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Women Like Skinny Models?
By 9.25.06
Here’s a suspect little piece of reporting from The Sun claiming that women prefer skinny models:
Automotive Jihad?
By 9.25.06
Reader Robin sends in this tip about a car dealership in Ohio that is coming under fire for a radio ad in which it declares “jihad on the automotive market.” From the AP:
Bloodsport Does Mentos
By 9.15.06
Although sad that this Jean Claude Van Damme Mentos commercial doesn’t end with him punching a tube of Mentos Ricky-Oh style through the spurting torso of his enemies, it’s amazing how Mentos-like Van Damme’s girly little chase scene from Bloodsport actually is.
Truth in Advertising
By 9.12.06
of business mannerisms intact, but with refreshingly blunt dialogue coming from all the characters mouths. “You must keep the Teddy Bear logo.”
Asterisks n’ Things
By 9.6.06
Here’s a more complete copy of the questionable Linens n’ Things ad we wondered about yesterday. Click to expand.
NBC Hates HeadOn
By 8.1.06
“It may be the most annoying commercial on television. It’s repetitive, it’s simplistic, it’s production values are beyond cheap, it’s insultingly basic and worse yet, it is still higher brow than NBC’s target demographic.”
Ads Call Graffiti ‘Pollution’; Grafiiti Says, ‘Likewise’
By 7.19.06
BBDO launched a pro-bono advertising campaign for the city of San Francisco desgined to curb graffiti.
Vonage Supports Spyware
By 7.19.06
Ben Edelman has put up an excellent portrait of how Vonage, embattled internet phone company, supports spyware. Quite thorough, Ben traces the money trail from Vonage, through its advertising partners and to the guys downloading adserving programs on your computer without your consent. Screenshots and logs bolster his thesis.
PayPerPost.com Pays You To Blog Shill Without Disclosure
By 7.7.06
As a professional blogger, I spend my mornings in my kitchen, visible smell waves oscillating off of me, typing out my morning posts at a make-shift desk made up entirely of old beer cans. A misanthropic shut-in, I have no real idea of how the outside world works, which I find to be the prerequisite to confidently usher forth my opinions to the same. Facts can only muddle up the purity of my platitudes. it’s really a lot like being an extremely well-paid ignoramus.
Chrysler’s Final 0% Solution
By 6.30.06
There are absolutely no new ideas in advertising. In this latest proof, Chrysler rips off Volkswagen ripping off Mitsubishi by playing up the combustible engine’s ethnic heritage, in this case, as in VW’s, German. The campaign introduces Dr. Z as CEO and spokesmensch. To cries of “I can’t see any lederhosen,” Daimler replies, “Farfegcocca.”
