Advertising Is Good For You

When alpacas smile at you, you have to smile back

Just noticed that half of my posts from the past week or so have been negative.

We've had so many rainy, gloomy days recently in the Boston area, it's affected my mood.

So here's something that always makes me smile.

When I win the Lottery, I'm going have alpacas and llamas as pets.

Chris Parnell and Friskies think your cat lays around too much

Friskies hired comedian Chris Parnell to star in its latest commercial for cat treats. It's hysterical.

Click here to watch Chris Parnell in the Friskies commercial.

Celebrity Saturday: Cee Lo Green for Meow Mix cat food

Cee Lo Green got his cat Purrfect from an animal shelter. Now he's teaming up with Meow Mix cat food to raise money for pet shelters.

He's created a remix of Meow Mix's famous "meow, meow, meow" jingle.

Click here to listen to Cee Lo Green's remix of the Meow Mix jingle. For every download, the cat food brand will donate brand will donate a pound of Meow Mix to the Los Angeles branch of Pets Are Wonderful Support (PAWS).

Click here to watch the original Meow Mix jingle being sung by a cat.

Via AdFreak

Animal Alphabet by artist Casey Girard

Purchase the poster of the whole alphabet or individual letters at Fab.com.

Alas, there is no X in Casey Girard's animal alphabet.

Click here to see an alphabet that's definitely not for children.

Great interactive advertising for Frontline flea control

This is an overhead view of the first floor of a multi-level mall. How cool is that?

Click here to see another wonderful example of ambient advertising.

Via Copyranter

Wish I'd done this Purina spot

Animal lovers — dog lovers especially — will adore this commercial.

Click here to watch this wonderful Purina Pro Plan TV commercial.

Then click here to see another dog food spot, from a couple of years ago, that elevates dogs to greatness in a different way.

 

The most succinct post-primary headline

From Huffington Post.

Wonderful packaging from a wonderfully named cat food brand

I give you Snookums cat food.

Click here to see another pet food with clever packaging.

Via Dieline

For a good time, follow @BronxZoosCobra

The runaway snake has a Twitter account and it's hysterical.

Rachel Ray has finally run out of ideas for cooking chicken

Via The Daily What

Cat owners will appreciate this TV commercial

Click here to see the TV commercial for Temptation cat treats.

If you don't have cats, enjoy the luxury of being able to leave clean laundry unattended with no worries.

Cat feces make it into an ad

33% of American households include cats.

In 2009, U.S. cat litter sales totaled $1.83 billion.

This is the first cat litter ad to use the term feces.

 

Found at The New York Times

Quiznos uses off-key kittens to sell fast food

Click here to watch kittens sell Quiznos fast food.

 

I'm sure Quiznos is hoping this spot goes viral. But YouTube already has an abundance of funny animals and the competition is tough. Take, for example, the hysterical Batman theme-singing pug.

Click here to watch the pug dog sing the Batman theme song.