AdSense
-
Recent Posts
- Does a suggestive vegetable make you want to buy something? Me, neither.
- " Your recent near-death experience may have been our fault. Here's 30% off to give us another try."
- Becca Kallem's animals love their luxury brands
- Carlsburg and I wish you a Happy Chinese New Year
- The most succinct post-primary headline
- Movie Poster: Project X
- Celebrity Saturday: Emma Watson for Lancome
- Model Hanaa Ben Abdesslem will be the first-ever Muslim face of Lancome
- The Oatmeal's brilliantly funny explanation of SOPA and PIPA
- Most outrageous reasons people give for being late to work
AdSense
-
Categories
- Ad Agency Self Promotion
- Ad I'm Glad I Wasn't Asked To Do
- Advertising and Marketing Terms
- Advertising Arts & Crafts
- Advertising From Overseas
- Advertising Icons
- Advertising Images
- Advertising Myths
- Advertising that Gives Advertising a Bad Name
- Advertising to Children
- Advertising to Gays
- Advertising to Men
- Advertising to Parents
- Advertising to Students
- Advertising to Teens
- Advertising to Women
- Advertising to Young Adults
- Advertising-Inspired Art
- Agriculture Advertising
- Alcoholic Beverage Advertising
- Altered Ads
- Ambient Advertising
- Annual Reports
- Art-inspired Advertising
- Automotive Advertising
- B2B Advertising
- Bad Clients
- Beverage (non-alcoholic) Advertising
- Blogs
- Brand Name Tattoos
- Brand Names
- Branding
- Cats (because it's my blog)
- Cause-Related Advertising and Fundraising
- Celebrities
- Celebrity Saturday
- Condom Advertising
- Contextual Advertising
- Controversial Advertising
- Copywriting
- Corporate Responsibility
- Cosmetic and Fragrance Advertising
- Coupon Advertising
- Creepy
- Crowdsource
- Customer Service
- Damage Control
- Deceptive Advertising
- Digital Advertising
- Direct Mail
- Direct Response Advertising
- Dubious Holidays (Usually Created By Marketers)
- Dumb Things Marketing Folks Say
- Education Advertising
- Email Advertising
- Entertainment Advertising
- Environmental Concerns and Advertising
- Ethics, Advertising and Otherwise
- Event Marketing
- Facts and Figures
- Fashion/Clothing/Footwear Advertising
- Fast Food Advertising
- Film and TV Tie-Ins
- Financial Services Advertising
- Food Advertising
- Free Stuff
- Fun
- Good Clients
- Graphic Design
- Guerrilla Marketing
- Healthcare Advertising
- Holiday Advertising
- Household Products Advertising
- Identity Programs
- Inspiration
- Interactive Advertising
- Licensing
- Line/Product Extension
- Logo
- Loyalty Programs
- Luxury Brands
- Mad Men
- Magazine Covers
- Marketing Research
- Media
- Media Industry
- Merchandising
- Missed Opportunities
- Mobile Advertising
- Mobile Applications
- Movie Posters
- Music Industry
- Music Industry Advertising
- New Advertising
- New Product
- New Product Advertising
- New Service
- Newspaper Insert
- Outdoor Advertising
- Outsourcing
- Personalization
- Pet Industry
- Pet-Related Industry Advertising
- Pharmaceutical Advertising
- Photoshopping
- Podcasts
- Political Advertising
- Pop Culture
- Posters
- Premiums/Giveaways
- Print Advertising
- Product Demonstration
- Product Packaging
- Product Placement
- Product Testing
- Professional Services Advertising
- Proofreading
- Psychographics
- Public Relations
- Public Service Announcements (PSAs)
- Publishing Industry
- Questionable Use of a Product
- Racism in Advertising
- Real Estate Advertising
- Recruitment Advertising
- Regrettable Results
- Religion
- Restaurant Advertising
- Results-Driven Advertising
- Retail Industry Advertising
- Retail Promotions
- Roadside Treasures
- Sales Promotion
- Search Engines
- Sexist Advertising
- Small Businesses
- Social Media
- Social Responsibility in Advertising
- Spam Advertising
- Spokespeople & Other Spokesbeings
- Sponsorship
- Spoof Ads
- Sports
- Sports-Related Advertising
- Stock Images
- Tag Lines
- Technology Advertising
- Telemarketing
- The (Misguided) Case Against Advertising
- Toiletries and Personal Products Advertising
- Trademarks
- Traffic Building
- Transit Advertising
- Travel and Tourism Advertising
- TV Advertising
- Typography
- Vintage Advertising
- Viral Marketing
- Websites
- Weird
- Wordsmithing
- WTF?
- Zombies (see Cats)
Blogs That Are Good For You
- Ad Blog Arabia
- Ad Chick
- adfreak
- Ads of the World
- adverlicious
- advertising/design goodness
- AdVerve
- Allan Peters' Blog
- BB-Blog
- Cherryflava
- Copyranter
- Design*Sponge
- Ffffound!
- Finie Ramos .:My World is in My Imaginations:.
- IMP Awards
- Lovely Package
- make the logo bigger
- Notcot
- Packaging of the World
- Pristina | Everything Design
- Radio Free Babylon
- ShareSomeCandy
- The Consumerist
- The Dieline
- The Oatmeal
- Toxel
- Where's My Jetpack?
AdSense
-
« December 2008 | Main | February 2009 »
31 January 2009
30 January 2009
Puzzling movie tie-in
Take your eyes off the crappy computer-generated product images for just a moment (I know it's hard, but try) and see if you can find any correlation between teeth whitening strips and a movie about women who don't know when they've been dumped.
HP Mini Vivienne Tam PC: The World's First Digital Clutch
HP is offering a special Vivienne Tam Edition mini personal computer. Both the PC case and accompanying sleeve feature an Asian-inspired peony design created by fashion designer Vivienne Tam. It's gorgeous and only $699.99. Learn more at the HP website.
29 January 2009
Three things you didn't know about Vince the Sham Wow guy
1. He once sued Anna Nicole Smith.
2. He used to sell products at flea markets.
3. His real first name is -- are you ready? -- OFFER!
2. He used to sell products at flea markets.
3. His real first name is -- are you ready? -- OFFER!
Learn more at CNBC where you'll find an interview with Vince the Sham Wow guy.
By the way, my theory about Vince's parentage was incorrect.
Most Creative Use of Hacking Skills
Yesterday, someone hacked into the computer that controls the digital road signs near the intersections of Lamar and Martin Luther King boulevards in Austin, Texas:
The nighttime view is even better:
Learn more at Austin News KXAN.
ADDENDUM posted 02/02/09
Mazda ad campaign targeting college students
"Every grad gets $500 off any purchase or lease of a brand new Mazda."
Advertising Agency: Doner Canada
Source: Ads of the World
What to do with leftover Letraset
FYI, young'uns, THIS is Letraset.
See an ad campaign that uses a similar concept HERE.
Source: Delicious Industries
28 January 2009
Free coffee at Panera Bread
Panera Bread is giving away free cups of coffee today along with samples of their breakfast menu selections.
Tomato is the new pickle
After more than a hundred years of featuring a gherkin pickle on its ketchup labels, H.J. Heinz has decided a tomato would be more appropriate.
See an unusual ad campaign from the U.K. for Heinz ketchup HERE.
