Did you know that 90% of women name their vaginas, and "beaver" is one of the most popular? At least it is in Australia, where they've taken to premiering Kotex tampon commercials featuring an animated beaver that helps women make life decisions.
The problem with clever, well-designed anti-racism posters dreamed up by fancy New York City ad executives is that racists don't give a shit about clever ideas, good design, New York City, interesting advertising or rich executives. Sorry.
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Say what you will about Barack Obama's plan to enslave all American Christians and make broodmares out of blonde females, you've got to admit his marketing team is really, really good. Like, Nike in the late 90s and early aughts good.
That One's newest ads make the case for an Obama presidency not by highlighting common Democratic rhetoric, but by focusing on the words of two superstars of the GOP—one from the past and one from the present.
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Whoops! Disney's Touchstone Pictures picked the wrong time to come out with Confessions of a Shopaholic. Now that everyone's broke and scared, ad folks believe it's going to be mighty tough to convince consumers to plop down $10 to watch a movie about a beautiful, young, white lady who likes to buy things, which, unfortunately, was once considered a winning storyline.
If you opened The New York Times or the Post this morning, you may have noticed this ad for the Candie’s Foundation’s “America, Wake Up” PSA campaign, which aims to prevent teenage pregnancy and promote discussion among teenagers and young adults.
What you don't know is that the same full-page ad, featuring pictures of Jamie Lynn Spears and Bristol Palin, was supposed to be in today's USA Today issue, but was pulled editors for fear of controversy.
Bringing homophobia to the mainstream, the Advertising Council and the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network will today launch a campaign against "That's so gay."
It's the first time the council has used its public service announcements to help out the homos.
If you're like us, you like your booze to reflect your loyalty to TV shows and your immature, macho obsession with people who earn respect by murdering other people. In that case, it's time to get drunk, comrades!
Hi there. You see, up there? Those are two new ads for a certain good or service that consumers will soon be staring at. You might be wondering what the ads are for. This is a difficult thing to surmise because, thanks to our cropping, you cannot see the name of the brand or company these ads hope to promote. Also: It's hard to tell because the only thing you really see here is a pair of busty women nearly popping out of their shirts. So, take a guess what the ads are for. Hint: It is not for breast enlargement surgery. Hint 2: It's is not for Levi's, 'cause you know how those guys love to advertise their product by barely showing it.
Google searches seeking to verify the above video's authenticity have yielded nothing but links to other sites asking the same questions we have, so we're quick to assume this is yet another "viral" marketing campaign for some new movie or TV show. If it's not: Jesus, Aykroyd. What happened to you, man?
Update: It's a Ghostbusters III thing.
The Lifetime channel is making it very clear that it's sick and tired of being a punchline B-list comediennes use when talking about what they do when they get dumped or are on their periods.
First the network sneakily snatched away Bravo's trendy reality program Project Runway. Now it's delving even deeper into the hip fashion game with a new original reality series, Blush: The Search for the Next Great Makeup Artist. Because culture just doesn't celebrate the useless but moneymaking fashion industry enough!
Yet despite its similarities to shows like Runway and Shear Genius, Blush also promises to be quite different—it's going to be much, much worse. That's because it's basically a goddamn unabashed infomercial.
Whatever happened to good old, stupid old celebrity endorsements that at least were only disgusting on a philosophical level?
Now we've got Levi's "Unbutton Your Beast" campaign. Disguised as "viral" marketing, "Beast" is actually just one big disgusting cock joke intended to briefly hold the attention of a sex-starved, increasingly brain dead public. ("Look, it's a meatball sub coming out of the zipper of a pair of pants! Funny, because that's where penises come out of too!") Other beasts unbuttoned on the site include a bespectacled hog, an alien wearing lipstick and a lobster claw.
Never before have I wished a company would increase its ad budget.
Oh gawd! It's like all the news anymore is a hurricane made of lies and garbage and bullshit, and it's ceaseless!
Are you mad we yell about the GOP on here? Listen, we'll stop taking the GOP to task when it stops pulling stunts like this:
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On Monday, pallid shredder Jack White released a statement complaining that the theme song he composed with Alicia Keys for upcoming Bond film Quantum of Solace, "Another Way to Die," had no business in the hands of Coca Cola.
Coke is currently using "Another Way" in its Coke Zero Zero 7 commercials, and White, obviously completely ignorant to the way modern mega-corporations pimp each other's creativity, feels slighted by this. He went so far as to say he was "disappointed."
Of course, we were desperate to hear the song White holds so dear. Take a listen after the jump.
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MICROSOFT DROPS SEINFELD "Remember those awful Microsoft ads with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates? Well, now you can forget them. Microsoft flacks are desperately dialing reporters to spin them about 'phase two' of the ad campaign — a phase, due to be announced tomorrow, which will drop the aging comic altogether. Microsoft's version of the story: Redmond had always planned to drop Seinfeld. The awkward reality: The ads only reminded us how out of touch with consumers Microsoft is — and that Bill Gates's company has millions of dollars to waste on hiring a has-been funnyman to keep him company."
A lot of hogwallop is being made over Obama's latest ad that ties John McCain and his anti-immigration policy with the thoughts of Lou Dobbs' predecessor, Rush Limbaugh. In Spanish.
But who is this bilingual ad actually dissing? The full video and translation, after the jump:
COVERGIRL'S UNLIKELY NEW FACE "Ellen DeGeneres confirmed on her syndicated TV talk show today that she will be the new face of CoverGirl cosmetics, appearing in an ad campaign for the Procter & Gamble Co. brand to break in the January issue of Us Weekly magazine."
That ad there, at left? For The CW's Gossip Girl, the low-ratings show that everybody can't stop talking about? The show's creator, Josh Schwartz, actually hates the way the network has gone about pushing the show on viewers, taking advantage of the Parents Television Council's general frustration with its means of teaching young people about the birds and the bees.
THE SCRAMBLE FOR CHINA'S HEARTS AND MINDS "When the Beijing Olympic Games kicked off two weeks ago with a four-hour spectacular, more than 840 million people in China tuned in, perhaps the largest television audience in history for a single event. The broadcast was the first in a series of Olympic bonanzas for China Central Television, or CCTV, one of the chief propaganda arms of the Chinese state and perhaps also a new global media titan. … The company is … a model of how the Communist Party in China manages to keep state-owned companies profitable as it moves the nation toward a market economy with less government influence. That the biggest corporations in the world are bankrolling that evolution — as well as party propaganda — is one of the ironies of modern China. … Its advertisers include Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola and Adidas. It has cut television and marketing deals with the National Basketball Association and IMG Worldwide, the global sports and entertainment giant."
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