Archive for the ‘advertising’ Category
the problem with logo wear
what happens when the wrong person is seen wearing your logo: paris is apperently trying to reinvent herself as gwen stefani from 10 years ago. at least christina aguilera is only trying to re-invent herself as gwen from 3 years. so for her b-boy streetwear phase, paris gets some promo shots taken wearin a modded […]
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gay kisses and snickers dreams
so snickers runs this ad during the superbowl… and based on that alone, lots of gays were amused and lots of straights were bored. the commercial was safe enough to make everyone happy. which is fine. boring, but fine. but along with that commerical, snickers also put up a website at both snickerssatisfies.com and afterthekiss.com […]
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reading the zunes
this pic (click for biggernator) from engadget basically says all there is to say about why like all of microsoft’s first efforts, the new zune is gonna suck. i know i’m gonna come off like a total apple fan boy here, and in some ways i am. but if you need a kiosk and a […]
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tolerate mornings
the best commercial for the worst coffee. wake up you sleepy head, you can sleep when you (clap clap) dead. thanks boing boing.
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dreaming of electric sheep
take one look at the A170 video lightsign airship. it’s a blimp with a huge color LCD on the side to display video advertising. look familiar? are images of pan asian ladies taking pills then smiling running through the back of your mind? between this, all the huge megatower construction projects, and everything else, the […]
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damn commercials
there are periods in advertising history when a catchy song starts to peak just as it’s been licensed for a commercial. i’m not talking about how everyone and his brother has been using postal service songs (or covers of them) because although they are catchy (in an emo sort of way), they are sadly past […]
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stop shouting
back in the old days of advertising, they used to believe that commercials should be louder than tv shows so it would grab our attention. but over time we learned that as things got loud, we should probably ignore them because they were commercials. so smart advertisers realized we were resisting because we didn’t want […]
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you got an F
actually, they get an A. vw has done it again. since the last cabriolet commercial (like 2 years ago) vw’s advertising has fallen somewhere between boring and “they have commercials?” for some reason they decided to ditch their youthful appeal and try to focus on an older market segment, both in their advertising and their […]
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is this fooling anyone?
the commercials for roll bounce are part of a pitiful new trend in movie advertising. some movies are so bad not even the critics from st.louis can be fooled into giving them a tepid review that advertisers can then chop up with ellipses and turn into glowing approbation. so they’re forced to get celebrity spokesmodels […]
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old school is new school
apparently the past couple years’ electro phase and the returned interest in 80s music has revived interest in old school rap among the kids. not only does j c penney have black sheep in their ad but target just launched a back to school ad for friggin backpacks to sir mix-a-lot’s baby got back. only […]
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