Monthly Archives: August 2011

Sex Appeal

  Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson © Universal Uclick – All Rights Reserved. August 29, 2011 from www.gocomics.com  

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Just because chemists can make it …

…. doesn’t mean that we should eat it.

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Real women striking model poses in public

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.    

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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

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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:

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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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