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Trust in Advertisers? When hell freezes over maybe.

There's a story floating around the web today about how Google is backing a United Kingdom effort by its association of advertisers to rebuild the public's trust in advertisers. The initiative with a working title of Front Foot ... continue

OMG Stop the Web! Twitter is gonna run ads – and Scoble says you’ll love it

Hang on a sec and let me check out the window and see if the world is still spinning.... Yup at least that is still normal but in the world of social media everybody's darling let it out ... continue

Please Apple, don’t destroy my illusions about you

We all understand Apple to a large degree, even those of us who don't bow at the alter of Jobs. We understand the egalitarianism of the Apple ethos. We get that normally intelligent people can become raving fanboys at ... continue

The Independence Day delivery of the DROID

Market share in the mobile phone market is fought by percentage points and exceptional products. Up until this point there is no denying the fact that Apple's iPhone has been gaining ground percentage point by percentage point. ... continue

Apple ad bombing Windows 7 on Google

If there is one thing you can say for the Apple marketing department it is that they love nothing better than taking subtle swipes at Microsoft. While their television and web ads have been doing this for ... continue

Those ads are just so fly – literally

I've seen some pretty ingenious advertising in my time but the idea of using flies - yes flies - to help deliver your ads is definitely out there in left field. I'm not sure who thought up this ... continue

Honest local tv mobile home ad

This one had me scratching my head for a bit. I couldn't figure out if it was making fun of trailer park inhabitants, really real, or something in between. Turns out it's the latter. From ILoveLocalCommercials.com, an explanation ... continue

FTC to celebs: you are responsible for what you’re hawking

As I delve further into this whole FTC mess and their new guidelines, which you can download and read all 81 pages yourself, one thing is clear – celebrities are screwed. Now whether or ... continue

Sony using Nazis to sell PlayStation 3 [UPDATE]

[Update: Seems this wasn't actually sanctioned by Sony, after all. A sheepish BBDO has admitted that it sent the advert - a "mock campaign" - to festivals without Sony's permission. Read more here.] Sony has never been too shy about ... continue

Can I have one of those giant coffee pots in the sky?

Recently in Vancouver, Canada, McDonald’s was giving away small cups of their coffee over a two-week period. To help publicize the promotion that had someone change a lamppost to resemble a giant coffee-pot in the sky pouring ... continue

Google letting 3rd party ad networks in on the party

I just got this in my email but it seems that Google has decided to allow “certified” ad networks to compete for display ad space on our blogs. This will let these ad networks ... continue

So why does Johnny Walker come in a square bottle?

If there is one iconic brand name for scotch it has to be Johnny Walker. This video is the story behind Johnny Walker and its never changing square bottle or diagonal label. The question ... continue

Advertising can work and here’s a few examples of how

We all like to make fun of advertising calling it things like mind-numbing and stupid but sometimes some ads come along ad show that when done right ads can grab our attention and not be stupid about ... continue

Very cool Toyota, too bad the flowers are only temporary

How can you tell when technology has become totally mainstream? Well when a major marketing campaign centered around something totally different targets the growing number of people who live online regardless of where ... continue

It is definitely one way to get attention

So … you are walking down the street and all of a sudden your attention gets caught by what looks to be fish swimming around is the sign for a restaurant. Guess what – ... continue

The Recession 101 ad Campaign – who’s paying for it?

Jessica Pressler over at the Daily Intel blog has a really cool story about an outdoor ad campaign that is being run across the country but no-one has any idea who’s behind it, or ... continue

Printing to the music

There are all kinds of interesting stuff being these days when it comes to advertising products, especially from recognizable brands like HP. All it takes is a bunch of people with some unique ideas ... continue

Where is the Microsoft marketing team getting their great drugs?

Over the past little while we have been seeing some really different advertising coming out of the Monster at Redmond. Sure a lot of people didn’t like the Seinfeld and Bill ads (I thought ... continue

Billboard campaign uses tears of blood.

Speeding admittedly leads to many fatal accidents. Speeding in bad weather can multiple the number of fatalities exponentially. Sure the police can issue speeding tickets as well as dangerous driving tickets but the truth ... continue

The IE8 puke ad pulled – the warm and fuzzy crowd wins again

Last week I wrote here about the new series of online ads that Microsoft was running for Internet Explorer 8 and truth be told I thought they were all funny as hell, and yes ... continue

Yet another company shows how ads can work

Yesterday I wrote both here and on my home blog about two different types of advertising campaigns that both use video to engage us as a way to promote their products. With both posts ... continue

Warped and funny IE8 ads, I’m still chuckling

I know, I know. Microsoft and funny ads just don’t seem to go together. It’s almost as if the world is coming to an end, but I gotta tell ya folks these are definitely some funny ads ... continue