Now for the news:

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Sign up now and help us get kgbDeals started. And start to save 50% – 90% on all the things you love to do, eat, wear and enjoy in your city. And get your friends and family to sign up and start saving to.

See you at kgbDeals!

Thomas Falconer
kgb

I posted on Monday that CBS has banned one of the commercials we submitted from airing during the big game. We really do think the ad is hilarious and so do many of kgb’s fans.

So go to huffingtonpost.com and vote for the kgb video. Be sure to watch it while you’re there too, so that our youtube views go up.

Everyone I’ve shown the commercial to loves it. So show it to your friends and post it on your facebook profile.

Thomas Falconer
kgb

There has been lots of speculation on our facebook page and in the press about our ad and we can guarantee there are exciting things coming – watch this space!

We launched the kgb text service a little over a year ago. At the time, we figured that the service would appeal only to heavy texters, tweens to teens.

We found though, that we had much broader appeal. Young adults are using kgb to find restaurants, get train schedules, and settle bar bets. Parents, especially moms of tweens and teens are using the service as a better way to get information, to get answers to their questions.

So our ad campaign has evolved along with this wider adoption of the service. So while we have ads like this:

we also have ads like this:

So, it makes perfect sense for kgb to advertise during one of the most watched TV programs of the year, when almost 100 million people will be watching. From the beginning, our ads have been edgy, provocative, funny. And the ad we choose to air during the Super Bowl will continue that tradition. We are, though, very excited about playing in the super bowl field after launching only a year ago.

Thomas Falconer
Director, Social Media
kgb

kgb has been engaged deeply in social media since we launched our service a little over a year ago.

One of the ads we’ve produced stars Stephen and William Baldwin.

After only just celebrating our first anniversary, we’re already jumping in and advertising with the big brands during one of the biggest TV events of the year. So we have a lot to be excited about.

We’ve been getting lots of press about running an ad during the super bowl — almost 100 million people will be watching the game, and the ads are talked about for days afterward.

Here’s one of the articles, from the New York Post. Stay tuned for more news and info on kgb’s super bowl ads.

kgb is advertising its 542542 text messaging service during Super Bowl XLIV on February 7, 2010. . . and we’re running a huge promotion for our Special Agents who schedule and work from 8-10PM ET on game day to help us support the text volumes we expect to receive once our in-game ad hits!

kgb is offering:

– Special pay for a special day
On Sunday, February 7th, from 8PMET to 10PM ET when the kgb in-game Super Bowl commercial hits and immediately following,  Special Agents will earn:
– $0.50 for researched answers

– $0.25 for database answers

Post game: From Sunday, February 7th at 10PM ET through Tuesday, february 9th at 3AM ET after the Super Bowl game ends, Special Agents will earn:

– $0.30 for researched answers

– $0.15 for database answers

– the chance to enter contests and win prizes
–  Cash. We’ll award 500 agents with $10

–  Prizes. We’ll award 250 agents with kgb gear

–  Text credits. We’ll award 250 agents with 10 texting credits
– the chance to have kgb help pay your bills for a year
–  Rent:  kgb will pay up to $750 a month for 12 months toward rent, mortgage, or room and board — 1 winner.

– Groceries. kgb will pay up to $350 per month for 12 months for your groceries — 1 winner.

–  Utilities. kgb will pay up to $200 per month for 12 months toward electric/gas, etc for a year — 1 winner.

– Cell phones. kgb will pay up to $100 for 12 months toward your cell phone bill — 1 winner.

–  Fuel. kgb will pay $50 per month for 12 months for gasoline — 5 winners.

– referral bonuses for referring your friends, family, co-workers
Refer your friends, family, co-workers and fill out the form at http://www.surveymonkey.com/Y3NTYTB
You will receive $5 per referral paid to both referring agent and referred agent (referred agent must be a new recruit, both must work 8PM ET – 10PM ET during the Super Bowl, and other program requirements apply).
If you are interested in helping out for this tremendous event (and even staying on with us afterward), please visit http://542542.com/agent to learn about becoming a Special Agent.

Once you’ve visited this page, move on to http://beginkgb.com/challenge/ to take the Special Agent Challenge!

FYI: You ARE allowed to use search tools and the web to answer the questions on the Challenge. New agents must take training and pass the certification test by no later than January 31, 2010.

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kgb_ Special Agents are tireless and relentless in their search for the answers to America’s questions.  And what does America want to know, you ask?  Well, today’s buzz centers on new age lifestyles:

What’s the caveman lifestyle?

Know more:

A small subculture of New York City folks are aspiring cavemen.  With good health as the goal, cavemen are setting up meat lockers in their homes to serve as a resting place for organ meat and deer ribs.

The caveman lifestyle focuses on the consumption of vast quantities of meat coupled with a period of fasting between meals.  (Vacillating between pigging out and fasting mimics Paleolithic man’s eating patterns between hunts.)

Followers of the caveman lifestyle consume fruits and vegetables but avoid bread (it wasn’t around back then.) They see the human form as specifically designed for hunting and gathering and, as a result, participate in exercises activities that involve sprinting and jumping.  (Act like you’re avoiding a mastodon.)

The group of followers of the caveman lifestyle took it up after researching health concerns online.  They read about the merits of paleolithic diets and evolutionary fitness routines like leaping between boulders and playing catch with stones.

The few women involved in the movement prefer the term “hunter-gatherer” over caveman and some cavemen-types prefer the term “paleo man.”

One of the most interesting features of the caveman lifestyle is the promotion of donating blood frequently.  Why?  The idea is that the hardships of caveman life probably left humans short a pint of blood from time to time.

Take a look at the paleo group in New York and you’ll see lean, muscular people with glowing skin.  Some report they no longer get sick.  But don’t ask a paleo man to eat a tomato.  They’re part of the nightshade family and weren’t around in caveman times.

kgb_   Text your question to 542542. We answer to you.

Source:   The New Age Cavemen and the City

kgb_ Special Agents are tireless and relentless in their search for the answers to America’s questions.  And what does America want to know, you ask?  Well, today’s buzz centers on dogs with physical challenges:

Can a two-legged dog walk like a human?

Know more:

Faith Stringfellow is a lab-chow mix who walks around on two legs like a human.  Faith and her owner, Jude Stringfellow tour the country inspiring folks with disabilities with their “Faith Walks” campaign.

Born to a junkyard dog, rejected, abused and having two shriveled front legs, Faith was rescued by Jude’s son Reuben.  He brought the puppy home to his mother and asked “Can we fix her?”

In the beginning, the family carried Faith around to keep her off her chest and chin.  Then they started using peanut butter as a reward to get her up and moving on her back two legs.  With plenty of Peter Pan and practice, Faith learned to walk on her two hind legs and has become a brisk, steady walker. She runs, hops, skips, and trips less than most humans.  Fortified with vitamins and joint supplements, she’s as healthy as a horse.

Faith and Jude have been on the talk show circuit since 2003 and Faith’s spirit has inspired two books. The pair get more than 200 letters and emails a day from folks inspired by the upright walking dog.  They write about Faith’s powerful message of overcoming adversity.

Faith’s Story

kgb_   Text your question to 542542. We answer to you.

Source:  Two-legged dog gives hope to disabled Army vets

Yankees vs Phillies, Game 2 of the 2009 World Series.

kgb special agents take over Yankee Stadium.

with NYC Mayor Bloomberg