Advertising Is Good For You

Throwback Thursday: young Bill Gates plugs the Wall Street Journal

1980s ad for the Wall Street Journal featuring a very young Bill Gates holding a floppy disk.

Via my vintage advertising blog Found in Mom's Basement.

Apple holiday ad blamed for making millions cry

Okay, that's just my assumption. Because this is a beautiful ad.

Click here to watch Misunderstood, Apple's holiday TV commercial.

Smell-o-text

Here's a device that allows you to text a smell to a friend anywhere in the world — provided your friend has the device, too.

It's called the Ophone and it connects to your smartphone via Bluetooth. Ophone offers 320 different smells and claims to allow you to make a more intimate connection between users.

Just what I need. A device that would allow my brothers to send me fart smell anytime they want.

 

Via Springwise

Happy Halloween commercial from AT&T

Very funny. Love the bats at the end.

Click here to watch AT&T's Halloween TV spot.

Pinterest FAIL

This is what sometimes happens when you log on to Pinterest on a five-year-old laptop.

 

Let's take a closer look.

 

I really need to buy a new laptop.

Yummy graphic design for Android

Android has a tradition of naming each of its operating systems after a dessert.

With the recent launch of Android KitKat, the techonology company hired B-Reel to create a website that highlights all the Android dessert names. Here are some images from that site.

Click the image to enlarge it.

 

Via Behance

Samsung Smart TV commercial

Every time this commercial for the Samsung Smart TV comes one (actually, the :30 version of it), I stop what I'm doing and watch. Love everything about it. But what I love most are the frames toward the end that include the dinosaur.

Music is "Run" by Kill It Kid.

Click here to watch the TV commercial for Samsung's Smart TV.

 

 

 

Advertising installations for IBM

These advertising installations were created for IBM by Ogilvy & Mather, France.

 

 

Junk drawer advertising

Created by M&C Saatchi Abel, Johannesburg.

"All by myself. Don't want to be all by myself. Send your old tech to a better place. Trade in and upgrade 16 Feb – 28 March."

"I used to have a corner office. Send your old tech to a better place. Trade in and upgrade 16 Feb – 28 March."

"Now all I capture is dust. Send your old tech to a better place. Trade in and upgrade 16 Feb – 28 March."

Via Ads of the World

Can't help but laugh like a 12-year old boy when I see this company's name

BlueStacks creates outrageously insulting icons for its infographic

This infographic from BlueStacks illustrates the average female Mac user.

It's cute and fun. Until you get to the part referring to average ages. Let's look at a close up.

Okay, it's kind of a blurry close up. And I can't fix it because my husband is the Photoshop wiz in our family and he's not here to sharpen the image. But you're smart. You can see what's going on here.

The icon for women aged 51 to 60 years looks like Queen Elizabeth II. It even includes the monarch's ubiquitous handbag. Trouble is, the Queen of England is not 51 to 60, she's 86.

The icon depicting women over 60 looks like England's beloved late Queen Mother. She was 101 years old when she died.

F*ck you and your ageist icons, BlueStacks.

P.S. This is what 50+ looks like. And, yes, I use a Mac.

Control freak FiOS mom

The latest in my series called "Hating People in TV Commercials is Fun."

Right around the :18 mark this FiOS mom goes from being controlling to kind of creepy.

Click here to watch the spot.

I hate CVS's annoying Segway senior, too.

Best. Casting. Ever.

LOVE the kid in this Sprint TV spot.

Click here to watch the Sprint TV spot, "Graduation."