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- Healthy Savings on…Liquid Death????
I mean, the idea of marketing canned water as “Liquid Death! (murder your thirst)” is weird enough (IIRC they wanted to make water “cool” like energy drinks), but the “healthy savings” label just kind of makes it!
- But does it have electrolytes?
Found on a case of bottled water whose marketers really hope you don’t understand how pH works.* I bet when you heat it up, it goes beyond hot, and actually speeds up its molecular motion! *You make water alkaline by adding OH– ions.
- Oddly Specific Advertising
A Casper billboard on PCH advertises the ‘perfect mattress for furries.’ I assume it’s part of a series. Either that or they’re into really niche marketing.
- SDCC, Universal, and Not-Produced-Here Syndrome
It’s funny how some companies will go out of their way to avoid acknowledging the competition. Does anyone really think that the Comic-Con audience will best remember Sigourney Weaver for a supporting role in Baby Mama?
- Black Friday Question
When did “Black Friday” change from a behind-the-scenes retail term to a plastered-everywhere marketing term?
- Marketing-Free!
This XKCD comic reminds me of the “uranium-free pizza” joke from some scouting event way back when.
- Wild Things of Irvine
The Village, a disturbingly-named apartment complex across from the Irvine Spectrum shopping center, has been advertising in the nearby area for a couple of years using the slogan, “A new meaning for…” with various images and phrases. For a while, the following photo and caption seemed to be everywhere: A New Meaning For Heated Pool […]