wedding registry
Jacob got engaged last weekend. Yay! Mysteriously, before the
wedding plans could even begin, his fiancée received an e-mail from Pottery Barn inviting her to start a
wedding registry. Except she never signed up with them, or told any other retailer that she was engaged. What she did do was...change her Facebook status.
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badvertising
Subway spokesman and occasional thin guy Jared Fogle may soon be out of work thanks to a new FTC rule banning commercial testimonials that warn "
results not typical" or "individual
results may vary." Under the new rule, marketers using, say, body builders to advertise weight loss pills are also going to have to show an average lardass whose results might be more typical. You can guess how advertisers are reacting to the change...
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food
Reader and Flickr Pool Member Tengaport writes in with an age old question. Should the sandwich look like the picture?:
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september 11th
An
American Airlines passenger jet flies through an impossibly blue September sky, hurtling fatefully towards two beautiful Twin Towers. Hey, it's September 11th all over again in this exciting advertisement from American Airlines, advertising their new TiVo sweepstakes!
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clips
We saw this on TV and wanted to snag it. Then we stopped watching TV. Luckily, someone else had the frame of mind to video tape this bizarre
commercial for a headache relief stick that you, well, apply directly to forehead.
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Turns out there's actually TWO versions of the awesome new Coca-Cola ad featuring a track by White Stripes' Jack White. This one is cool because all the extras move at the end. The
commercial is directed by Nagi Noda, based on the technique she pioneered in the Japanese music video
Sentimental Journey.
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cp&b
Some applaud how different this ad is from your typical Coke
commercial. Stylistically, this is true but really it just puts a pretty new dress on a classic ad trope. Therein, the product is passed from random person to random person, spreading joy and smiles along the way.
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For your Monday Morning Bemusement, Superman takes on Nick O'Teen, insidious Irish personification of underage smoking.
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lynx
This viral ad for Lynx Anti-perspirant (slogan: "Making your armpits smell like a wild animal") starts off with a coy British girl setting up her webcam to give her number to a boy she met at a party the previous night. She then performs an exotic strip tease for the camera, flashing parts of her body with her phone number written on it. Then her girlfriend stumbles through the door and they have a pillow and tickle fight. Then a roommate stumbles out of the shower and some cheerleaders walk in. And it just gets better from there.
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kelloggs
And you guys thought the Rolling Stones selling out was a recent thing...
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Last time we posted a picture of an advertisement encouraging people to kill themselves, a reader commented: "If they said things like "kids like psp" no one would give two fucks and the consumerist wouldnt be posting everyday, giving the psp more exposure that it would ever have on a site like this. quit reading into this shit, and shut up"
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Watch this freakish Mc Donald's commercial. Adults are frozen and a hatch opens in their belly. A child version of themselves goes out and gets McDonalds, brings it back to their hands, crawls back inside the hatch. After the door closes, the adult unfreezes, surprised that McDonald's is in their hands and begin feverishly eating. "Feed your
inner child" appears, followed by "I'm lovin' it."
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Okay, within mere moments of our
Dangerous Highway Perspective Advertisements post, astute reader "The Unicorn" followed-up with
this Snopes article, which explains that these highway perspective advertisements are mock-ups done for a 2005 German contest. So we'd usually just append this quasi-correction to our first post... except the linked Snopes article has the best and most dangerous highway perspective advertisement
ever:
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This looks a bit photoshopped, but assuming it isn't, it's pretty dang cool. Of course, we're not entirely sure about whether a three-dimensional perspective painting is really good advertising, especially on the highway, where one has enough to worry about without trying to dodge imaginary fifty foot long horizontal
beer bottles rolling out of the back of eighteen-wheeler trucks.
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