Recognition Marketing Buzz Meter - Week Ending 8/12/07
The Following Are The Winners & Losers For The Past Week:
Winners
- Tiger Woods - wins 13th Major, 4th PGA Championship
- Hillary Clinton - widens lead on the field
- Mitt Romney - wins Iowa Straw Poll
- Hank Aaron - class act taped memorable congratulatory video on Barry Bond's 756th
- Richard Branson - Virgin America begins service
- Buick - ties perennial leader Lexus for Top Spot on J.D. Power Ratings
- Rupert Murdoch - wins control of Dow Jones
- Tom Glavine - class act wins 300th game playing by the rules
- Cal Ripken & Tony Gwynn - role models inducted into Cooperstown
Losers
- Wall Street - dealing with crisis in sub-prime mortgage market
- Chrysler - taps former Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli to lead company
- Bush Administration - Karl Rove calls it quits
- Wall Street Journal - Bancroft family sells out
- Airlines - delays and lost baggage woes worsen
- Pentagon - only administers slap on the wrist to general officers in Pat Tillman case
- Google - less Luke Skywalker, more Darth Vader with acquisition of DoubleClick
- Tommy Thompson - first casualty of Republican Presidential Race
- Rudy Guiliani - Hero of 9/11 moniker wearing thin
- Barck Obama - losing ground to the Senator from New York
- David Beckham - the Paris Hilton of soccer?
- China - lead painted toys, tainted pet food and toothpaste. What's next?
