from left, Jared Leto, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Ellen DeGeneres, Bradley Cooper, Peter Nyong'o Jr., and, second row, from left, Channing Tatum, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Brad Pitt, Lupita Nyong'o and Angelina Jolie as they pose for a 'selfie' portrait.
Ellen DeGeneres (centre) withs actors front row from left, Jared Leto, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Ellen DeGeneres, Bradley Cooper, Peter Nyong'o Jr., and, second row, from left, Channing Tatum, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Brad Pitt, Lupita Nyong'o and Angelina Jolie as they pose for a 'selfie' portrait. Photo: AP Photo/Ellen DeGeneres
Other images, taken from behind the image, show iconic singer Liza Minnelli attempted to join the image but, at the back of the group and standing at just five feet, four inches (1.63m), she didn't make the cut.

But was everything as it seemed? Was this indeed one of those spontaneous moments that pops in the middle of the cultural conversation?

Or was it a carefully produced piece of product placement? And were star such as Streep, Roberts, Pitt and Spacey, all of whom carefully manage their image, aware they were being exploited for a brand?

The answer is, as it always can be, found in the fine print.

The "super selfie" contains a small tag which reads "via Twitter for Android". Other images posted by DeGeneres before and after contain a small tag which reads "via Twitter for iPhone".

The reason for the two different tags is that DeGeneres' own phone is an iPhone, but the phone she used for the "super selfie" was a Samsung Galaxy. And - come on, you know where we're heading here - Samsung Galaxy is an official Oscar sponsor.

The stunt - and it's safe to say it was a stunt, produced to expose a mobile phone brand to the massive Oscar audience - was a monumental success.

Like most rockets it is slowing down, but the "super selfie" presently stands at 2.7 million re-tweets and has been "favourited" 1.4 million times by Twitter users. (And it is still rising.)

Within minutes of being posted to Twitter the social network crashed momentarily. The image also quickly super-ceded the record holder, which was a picture tweeted by US president Barack Obama hugging his wife, US first lady Michelle Obama, which had recorded 780,000 re-tweets.

"We crashed and broke Twitter. We made history," DeGeneres said during the broadcast, noting that Twitter's office had contacted the producers to alert them. "It's fantastic. See what we did, Meryl?"

She did not alert the audience, or indeed the A-list stars who had been inadvertently exploited by it, that the moment, while entertaining for the TV audience, was as spontaneous as a soap powder advertisement.

Samsung has been contracted to the Academy Awards as a sponsor, and is ranked among one of Oscar's biggest benefactors. According to a recent advertising industry report, the company has spent around US$24 million on the Oscars during that time.

It still falls some way short of Oscar's biggest benefactors: Hyundai (US$56.6 million), the department store JC Penney (US$49.4 million) and Coca-Cola (US$41.5 million).

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isnt she that herring breathed lesbian?

Originally Posted by Fluke

Will they ever make a movie about the British Royal Navy patrolling the seas enforcing Britain's law that outlawed slavery, the first Country in the World to do so ?
Or a movie detailing the slave trade before Europeans got involved , showing that slavery was an Arab/ African tradition long before Europeans joinnd in ?

They should also include the part about the British Royal Navy capturing American merchant sailors and pressing them into involuntary servitude in the British Royal Navy.

Originally Posted by Koojo

A bunch of overpaid entertainers and their support staff patting each other on the back at the Samsung Oscars.
The sheeple lap it up.

Samsung must be very happy apart from her using her iPhone backstage must have pished them off.

she would never win an award for her tits would she

Originally Posted by Neverna

Here's the only Steve McQueen I'll remember.

the part when he rides up the hill onto the road after taking the bike from the german.
classic stuff.

Originally Posted by Humbert

Originally Posted by Fluke

Will they ever make a movie about the British Royal Navy patrolling the seas enforcing Britain's law that outlawed slavery, the first Country in the World to do so ?
Or a movie detailing the slave trade before Europeans got involved , showing that slavery was an Arab/ African tradition long before Europeans joinnd in ?

They should also include the part about the British Royal Navy capturing American merchant sailors and pressing them into involuntary servitude in the British Royal Navy.

This film will be an epic, the longest film ever made

Originally Posted by Fluke

Originally Posted by Humbert

Originally Posted by Fluke

Will they ever make a movie about the British Royal Navy patrolling the seas enforcing Britain's law that outlawed slavery, the first Country in the World to do so ?
Or a movie detailing the slave trade before Europeans got involved , showing that slavery was an Arab/ African tradition long before Europeans joinnd in ?

They should also include the part about the British Royal Navy capturing American merchant sailors and pressing them into involuntary servitude in the British Royal Navy.

This film will be an epic, the longest film ever made

Amazing Grace: The Movie - About The Production

Amazing grace is long and tedious, mrs fell asleep

Is nothing sacred any more,Samsung have sunk so low as to commecialise the hallowed Oscars.

Originally Posted by billy the kid

Originally Posted by Neverna

Here's the only Steve McQueen I'll remember.

the part when he rides up the hill onto the road after taking the bike from the german.
classic stuff.

I met an old Spitfire pilot who was in that Prisoner of war camp,and he was upset with that movie the great escape,as in real history no U.S.A airmen where held there.
Don't think they had turned up yet to the arena.

This story of the Brit ship the black joke, no really, would make a good film. It sailed the Atlantic hunting down slave ships and freeing Africans. In one encounter they hunted down a much larger Spanish slaver freeing 400 slaves. Of course as there are no Yanks involved it's a non starter as a film

HMS Black Joke ship log details how Royal Navy fought to stop slave trade | Mail Online