May 21, 2009
Introducing The Fling, a new "shimmering" "finger" chocolate bar with a pink wrapper. It's Mars's first new candy bar in 20 years, the wrapper says "pleasure yourself," and this is the creepy commercial they're running for it. Gross:
Hopefully women won't respond to this transparently targeted campaign and The Fling will become the Zima of candy bars. (Via AdRants.)
Posted by Lindsay at 12:30 PM in , ,
Tags: Candy | The Fling
latest by MTeMedia
May 20, 2009
This is a "real" Craigslist posting. Which is to say it is really on Craigslist. The content of the post is obviously fake.
Well, that was awful. Oh wait, it goes on (and on, and on):
Continue reading Craigslist + Reality TV + Misogyny = Viral Marketing For Your Shitty Band?...
Posted by Gabe at 5:00 PM in ,
Tags: Craigslist | Fag Hag | Reality TV
latest by copbarcopbar
May 11, 2009
There is no worse advertiser than milk. As if it wasn't bad enough that their product is blamed for all kinds of things like childhood obesity and drug-resistant MRSA infections, they seem never be planning to let up with that disgusting viscous curdled- milk-mustache-on-tween-pop-stars campaign. Now, Big Milk has outdone itself with a series of visually interesting animated ads that bring back stereotypes about women from, like, the 18th century ("The princess's horrible hair was the reason she was unmarried"), and are also so sneaky and misinforming as to just be flat-out lies. Milk hates women:
Continue reading Milk Advertisers Find A Whole New Way To Be Gross...
Posted by Lindsay at 2:30 PM in , ,
Tags: Milk | Sexism
latest by mohnosaurus
April 22, 2009
According to a post over on Boing Boing, there's a dude in Malibu who sells his own lemonade, but when you buy a bottle you also get a piece of his mind. And his mind is filled with super-frustrations over the world's inability to recognize his genius when it comes to writing movies. Remember, this is all printed on a cool, crisp, refreshing bottle of delicious, tart lemonade:
THANK YOU FOR INVESTING IN MY MOVIE!
My name is Matthew and I am one of the best screenwriters in Hollywood. Unfortunately, the television networks and movie studios don't know that yet. As it stands, the decision of which films get produced are left in the hands of emotionally-immature, substance-abusing ex-lawyers who live in dread paranoia that everyone in the universe is out to get them. They spend the bulk of their time spying on their fellow executives, composing nasty counter-intelligence rumors and spreading them through their network of FA-BU-LOUS, yet cunning assistants.
Ice cold zingonade. Matthew sure told the industry bigshots what's what. In any case, this is basically just viral marketing. One man's high-speed globally connected internet connection is another man's ramshackle lemonade stand in Malibu. Except, one of the ways in which viral marketing succeeds is in its ability to be really quick and concise in its message. And Matthew's anti-Hollywood lemonade screed keeps going on, and on, and on:
Continue reading When Life Gives You Lemonade Make Crazy Rants...
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Tags: Hollywood | Lemonade
latest by lorelaikillmore
April 15, 2009
There are three new commercials for KY Intense, which is a gel that they say makes the female of even the most "reserved couples" [foghorn] so [quittin'-time-whistle] [Old Faithful geyser] that her folded socks blow right off her feet. Just another reason to fear watching prime time family hour TV with your parents or someone you're on a first date with.
Continue reading KY Intense Is Scientifically Proven To Make Everyone A Little Uncomfortable...
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Tags: KY
latest by videochickie
March 31, 2009
No, really. Do not adjust the settings on your computer monitor: this is a new commercial for Depend undergarments directed by the best documentary filmmaker in the world, Errol Morris, and featuring his unique style and literal and figurative voice:
Errol Morris has been helping to finance his amazing movies with commercial-directing work for many years, but I like to think of a Depend undergarments commercial as the ultimate "fuck you" to any lingering indie-doc snobs (heh!) who would begrudge their heroes an honest living. As my dearly missed (for one more day) co-editor Gabe Delahaye would say: "I have no problem with this." Well, except for the fact that the difference between men and women that matters as far as Depend undergarments are concerned has less to do with highway merging and more with pee-pee holes being in different places, but Errol Morris is a classy man, so I can see why he went another way. Oh yeah, also? It's fun to watch this and imagine that "merging" means "peeing." (Via AdGabber, though they focused on the commercial's content and didn't seem to notice Errol Morris is a totally famous director. Hmph. Get it together, world.)
Posted by Lindsay at 1:00 PM in ,
Tags: Depend Undergarments | Errol Morris
latest by Nick
A father and daughter sit in awkward silence at what appears to be a McDonald's somewhere in the American midwest definitely Canada. As a rowdy group of hockey player kids rustle in from the snow, the little girl asks her strong but silent parent if he's ever wished she was a boy, "A boy...?" he says, trailing off. Then he looks at his McDonald's premium coffee cup, 'cause he don't need any fancy Starbucks, twisting the lid as he searches for the right answer. "A boy? I just want my fucking job and house back, sweetie. Get over yourself."
Continue reading McDonald's Panders To The Laid-Off Working Class Dad Market...
Posted by Lindsay at 10:15 AM in ,
Tags: McDonald's | The Economy
latest by sarah
March 3, 2009
The most "ahhh!" thing about this Trojan commercial in which a guy gives his girlfriend gonorrhea for her birthday (imaginative!) is the fact that it seems like it was created by a high school AV club. Spend lots of money on your commercials, Trojan!:
"As a general advertising rule, the more intense the scare tactics you use to sell your product, the more expensive the ad needs to look." -- Don Draper. Also, I hope the actress got paid extra to say "I am a gonorrhea girl" on TV. (Via Adrants.)
Posted by Lindsay at 11:45 AM in ,
Tags: STDs
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