Advertising Is Good For You

Jack-o-lantern

'Jack-o-lantern' is one of my favorite words.

Happy Halloween!

Via SMBC

Zombies are doing their best to save our economy

According to the Wall Street Journal, the zombie genre economy is worth billions of dollars. That includes revenues from movie tickets, TV shows, DVDs, gaming, comic books, novels, Halloween costumes, etc.

Click here to read more about the zombie economy.

Click here to see a zombie engagement announcement.

Image via The Walking Dead

Scary things come to those who don't brush

TV commercial for Crest Oral-b, created by Publicis, New York.

Click here to see the Crest Oral-b commercial.

Movie Poster: The Woman in Black

The eyes alone make this poster scary. Look more carefully and you'll also see a ghoul's face hovering above the children.

Via IMP Awards

Tums spelled backwards is smut, after all

My, what a big corn dog you have.

Click here to see the very phallic Tums commercial.

Celebrity Saturday: Martha "Motha" Stewart

Martha Stewart on the cover of the October issue of Martha Stewart Living.

Music Posters

Found at Gig Posters

Newspaper couture

Via Too Cute Things

Absolut-ly gay

Absolut vodka is running this ad to celebrate the brand's 30 years of advertising to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

Absolut was a pioneer in recognizing that the LGBT community are "trendsetters whose brand-buying habits would eventually be adopted by younger, hipper segments of the market."

Read more about it in this New York Times article.

Click here to see a Campbell's soup ad that features a same-sex couple and their son.

Today's most intriguing headline . . .

Doll saves family from fire

Click here to see two funny headlines from April 16th, 2010.

Image via Kind of Creepy

Guinness Halloween ad

The true brew of Halloween.

Click image to enlarge.

Ad created by The Marketing Store, Toronto.

Click here to see a wonderfully creepy Halloween ad for Chronic'art Magazine.

Via Ads of the World

Good advice for advertising people

Click here to read about a client whom I was tempted to kill.

Via Cakehead

You never know when this kind of information could be useful

According to a report by a British research firm, "It turns out cheese is the most stolen food in the world."

Click here to see an ad full of a different kind of cheese.

 

Via Huffington Post