Advertising Is Good For You

How to piss off women at bus shelters

Hey, Fattie, sit on the bench at this bus shelter and your weight will appear in the ad for Fitness First.

Click here to see a much nicer bench.

Via Adhibition

Clever billboard

Cut-outs on the billboard help illustrate Kolestan Naturals many hair colors.

Click here to see another example of clever outdoor advertising.

Via The Meta Picture

Valentine's billboard from Lebanon

Aishti is a luxury store in Lebanon.

Click here to see a billboard FAIL from a Mobile, Alabama TV station.

Via Brofessional Review

BMW billboard kicks Audi billboard's ass

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Personally, I think Audi doomed itself as soon as it decided to run a billboard in which its competitor's name is larger than its own.

Via Alicam's Coolinks

Celebrity Saturday: Patrick Schwarzenegger for Hudson jeans

Son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver.

Click here to see one of Daddy Schwarzenegger's celebrity endorsements.

Via Huffington Post

Very cool outdoor Lego ads

Via Buzz Feed

Billboards introducing Papaya King to LA

Advertising Agency: Mistress, USA

Via Ads of the World

Get to know your neighbors

The neighbors will come running when you turn your house into a billboard.

Adzookie is looking for interested homeowners. If your house makes the cut, they'll pay your mortgage for every month it remains painted.

Get all the details, including a sign up form, at Adzookie.

How a Florida church attracts new congregants

Via Daily Mail

More insensitive advertising

First a tasteless Groupnon ad mocks the people of Tibet.

Then an outrageous Kenneth Cole tweet tries to link its store opening in Cairo with the recent protests in Egypt.

And now a billboard for La Senorita restaurants makes light of the Jonestown massacre.

Via Lansing State Journal

Celebrity Saturday: Jack Black in creepy Gulliver's Travels billboard

The Lilliputians have the right idea.

The copywriter should have seen this coming

No pun intended.

Click image to enlarge.

Found at Damn Cool Pictures.

Them!

Like a horror movie come to life, Black Flag projected giant crawling ants on the side of a Houston building to promote the company's ant spray.

Click here to see Black Flag's giant ants in action.

1954 classic, Them!, featured giant ants terrorizing New Mexico. It's a lot of fun if you like black & white cornball sci-fi movies.