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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Sex Appeal
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson © Universal Uclick – All Rights Reserved. August 29, 2011 from www.gocomics.com
Just because chemists can make it …
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6WDLk-Z6q8&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] …. doesn’t mean that we should eat it.
Real women striking model poses in public
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPEcdcmnAA0[/youtube] from artist YolandaDominguez
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Copy-mather needed?
We have copywriters, who hopefully are good writers, do we need copy-mathers, copy-calculators, copy-figurers? 1 original bar increase by 200% 1 *2.00 = add 2 bars to increase by 200% 1 original bar + 2 bars = 3 bars. According to … Continue reading
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Sexual/Controversial
Here’s another ad from that campaign I referred to earlier.
I am underwhelmed by this story
And I shouldn’t be. It’s exciting. A legal fight between two companies over their ads with both sides citing “experimental” research. Scorecard: Kraft = Oscar Mayer & Sara Lee = Ball Park. “Sara Lee argued a Kraft ad campaign falsely claimed … Continue reading
The amazing tweets of 50 cent
Over the weekend of January 8-9, 2011; rapper 50 cent made several tweets about HNHI, a headphone company. The next Monday the stock shot up 240%, $50 million. All of Mr Cent’s tweets are not as golden, though:
File this under stealth advertising
I’ve mentioned advertising which co-ops something else, such as a police recruitment campaign which co-ops the techniques of illegal (thus, anti-police) graffiti art. Co-optation is stealing the techniques from another in spite of philosophical differences. And then there are ads which go far beyond … Continue reading
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Agreed! The most magnificent beer ad ever.
Copyranter called this the most magnificent beer ad ever.
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New Zealand police co-op street art
M&C Saatchi | The Inspiration Room
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