You know that McDonald’s ad where the fast food chain implies that the best way for a child to get over the loss of a loved one is to scrarf down a square fish patty on a bun? It’s been pulled, for reasons that should be immediately clear if you read that first sentence. [More]
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Italian Pizza Association Threatens To Sue McDonalds Over Happy Meal Commercial
By 4.13.15
There appears to be a bit of a war brewing between Italian pizza makers and McDonald’s after the fast food company aired a commercial depicting a child overjoyed to receive a Happy Meal over pizza at a local pizzeria. [More]
Is Pottery Barn Stalking Me Through Facebook?
By 6.8.09
Jacob got engaged last weekend. Yay! Mysteriously, before the wedding plans could even begin, his fiancÈe 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.
FTC To Require Advertisers Using Testimonials To Show Typical Results
By 3.22.09
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…
Make Magazine: Make Yourself Invisible
By 10.29.08
The first magazine devoted entirely to DIY technology projects, MAKE Magazine unites, inspires and informs a growing community of resourceful people who undertake amazing projects in their backyards, basements, and garages. Subscribe today and receive a free Maker’s Notebook. After the jump, check out a sample article from MAKE Magazine: “Make Yourself Invisible”.
Make Magazine: Go-Karts Race to College
By 10.28.08
The first magazine devoted entirely to DIY technology projects, MAKE Magazine unites, inspires and informs a growing community of resourceful people who undertake amazing projects in their backyards, basements, and garages. Subscribe today and receive a free Maker’s Notebook. After the jump, check out a sample article from MAKE Magazine: “Go-Karts Race to College”.
Make Magazine: Economic Disequilibrium
By 10.27.08
The first magazine devoted entirely to DIY technology projects, MAKE Magazine unites, inspires and informs a growing community of resourceful people who undertake amazing projects in their backyards, basements, and garages. Subscribe today and receive a free Maker’s Notebook. After the jump, check out a sample article from MAKE Magazine “ECONOMIC DISEQUILIBRIUM: Can You Have Your House and Spend It Too?”.
Wendy's 4 Alarm Spicy Chicken Sandwich Advertisement Vs Reality
By 3.13.07
Reader and Flickr Pool Member Tengaport writes in with an age old question. Should the sandwich look like the picture?:
Head On!
By 6.22.06
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.
Jack White’s Coke Ad, #2
By 4.24.06
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.
Jack White’s Coke Ad
By 4.20.06
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.
Superman Hates, Kills Smokers
By 4.17.06
For your Monday Morning Bemusement, Superman takes on Nick O’Teen, insidious Irish personification of underage smoking.
Gurls, Gurls, Gurls! Viral Ad Done Right
By 4.4.06
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.
Snap, Crackle And ROCK!
By 4.3.06
And you guys thought the Rolling Stones selling out was a recent thing…
McDonald’s Ad Leverages Inner Child
By 2.23.06
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.”
Dangerous Highway Perspective Advertisements II: Die Harder
By 2.20.06
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:
