March 1, 2012 at 11:19am
Guardian open journalism: Three Little Pigs advert
“wake up and smell the bacon!”
February 29, 2012 at 7:27am
Nick Bergus » How I became Amazon’s pitchman for a 55-gallon drum of personal lubricant on Facebook →
I’m partially amused that Amazon is paying for this, but I’m also sorta annoyed. Of course Facebook is happily selling me out to advertisers. That’s its business. That’s what you sign up for when make an account.
January 16, 2012 at 1:31pm
A Happy, Flourishing City With No Advertising - Cities - GOOD →
“In 2006, Gilberto Kassab, mayor of São Paulo, Brazil, passed the “Clean City Law.” …Saying that visual pollution was as burdensome as air and noise pollution, Kassab banned every billboard, poster, and bus ad in São Paulo with the Clean City Law. Even business signage had to go. Within months, city authorities had removed tens of thousands of ads both big and small—much to the dismay of business owners, who said the ban would surely ruin them.
Five years later, have all the businesses in São Paulo gone under? Hardly. In fact, most citizens and some advertising entities report being quite pleased with the now billboard-less city. A survey this year found that a 70 percent of residents say the Clean City Law has been “beneficial.”
December 16, 2011 at 5:51pm
A clever dirty ad for Michael Fassbender’s “Shame” in NY Magazine.
November 22, 2011 at 11:40am
Foolish or funny? Best Buy urges shoppers to “join the fight” and “camp out at Best Buy”. Oh how I hope some enterprising young Occupiers take them up on their offer.
damn! if only this was real!
November 21, 2011 at 6:56pm
Hooray! Facebook Ads Are Heading to Your News Ticker →
If there’s one thing that sucks about Facebook, it’s the paucity of advertisements. We need more! And we need them in real time. Luckily, TechCrunch reports, we’re in luck—more live Facebook ads are headed our way today.
September 3, 2011 at 1:45pm
This looks insanely dangerous. (and fun).
August 28, 2011 at 8:59am
“the funny thing about secrets is sometimes it’s better when you share them”
August 19, 2011 at 8:53am
“The Handlebar Moustache”.
August 15, 2011 at 5:19pm
“The Evolution of Apple Ads” - a stunningly comprehensive overview of Apple’s most notable advertisements from the 70s to today.
August 10, 2011 at 10:18am
Let’s go zombie bowling!
August 7, 2011 at 8:47pm
Smart’s Miniature Billboards
I want one of these cute little billboards! Toronto friends, please find one for me!
from The Pop-Up City:
“Smart presents itself as a proper and eco-friendly car especially made for the urban atmosphere, and it will continue to do so as it’s about to launch an affordable electric car, the Smart Fortwo. Therefore it’s logical to use the urban environment as a canvas for a good advertising campaign in public space. The Toronto office of advertising agency BBDO came up with this rather brilliant and funny intervention on behalf of Smart. The ad men strategically placed numerous tiny billboards along sidewalks, on walls and public objects in Toronto.”
July 4, 2011 at 1:00pm
It’s never too early to start thinking about ‘back to school’ time right?
Freitag makes tough backpacks out of used truck tarps, and apparently the product evaluation is brutal - “because there’s no tougher hood than schoolyards, it was tested to the fringe of sadism.”
