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- Facebook: Promoting Lies for Cash
Facebook still insists it’s totally OK for them to help politicians lie to you for $$$. Not just misleading ads, or controversial opinions, or varying interpretations, but outright lies. Totally fine with it! Facebook says they don’t want to be in the business of fact-checking, but they have policies against false commercial advertising. Truth in […]
- Location-Themed Advertising
A few blocks from the airport. I have no interest in the movie, but I do appreciate when advertisers make an effort to make use of a location instead of just being generic.
- Split Seating
I appreciate double billboards that only make sense when used together. This isn’t quite as good as the Surface Pro pair I saw a while back…
- WiFi is the new Color TV
When I was a kid, motels still advertised “COLOR TV!” on their signs to entice weary drivers to choose their facilities over the next one down the road. I’m pretty sure color TV was standard by then, but the signs remained. These says, every motel I drive past has “Wi-Fi” on the sign, for the […]
- Pixar knows how to advertise with coffee.
Normally I don’t like glossy coffee sleeves because they don’t insulate very well, but I like the thought put into this one for Inside Out.
- Important* Information† About Your‡ Account!**
The envelope strongly implies, but doesn’t actually state that it’s account information from Verizon, but it turns out to be an ad for Time Warner Cable.
- Divide and Conquer
A pair of separate billboards used for Microsoft’s Surface tablet ad campaign. Creative use of existing space.
- Gooey Steak?
Double truncation failure. Steak is good when…A. With shrimp. B. On the 2 for $20 men. C. When isn’t steak goo?
- Amazon Affiliate No More
Amazon & California’s battle over taxes has kicked me out of the affiliate program. I never made much, but it was nice to have a little extra to counteract hosting costs.
- First Line, Last Line, Whatever
There’s an ad for flu shots promoting them as the “first line of defense” against the flu. Someone doesn’t quite get the metaphor.
- National Park Service vs. Robots From Space
If you went out to the movies in the US during 2009, there’s a good chance you saw a turn-off-your-phone PSA in which a movie about “robots from space” tries to negotiate blowing up Mount Rushmore. In a case of life imitating art, the National Park Service is currently battling Transformers 3 — a movie […]
- LOST Commercials Explained
Theory on LOST’s weird commercials: They figure anyone still watching doesn’t need to be convinced, so they might as well have fun.
- There’s a Slogan for That
“There’s a ___ for that” is the new “Got ___?”
- All it Needs is an iPod
Seriously: this Starbucks VIA stand-up looks like it could use an iPod.
- Comp Bits
Huh. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a power-only USB cable before. Would be nice if it was LABELED as such. Ugh. “Refurb Madness.” Bad pun. Stay in the corner.
- Stalker Watch, Immortality, Fast Food Crossover
Spam subject: “Your watch will find you no matter where you are.” What if I don’t want Stalker Watch to follow me around? @BadAstronomer writes a short-short story: Beware of what you wish for… Immortality is boring. Waiting for food at Rubio’s. Employees are trying to get the lyrics straight for the latest Jack-In-the-Box commercial.
- Pop-Ups & Cake! 11111!
Glanced up at server monitors. It was 11:11:11 on the 11th, tiled 3 times. OMG!11111111 Cake Wrecks: The Problem With Phone Orders. Now back to work… How appropriate: BNL’s “Shopping” in background of a Kohl’s commercial! Also: the pop-up summary bits on the LOST rerun are seriously annoying. Fortunately I’m managing to tune them out.
- Buggy Recipe
Found this ad for Coraline in this morning’s newspaper: It’s kind of hard to read, between the pixel size and the printing, but the funniest bit is the blue sidebar on “Finding the Tastiest Beetles:” Beetles are delicious creatures that live close to home. If you use beetles from your backyard or basement, check them […]
- Being a Nexus – Comic-Con Bursting at the Seams
Comic-Con is spilling out into the city of San Diego with a massive media blitz, but what about us is so appealing to the Hollywood marketing crowd?
- Sushi is your friend!
The restaurant, Ra Sushi, has quite good food. But don’t plan on holding any conversations over dinner, since they play loud, driving music with the bass turned up to 11.
- Flash Sighting? Opera: The Fastest Browser Alive!
Opera Software has just released a new beta version of the desktop web browser, Opera 9.50 beta 2. The splash page makes me think of something a bit different, though: Opera 9.5 beta Speed, security, and performance matter. Now, we’ve made the fastest browser in the world even faster. Opera’s new beta is quicker to […]
- Jumping the Gun
Today’s “Super Tuesday,” on which a whole bunch of states hold their primary elections. We still have have Democrats running against other Democrats and Republicans running against other Republicans, hoping to get their parties’ nominations for this fall’s Presidential election. So it was weird last night to see an ad for Republican Mitt Romney contrasting […]
- Priorities: Caffeine!
The new shopping center, The District (built on a corner of the former MCAS Tustin base), has an ad campaign with the slogan, “A million reasons why.” Each poster shows someone posing with a random number and something that can be found, done, or resolved by going there. Here’s a guy who has his priorities […]
- Maybe not as good a predictor as they think
Last week NPR ran a story on “Applebee’s America”, a book on the way politicians brand and sell themselves to the voting public. One thing they brought up was “microtargeting” or “lifetargeting.” The idea is that you can take a person’s lifestyle and determine which way they’re more likely to vote, then send targeted advertising […]
- Alternative to Music?
Since Star 98.7 has suddenly decided to play actual music in the mornings last week, I’ve listened to it a couple of times on the way to work. They do still seem to like playing the same 10 songs over and over again, so there’s only so much I can take before switching over to […]
- Advertising? That’s in aisle 10a.
Photoblog Catch-up Week enters its second week! This Sav-on had an odd collection of items in one aisle: I’m still trying to work out how an aisle can contain “Got milk?” 😕
- Nigerian Scams for Auction?
eBay must have some sort of blanket advertising deal with Google, because the “sponsored links” you get for some searches really don’t make any sense. Case in point: I did a Google search for the phrase, “nigerian scam,” and saw the following ad: Wow, when they say, “Whatever it is, you can get it here.”—they […]
- More Targeted Advertising
While catching up with IMDB info on the various actors in Revenge of the Sith, I noticed an appropriate set of ads on Ewan McGregor’s profile: For those who haven’t heard of it, Ewan is the male lead in The Island. (At the moment, Natalie Portman gets a Windows XP ad, and Hayden Christensen gets… […]
- Elephants in the Web 1: Opera
There’s a saying about the elephant in the room that no one will talk about. Everyone knows it’s there, but by some unspoken rule no one will mention it. I’ve noticed that when web browsers are compared, there’s one thing Opera supporters tend to ignore or downplay: Opera’s business model. Internet Explorer and Safari are […]