Advertising Is Good For You

The Hipmunk chipmunk

My new favorite brand mascot — the Hipmunk chipmunk is the symbol for the online travel planning site.

The only other brand mascots that even approach this level of cuteness are the Porter Airlines raccoons.

The MTV Airbus, illustrated by Andy Ward

 

Illustrator Andy Ward created the design for this Vueling Airlines Airbus. The client was MTV.

Click here to see more of Andy Ward's work.

Godspeed

The Messiah Travel is a travel agency in Salem, Massachusetts.

City posters by Yoni Alter

Click here to see more city posters created by Yoni Alter.

This commercial is sure to offend somebody

This commercial from Kayak illustrates an outrageous breach of medical ethics. That's why it's so damn funny.

Click here to watch Kayak's brain surgery spot.

Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has its bloomers in a bunch

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

At least that's what the tag line promises. And the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority takes that tag line very seriously.

The Authority is shocked and outraged that someone in Las Vegas broke the Las Vegas gentleman's code and got pics of Prince Harry hiding his naughty bits and little else.

Goodness gracious.

Here's the full-page ad the Authority recently ran in USA Today.

Via Business Insider

OK, I believe, you. Your hotel is REALLY cheap.

Ad for the Hans Brinker Budget Hotel.

Click here to see a few more ads for the Hans Brinker Budget Hotel.

Via Cool Hunting

$19.80 fares to Cartagena, Columbia, hookers not included

Spirit Airlines had to pull this ad alluding to the recent Secret Service agents and prostitutes scandal. 

People found the ad offensive.

And Spirit didn't see that coming?

Virginia is for zombies

Found on Pinterest/Run for Your Lives

" Your recent near-death experience may have been our fault. Here's 30% off to give us another try."

Following the Costa Concordia disaster off the coast of Italy, the ship's parent company, Carnival Corp., is trying to do some damage control. Emphasis on trying.

Carnival if offering all the passengers of the ill-fated cruise a refund. So far, so good.

Carnival is also offering some passengers — just some, not all, mind you — 30% off future cruises.

Click here to read about another effort at damage control after a different marine disaster.

 

Via Huffington Post
Image: Sinking of the M.S. Wilhelm Gustloff,
Irwin J. Kappes

KLM. About to become the official airline of stalkers and overzealous networkers.

According to Silicon Republic:

Dutch airliner KLM is going to allow its passengers to pre-book their seats by scanning Facebook and LinkedIn so they can pair up with the person who most takes their fancy before they take flight. It could be a new era for online dating and business networking, taking it to the skies.

KLM is calling the new service "Meet & Seat."

Malaysia Airlines has a similar service in the works.

Fortunately, one will have to opt-in to use the service. (Guess which curmudgeonly blogger will most certainly not be opting in.)

Click here to see an ad campaign for JetBlue.

Lookalike ad campaigns

Saw this online ad on the New York Times homepage this morning:

Which reminded me of Mullen's current campaign for JetBlue:

Click here to see another example of eerily similar ad campaigns.

Nice score, WestJet

If only all spontaneous, unsolicited brand endorsements were this much fun.