Alec Baldwin has been nominated for an Oscar, won Emmys and Golden Globes, stars in a hit sitcom and can basically do whatever he wants with his free time. And it looks like the Glengarry Glen Ross star has decided to spend that time filming in upstate New York… for Wegmans grocery stores. [More]
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Chicago To Sell Naming Rights To Bus Routes, Train Lines, Everything It Can
By 11.11.10
Next spring, the commuters of Chicago may no longer be taking the Red Line to Addison if they want to catch a Cubs game. If the Chicago Transit Authority has its way, they could be riding on McDonald’s Express and getting off at Costco Station. [More]
Guy Gets Paid To Wear Peoples' Shirts
By 11.4.10
Since so many of us provide free advertising to companies by walking around with their logos on our shirts, it was only a matter of time before an entrepreneur decided to build a business out of the phenomenon. [More]
LG Shooting New Phone Ad With Fancy Carousel
By 11.3.10
I stumbled across a shoot yesterday in Brookyln for a new LG phone commercial featuring a big ol’ carousel they stuffed into a warehouse in the Gowanus Canal area. [More]
Super Bowl Ad Slots Already Sold Out
By 11.1.10
If you were hoping to spend millions advertising your business during the Super Bowl (which will certainly be a face-off of the ages between the Dallas Cowboys and the Buffalo Bills), you are out of luck. According to Fox, they’ve already sold out all the available ad slots for the Feb. 6, 2011 event. [More]
TV Commercials Getting Shorter, But Are They Getting Any Less Crappy?
By 10.27.10
In case you hadn’t noticed as you fast-forwarded through the ad breaks while watching Biggest Loser, a growing number of those ads you’re not watching are now half the length of the ads you used to have to sit through in the days before DVRs. [More]
Axe Billboard Tries To Dismount Old Spice's "I'm On A Horse"
By 10.20.10
Gag-inducing man-spray Axe is fighting back at Old Spice’s recent buzzed about, equestrian-themed campaign with this billboard that says “Axe is for men who’d rather be with a woman than on a horse.” [More]
Why Are TV Ads For Lawyers So Unbelievably Sh&%!y?
By 10.13.10
There’s a reason that the commercials nominated for Consumerist’s first ever Worst Ad In America competition had to be nationally broadcast ads — Because if we’d included local TV spots, all the nominees would probably have been for personal injury law firms. [More]
CEO Says Delta Doesn't Like His Company's "How To Avoid Bag Fees" Ad
By 10.6.10
Scott Jordan, CEO of Scottevest, a company that makes, among other things a giant pocket for your iPad, is telling the world that Delta rejected his company’s full page ad for a jacket that has so many pockets you’ll be able to “avoid extra baggage fees.” [More]
Watch A Man Eat As Much Sugar As Is In A 20 Oz. Soft Drink
By 10.6.10
Well, this is gross. It’s the sequel to the notorious “Man drinking fat” commercial from the New York City Department of Health. [More]
School Sells Ad Space On Letters Sent Home To Parents
By 10.1.10
A MA elementary school is selling ad space on the backs of permission slips and notices sent home to parents. It’s better than another bake sale, say officials, who have pledged to keep the advertising appropriate for families. No ads for alcohol, tobacco, political causes or tattoo parlors will be allowed. Is this any different than ads in the back of yearbooks? Or one more tumble down the slippery slope of commercial encroachment in our public schools? Take our poll and sound off in the comments. [More]
Senate Passes Bill Banning Loud Commercials
By 10.1.10
Everyone hates loud commercials, which is why Senate Republicans and Democracts were able to agree on something and Wednesday unanimously passed a bill banning them. The bill would require commercials to be broadcast at the same sound level as the programs they’re interrupting. [More]
Nielsen Partners With Facebook, Other Websites To Measure Ad Views Online
By 9.28.10
If you don’t like the concept of having your online actions tracked for marketing purposes, you can add Nielsen to you list of sworn enemies. The audience measurement company is better known for its TV viewer ratings, but yesterday it announced a new partnership with websites like Facebook where it will access user info (age and gender only, it says) to collect aggregate data on ad views around the web. [More]
JCPenney Switching To Priceless Catalogs
By 9.28.10
When JCPenney killed off its traditional Big Book catalog last year, the result was a drop in sales on its website, says the retailer’s chairman. Based on that successful strategy–wait, what?–JCPenney says it’s killing off its remaining 12 specialty catalogs as well. Instead, it will start mailing out thinner “look books,” which will contain a subset of merchandise and no prices. [More]
How About A Tasty Crude Oil Salad From Shell?
By 9.27.10
Before we had slick and savvy advertising campaigns like the Singimals and the Sticky-Bottomed-Bears, Madison Avenue pumped out some truly demented shlock like Shell’s “oil salad” one-pager from the December 22, 1947 issue of Life. Yummy! Serve me up a salad of asphalt! [More]
What Are The Best (Or Least Annoying) Ads On TV Right Now?
By 9.27.10
While voting is still open for Consumerist’s first ever Worst Ad In America Awards, we decided to take a respite from all the negativity for a bit. [More]
Vote Here For Worst Ad In America 2010!
By 9.25.10
Now that the nominees have been announced for Consumerist’s First Annual Worst Ad In America Awards, it’s time to get your vote on! [More]
Daily Candy Won't Sell Your E-mail To Advertisers, But They'll Charge Advertisers To Send You An E-mail
By 9.24.10
Consumerist reader Mel recently signed up to receive updates from DailyCandy.com with the hope of getting the scoop on sample sales and shopping in the San Francisco area. What Mel didn’t expect was a paid political ad for a gubernatorial candidate. [More]
