MetaFilter posts tagged with BrokenLink and advertising

Auzzie Beer Ad

Mr Bluesky — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:35:25 -0800

Nice Beer Ad from Down Under a 1000 Auzzies in gowns crossing over the sheep strewn plains of Australia. Ahh..foreign ads..perhaps this indeed the next form of cultural worms? I can see those soulless bastards on Madison Ave.."Yes..lets push hard on the foreign angle and prey/pray some poor sod on MeFi picks it up..we'll be rich I tell ya RICH!!!" Forgive me MeFiers.

Alternate Reality Advertising?

gnutron — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:14:12 -0800

Alternate Reality Advertising? I noticed this peculiar advert on this morning's commute. Seems it's part of an immersive ad campaign. Since when do gamers have enough money to buy luxury rides?

The Chopper Show

Fantt — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 07:41:34 -0800

The Chopper Show commercials are awesome! They're 30 minute (or longer) commercials for a dealership in Las Vegas. They're obnoxious, over the top, and mesmerizingly amusing. It boggles my mind that there are people who purchase cars based on these commercials, but I can understand why The Chopper is so popular in Las Vegas. If you can't speak spanish, I recommend El Chopper en Espanol - it's even funnier if you can't understand the sales pitch.

Got hay?

NickDouglas — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:50:45 -0800

Got hay? The USDA helps you sell hay in Tennessee and buy hay in Minnesota.

Interactive Pre-Recorded Voices

mattr — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 05:26:59 -0800

A Marketing and Promotional Urinal Screen - I mean - WTF? Is there nowhere I can go and not be bombarded by advertising...now when I go for a 'slash' I can be detected 'visiting' the urinal, and a pre-recorded voice can 'interact' with me while I read the graphics. Honestly, I never, ever, ever wanted to interact whilst standing at a urinal...please don't make me start interacting in there!

Glen! Glen Glen Glen!

kirkaracha — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 11:48:55 -0800

Glen! Glen Glen Glen! [QuickTime]

GE

SandeepKrishnamurthy — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 07:42:21 -0800

Got GE? GE's new ads are great- esp. the piano with water drops. Any other Web ads impress you lately? I presume everybody remembers this thread.

Blurring the reality line

obloquy — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:18:09 -0800

Blurring the Line What do this fertility clinic and this publishing company have in common? Ask Lions Gate Films and BMW.

I feel GREAT! Babies!!!

jonson — Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:06:31 -0800

This commercial for Nutrigrain is disturbing & hilarious. Link eggregiously lifted from blort.

The only problem was that there was two women for every man.

anastasiav — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:18:23 -0800

50's Women and Their World
:: via blort and Madamjjj ::

You will NOT criticize the Great Leader!

dejah420 — Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:19:22 -0800

Viacom's CBS today rejected a request from liberal group MoveOn to air a 30-second anti-President Bush ad, saying the spot violated the network's policy against running issue advocacy advertising. This, despite running anti-drug and anti-smoking ads. So, is it only issues about which they disagree?

How To Attract The 18-34 Crowd: Say

MiguelCardoso — Sat, 22 Nov 2003 14:17:53 -0800

Oh fuck! Are you interested? Let me guess: you're 18 to 34 years old, right? Oh it's a dandy little word, for sure. But is it enough? Here's yet another brilliant marketing idea dreamt up by the 35-50 ~~thoroughly fucked-up Texan~~ reader-research crowd! [Via Arts and Letters Daily.]

Take 2 Thorazine & call me in the morning.

eyebeam — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:08:46 -0800

The American Gallery of Psychiatric Art. 'Sanity For Sale: 1960-2000'. Magazine advertisements for psychiatric medications in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Hondafilter!

jonson — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:25:15 -0800

The latest Honda television commercial, "Sense" being shown in the UK, is the follow up to the widely discussed "Cog." It's quite not as cool as its predecessor, but still, an elegant, interesting concept. Apologies for the somewhat low quality of the java video stream.

Pizza Schmizza paid me to put this link on Metafilter

angry modem — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 17:05:15 -0800

Odd Advertising ...Pizza Schmizza paid me to put this link on Metafilter.

Alcohol Nyet!

mathowie — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:28:03 -0800

The Museum of Anti-Alcohol Posters from Russia's 80's anti-alcohol campaign

First 50 years of Fiat advertising

riffola — Sun, 08 Jun 2003 16:07:43 -0800

The first 50 years of Fiat advertising images. Fiat has been a pioneer in the development and management of its corporate image through advertising. Famous artists as Dudovich, Codognato, Casorati and De Chirico have created beautiful posters and designs for this Italian giant of which 100 from the 1899 to 1950 period have been selected for their online historial archive. The oldest being this fantastic “Fabbrica Italiana Di Automobili” poster from 1899.

K. Street.

the fire you left me — Mon, 07 Apr 2003 16:32:51 -0800

Down on Khaki Street. Roman Coppola's ode to summer youth. Available cool with The La's, or even cooler with The Shins!

Banned commercial

essexjan — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:29:19 -0800

TV Censorship? This advert has just been banned from British TV after a record number of complaints were made about it.

What do you think of it?

Pink Bunny: Hip or myth?

joeclark — Tue, 04 Mar 2003 18:43:40 -0800

Pink Bunny’s LiveJournal Pink Bunny is a character in a film beginning principal photography this month, Crypto-Candida. If she isn’t real, how can her LiveJournal be?

superbowl marijuana

skallas — Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:34:23 -0800

Amusing Op-Ed piece on this year's Anti-Drug Superbowl ad "But this has got to be good news for some. Infertility clinics are in for a big surprise with this one. Forget all those expensive, painful procedures. Simply grab some weed, and boom-boom!" [NORML article]

Ice-T to promote Ice-C

Lusy P Hur — Fri, 27 Dec 2002 12:57:00 -0800

Ice-T to promote ice cream I wonder if they'll have an Ice Tea flavor.

Switch Parody

Sal Amander — Tue, 26 Nov 2002 09:44:29 -0800

Apple's own 'Switch' parody ads with Will Ferrell.

M$N M€$$€ng€r version $.0

Pretty_Generic — Tue, 26 Nov 2002 05:29:28 -0800

Hooray! Great news for those who love to communicate - Microsoft have released a new version of their popular Windows/MSN/.NET Messenger software! So, let's glance at the new features: there's a great new look with a spinny logo thingy, and... and, erm... well... it's had some features removed... like the ability to use third-party add-ons... and, oh but wait, there's new pop-up advertising and alleged spy-ware! Oh...

notclosed — Sun, 03 Nov 2002 14:16:01 -0800

This arrest is brought to you by... This company has come up with the idea of covering police cruisers with advertising as a way for local law-enforcement to deal with budget cuts. Apparently, twelve towns have already gone for it. This group is trying to stop it. Institutions like schools and hospitals are already being taken over by advertising and product placement. Is this any different? "Freeze! You want fries with that?"