Advertising Is Good For You

Nice wine bottle

Source: The Dieline

Four Movie Posters for 2012

ADDENDUM posted 5 September 2009

One more . . .

Source: Internet Movie Poster Awards

Crime-solving billboards

The FBI is using billboard advertising in an attempt to catch an alleged bank robber. The suspect is being charged with the armed robbery of 10 banks across four states.

 

Photos taken by surveillance camera's during the bank robberies are being displayed on electronic billboards in eight southern states.

The whole venture is part of a partnership between the FBI and the billboards' owners.

Click here to read more. 

If by some chance you know where this guy is, the FBI asks that you call the FBI or local law enforcement.

Celebrity Saturday: Mariah Carey's over-photoshopped fragrance ad

Porno candy

A West Yorkshire, England father had a heated exchange with the shop manager who sold the father these sour candies for his children. As the father put it:

The lemon and lime are locked in what appears to be a carnal encounter... The lime, whom I assume to be the gentleman in this coupling, has a particularly lurid expression on his face.

 

I agree, these do look pretty dirty.

But instead of yelling at the shopkeeper, I would have been snickering and buying up all the candies to give away as gag gifts to my friends.

Read more at the Daily Mail.

Another cool concert poster for the Decemberists

Click here to see some older concert posters for the Decemberists.

Source: Ffffound

Introducing the Poo Trap

The Poo Trap is a contraption that's supposed to make curbing your dog as easy as pulling a plastic bag off your dog's ass.

Yeah.

The commercial doesn't mention how one gets the harness on the dog or -- even more interesting -- how one attaches the plastic bag over the dog's butt hole without being torn to shreds by the poor dog.

I do like the tagline, though: No poops, No oops.

Click here to watch the TV commercial for the Poo Trap.

Ad campaign from India

I don't understand the concept behind this campaign for cookies (or maybe it's a candy bar?), but I love the artwork. Click on each image to see the collages up close.

Advertising Agency: McCann Erickson, Bangalore

Illustrator: Sameer Kulavoor

Source: Ads of the World

Warning: just reading this post might give you a heart attack

Behold the KFC Double Down Chicken Sandwich. Bacon, pepper jack cheese, Swiss cheese and the Colonel's sauce between two pieces of bread fried chicken.

 

Can you hear that? It sounds like four horsemen.

Source: Food Geekery

Ageism and sexism in advertising media buys

More is a magazine that targets women over 40. Its average reader makes about $93,000. That's $30,000 MORE than the average reader of Vogue, Allure or Bazaar.

Yet, as the New York Times points out, More features hardly any ads for luxury products.

So, what do advertisers feel are the appropriate products to sell to financially successful women over 40?

Crystal Light, Pringles, Coffee-Mate, Oscar Mayer, Bertolli, Tyson, Marie Callender's, wines under $10 and cat food.

Source: Jezebel

Anti-discrimination ads from the Netherlands

Should you have to hide the real you to be accepted?

Advertising Agency: imagine, Amsterdam

Source: Ads of the World

Tragically inappropriate contextual ads

Business Insider has put together a collection of Google contextual ads that illustrate the drawback of the medium.

 CLICK HERE to see Business Insider's complete collection of unfortunate contextual ads.

CLICK HERE to see another troubling example I posted earlier this year.

Art from phone books

Philadelphia sculptor Alex Queral creates artworks from discarded phone directories.

Using an artist's scalpel or regular razor blades, he carves 3-D images into the phone directories. The result is a bas relief of paper.

Source: Daily Mail