2008 Top Five Posts from Corporate Babysitter
Isn’t this better than a Top Ten list? Ranked by number of pageviews:
1. A thousand words: Not a post at all; rather, this was an image that first appeared in Feministe. Most hits came because it was linked to in a book review on Salon.com. The photo of the Hooters girl in training toddler-sized t-shirt elicited a collective wtf? heard round the world.
2. Target Corporation assumes feminism is dead; dismisses bloggers and
3. Why the Target “snow angel” ad matters: Bringing the discussion back to parenting and corporate responsibility: Two posts I have no desire to revisit here, after all, it’s New Year’s Eve and there are some things about the year I’d rather forget. But hey, it got me on local television (and therefore lots of hits) and put Target on its own top five list by Joseph Jaffe. It’s been a year since I’ve stepped foot in a Target and I haven’t missed it a bit.
4. Children’s online virtual worlds create dull mini-capitalists: A personal favorite. Hits came mostly from web searches on children and virtual worlds. Got the attention of The Guardian’s Aleks Krotoski. Hoping it affected at least some parents’ views.
5. Helping kids see past commercialism: Another wonderfully written, informative, and helpful post. But I didn’t write it. Tiffany at Nature Moms Blog did. Her original post also has one of the best photo-illustrations I’ve ever seen. Thanks, Tiffany, and hope you got as much traffic from your post as I did.
I also took a quick look to see the top corporate or public relations visitors:
1. Target Corporation
2. Edelman Public Relations
3. Carmichael-Lynch
4. CBS Inc.
5. Procter and Gamble
6. Disney Worldwide Services
7. Kellogg Company
8. CBS Corporation
9. Scholastic Book Fairs
10. General Mills
All in all, a good year for Corporate Babysitter and Parents for Ethical Marketing. Thanks for being a part of it!
January 1st, 2009 at 1:18 am
L.–What tool are you using on the corp. visitor/site capture? I’m still in unoptimized Google analytics mode due to tmi overload…You should be SO proud and CONGRATULATE yourself for a fabulous year, and I know in my heart ‘you’ll be back’ with us all regularly very soon. (still figuring out my rev gen too…2009 is time for mine!)
January 1st, 2009 at 8:10 pm
I use Google Analytics and love it. Thanks for the kind words and your continued support!
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:54 pm
I looked at most of those posts, and I’m just glad to have found your blog. Target is one of those stores that’s kind of acceptable even among anti-commercialists because it’s like a more elite box store – it doesn’t have a wal-mart feel at all. I order some of their clothes online (though I cringe at the thought of where they’re made) but I simply cannot bring myself to let my 3-year-old daughter even look at their toy aisles. It’s just … crazy. I’ll die before I let my daughter own a Bratz doll or any of that other crap. She’s a beautiful princess–all on her own. Thanks for pointing out the #5 blog post about helping kids see past commercialism. So much to think about!
January 3rd, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Jessica, thanks. Target’s got a great PR machine going — who notices that Target has the same lobbyists, etc. as Wal Mart when they “give so much back” to the community? Smart move to keep your child out of there, period. Thanks for reading!