Web Monitor
15:31 UK time, Wednesday, 16 December 2009
A celebration of the riches of the web.
Today in Web Monitor: Tiger's no-go brands, searching surges through 2009 and revelling in failure.
• Marketing Magazine has a little fun with brands least likely to sponsor Tiger Woods.
Brylcreem's slogan "control yourself" and Greggs the bakers' line "ready when you are" make the top 10. Somehow, Web Monitor imagines the golfer wasn't fielding calls from these two even before he hit the front pages a couple of weeks ago.
• Everyone's chomping at the bit to get their end-of-year lists out. Google's Zeitgeist found Michael Jackson the fastest rising search term of 2009 and Beijing 2008 the fastest falling. YouTube has also released its list of the most watched YouTube videos of the year, with Susan Boyle still at the top, where she has been since April. And Twitter has also released its top trends of the year - #iranelection coming in as the most popular.
• Actor Alec Baldwin hasn't been shy from showing his failures of late. And he doesn't let Wired Magazine down in his interview charting his unhappiness with the films he's been in. He says he's done with doing films for the money but lets Wired in on how the fall from fame felt:
"When your fortunes ebb in the movie business, it's like The Sixth Sense: You're dead and you don't know it."
Links in full
Bill Britt | Marketing Magazine | Top 10 brands least likely to sponsor Tiger Woods
The official YouTube blog | What You Watched and Searched for on YouTube in 2009 
Twitter blog | Top Twitter Trends of 2009 
Scott Brown | Wired| The Fall and Rise of Alec Baldwin
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