Advertising Is Good For You

Don Draper paper doll

Cardboard cut-out dolls by illustrator Andres Martinez Ricci, available for purchase at Trimdoll.

Click here to see The Oatmeal's take on What Would Don Draper Do?

Hostess becomes the official snack cake of Transformers

Hostess is selling two limited-edition snack cakes (tenuously) tied to the launch of the movie Transformers Dark of the Moon, Chocwave Shockwave and Snoballimus Optimus Prime.

There's a corresponding contest, too — Click here to enter.

Click here to see Eggo frozen waffles' tie-in to Star Trek.

Mad Men Barbies

Click here to see Mad Men paper dolls created by illustrator Dyna Moe

Star Trek Eggo waffles

Kellogg's is introducing limited edition Eggo waffles featuring Star Trek images and phrases. An important part of a nutritious breakfast for adult men still living in their parents' basements.

 

Previously in Eggo news...

Source: Trek Movie

Celebrity Saturday: Robert Pattinson panties

A fan of Twitarded created these Robert Pattinson panties for the bloggers' amusement. Thankfully (or maybe not), they decided to share these scanties with the world.

Panties front:

Panties back:

And the inside crotch:

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.

Spiderman in advertising round-up

Spiderman first appeared in a comic book forty-seven years ago this month.

 
 

Reese's Batman movie tie-in

Think there's a promotional message on the inside of the wrapper? I'd better buy some. Just to be sure.

Source: Slashfood

Celebrity Saturday: Christian Bale's got milk

Source: I Watch Stuff

Snakes. Rolling boulder. Allusion to Citizen Kane. But I don't remember any minty-chocolate goodness.

The tie-in between Mint Crisp M&Ms and the Indiana Jones franchise is about as tenuous as a rickety rope bridge.

Source: Slashfood

Advertising in movie theaters

Revenue from on-screen advertising shown before movies, as well as off-screen movie theater promotions such as lobby displays and ads on popcorn boxes, was $456 million in 2006, up 15% from the previous year.

Source: USA Today

Image: mhergert.com
 

Philadelphia must be as tight-assed as Boston

This week, Philadelphians put the kibosh on plans to drape the Inquirer-Daily News Building in a massive ad  for Jerry Seinfeld's upcoming film, Bee Movie  -- a computer-generated family movie about a bee. The ad was to include a 50-foot inflatable bee. How freakin' cool is that?

Can you imagine the delight on the faces of children looking up at the giant cartoon-ish bee? Can you see in your mind's eye the spontaneous smiles on the faces of commuters walking by the Inquirer-Daily News Building? Can you smell the extra tax dollars garnered from the families who'd make a day out of a trip downtown to see the bee spectacle?

The Bee Movie ad was only going to be up for three weeks, yet a bunch of Philadelphia killjoys acted as though Jerry Seinfeld were suggesting melting the Liberty Bell for scrap and replacing it with a neon dollar sign.

Philadelphians don't get to have any fun. Too bad.

Window Installations for Spiderman 3

Source: Scary Ideas