McDonald's taking on Starbucks

A new McDonald's McCafe coffee ad further pierces the Achilles heel Starbucks has developed in today's economy.

Two weeks ago, Starbucks Corp. Chief Executive Howard Schultz told shareholders the gourmet coffee company had allowed itself to be defined as the $4 coffee chain and the "poster child for excess."

Watch this to see how McDonald's takes the war to a new level:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg87E1tjTOE

Now a question: Is anyone buying $4 coffees? $3 coffees? Where do you draw the limit on coffee prices?

Clowning around the world

McDonald's new Filet-O-Fish ad with a singing, wall-mounted fish has become a viral sensation.

I didn't find it as interesting as trolling through some of the other Mickey D's ad links that come up alongside it on YouTube.

These two ads -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVcRecCk8sw and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6n9JBlebFw&feature=related -- give the most unusual extrapolation of the image of Ronald McDonald that I've ever seen.