Advertising Is Good For You

Don't be a douche

Overheard two IT guys talking about the potential audience for a new online game. 

One guy asked the other, "I wonder who would engage with it?"

He could have said, "I wonder who would play it?" But he chose to be a douche instead.

Passwords you should change because of the Heartbleed bug

Mashable has posted a list of websites to help you determine if you should change some of your passwords. I found it very helpful and have been passing it along to all my friends.

Click here to see Mashables Heartbleed Hit List.

FYI, the Heartbleed bug logo was created by Finnish cybersecurity company Codenomicon.

How many boys regret learning about online porn long before discovering the ‘clear history’ command?

 

Via a Facebook friend

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