Archive for the ‘ads 'n' crap’ Category

Subliminal advertising

It’s 7 minutes long, but it’s awesome. It’s really the last 30 seconds or so that are most interesting…
And I’ll say no more. Just watch. Very cool.
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Nige Sells Out

Ah, advertising. Is there anything it can’t make unfunny through the magic of shameless coattailing?
I just hope Chris Guest got a swimming pool out of the deal.
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BRAVIA Strikes Again

Wow. Just wow.

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Brilliant

In advertising, it’s all about reaching the right audience at the right time.

Via Adrants

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Progress

Nokia announced that in the wake of the success of some of its product rivals like the Motorola Razr and the LG Chocolate, it will start giving its new phone models actual names, as opposed to model numbers. It’s mind-boggling to me that it’s taken people this long to figure out what seems to me [...]

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PHALLIC LOGO AWARDS

Via Popbitch, here’s a fine collection of phallic corporate logos. The power of companies to miss the bleedingly obvious never ceases to amaze me. Of all the people that must have looked at these things, signed off on them, and probably paid loads for them, not one person can see that their new identity is [...]

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Swedish for “that dog has a giant human penis”

I’ve seen it with my own eyes: the first picture in the 2007 IKEA catalogue features a dog which seems to have a larger-than-normal and distinctly human shvantz. A spokesman for IKEA Canada claims that the photo has not been tampered with and that — as if this really helps the case — it was [...]

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Messin’ With Sasquatch

YouTube and Google Video have become platforms for jerks to do mean things to each other.
Jack Link’s Beef Jerky has created a campaign that spins the whole prank video in a pretty funny way. It’s called “Messin’ with Sasquatch”, and while it’s certainly not what you could call highbrow humour, a couple of the spots [...]

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