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When I grow up, I want to work in advertising!

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on May 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »

This is the height of cynicism!

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The next step in advertising: they come alive!

Posted in Advertising, Computers, Cool, Geek, Techno, tagged , , on May 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »

This really funky bit of advertising was for Wordsworth books by Saatchi and Saatchi AtPlay, and has a brochure come alive to visually depict what the words on the page are-it’s so cool it’s practically geek. I’ll let you watch the video to better understand what I mean (you’ll need to click through to see [...]

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So, who wants to mow the lawn?

Posted in Advertising, Human body, tagged , , on April 7, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Here’s an advert about mowing the lawn. “Boring!” you might say. But what if I told you that they’re advertising a lady’s shaver? Any takers now?

Now, I’ve got some questions:

Why is that her favourite activity? Does she have nothing better to do? Do women really look forward to these things?
Does anyone [...]

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Clever advertising

Posted in Advertising, Parenting, tagged , , on February 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »

This is an advert for the Panasonic Intelligent Face Detector software in their cameras, just in case you can’t make out what’s going on.
[Link: Ads Of the World - Panasonic: Intelligent Face Detector]

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Nandos and Audi ads

Posted in Advertising, TV, tagged , , on January 10, 2009 | 12 Comments »

I love these ads:
Tannie Evita and Nandos (of course, she is in contact with Barack! you doubted that?

And Audi uses gymnasts to show the power:

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‘There is no God’ adverts

Posted in Advertising, religion, tagged , , , on January 10, 2009 | 9 Comments »

As from the Times Online “Richard Dawkins launches ‘There is no God’ adverts on buses across Britain“
In a nutshell:
The archsceptic professor Richard Dawkins today launched Britain’s first atheist campaign posting the message: “There’s probably no God. So stop worrying and enjoy your life” on the side of 800 British buses.
“probably“?
Organisers of the four-week campaign said [...]

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Love Condom ads – NSFW!

Posted in Advertising, tagged on October 11, 2008 | 12 Comments »

Very cool ad campaign … love condom ads.
Imagine a similar “Love Life” campaign in SA … starring JZ, and terror Lekota! I am keen to include Manto here … I can see it, can you?

Thanks to Deems and cherryflava for the heads up!

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15 ads that prove sex sells?

Posted in Advertising, Sex, tagged , on March 27, 2008 | 6 Comments »

All advertising is about how “sex sells”. Personally, I think that it’s lost the touch, and isn’t as effective as it used to be when body parts weren’t so readily available.
Here are some recent ads where sex is used to sell all sorts of products. Looking at these ads, would you agree that sex really [...]

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On aging consumers

Posted in Advertising, tagged , on March 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Picking up from the idea that the kiddies who once played videogames are now productive, adult members of society who still play video games, see this Slate article about the rebranding of Chester, the Cheetos mascot. Recent surveys found that over 60% of the people eating Cheetos are adults. This surprised the execs who realized [...]

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