Ever made fun of a commercial, a TV show, or a romantic comedy? Of course you have. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel. But even shooting fish in a barrel can be done with style. Check out Info Mania’s Sarah Haskins’ Target Women spots in which Haskins dissects how the media types depicts we women types, especially when it comes to those matters so dear to the lady brain, like
Botox,
birth control,
chick flicks,
female political candidates,
number two,
cleaning,
jewelry,
diets,
aging,
skin care,
the Oscars,
Disney Princesses,
vampires,
The View,
Michelle Obama’s arms,
Lifetime programming,
chocolate,
lady parts,
laundry,
security,
weddings, and of course that official food of women,
yogurt. You can find a complete listing of Target Women spots
here.
posted by orange swan
on Jan 20, 2010 -
72 comments
It's time to get ready for the Super Bowl... Ads! Adland has freely available archives of 37 years of commercials from the big game, over 2,800 ads - from 1969, when
Winston,
Salem,
Camel,
Tareyton,
Pall Mall, and
Silva Thins smoked up the Bowl *
cough-cough*, all the way to 2008, when the best-liked ad was
Bud's dalmation inspiration (how do we know it was best liked?
SCIENCE!). Some highlights of the collection include:
[more inside]
posted by taz
on Jan 29, 2009 -
40 comments
Everything about the Super Bowl ads is here. You can vote on your favorites and least favorites, see what the experts picked, see the controversial spots that didn't make the cut, and more. (There are also links to info about some game that was played yesterday).
My favorites? The Ameriquest ads: the one where the cat knocks over the sauce and it looks to the girlfriend like the guy is killing the cat, and the ad where the guy at the convenience store is mistaken for a robber.
posted by braun_richard
on Feb 7, 2005 -
43 comments
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.
posted by Fantt
on Jan 24, 2005 -
26 comments
Friday Fun! It's good to see a local advertiser with the guts to go for a "funny" ad campaign. I imagine these get a good response. If I lived in Oregon, this place would get my business (well, if they sold Hondas). Viva la Trunk Monkey!
posted by Ynoxas
on Jul 9, 2004 -
14 comments
Best ad campaigns of the last 20 years Adweek posts its list of the 20 best ad campaigns over the last 20 years. Of the 20, two were single commercials rather than entire campaigns. One was Apple's "1984" ad; I won't spoil the other one for you.
posted by joaquim
on Jan 15, 2003 -
14 comments
Space Needle Missing from the Seattle Skyline? (subscription) The rumor is someone bought the Space Needle in Seattle and moved it to their house. No! It was an ad for the lottery. Do TV channels need to make it clearer that something is an ad, or do people need to be more careful watching TV?
posted by scudder
on Oct 17, 2002 -
28 comments
Smokey's Vault: all about the history of the campaign, the "real" Smokey Bear, and Smokey's unique place in American culture. Created in 1944, the Smokey Bear campaign is the longest running public service campaign in US History. Smokey's forest fire prevention message remained unchanged for 50 years until April 2001, when the Ad Council updated his message to address the increasing number of wildfires in the nation's wildlands.
posted by josephtate
on Aug 24, 2002 -
11 comments
Journalists response to the web wide debate sparked after their
interview with Jamie Kellner CEO of Turner Broadcasting. Where he likened not viewing the adverts to theft.
It's a story I was very interested in and it seems it caused a fair amount of
debate. Other than the
'Osama is evil' explosion what's your favorite meme with legs ?
posted by mrben
on May 30, 2002 -
8 comments
Watching the golden globes there was a commercial for something called mlife, so
this link works, and is quite content-free. anyone have any ideas, other than
this :) which somehow i don't think is cool enough for a big ad-campaign.
posted by rhyax
on Jan 20, 2002 -
32 comments
Is it me or does this animated
beer ad owe a not inconsiderable debt to this
internet 'classic' (their phrase)?
WARNING! WMV and Flash links respectively, also whilst I'm at it, WARNING! Ladies Beer and Language/Dismemberment respectively.
posted by wassock
on Dec 23, 2001 -
6 comments
Brand virus leaps to another level. Law & Order episodes on TNT next month will have ads digitally inserted.
Which reminds me--I was thinking about a device that would
remove objects (say, Bruce Willis) from any channel I pick. . .I say
we should get paid for watching ads customized to our specifications. (via
Q)
posted by aflakete
on May 27, 2001 -
15 comments
Well, only 10 shopping days left until Super B(bleep)l Sunday, and of course, everyone's ready for the big... commercials.
This one, from People for Eating Tasty Animals -- er, um, sorry; mispronounced that -- was refused by CBS, or so saith the minions at AdCritic. Hope they're planning a Superbowl focus page during and after the show. They really oughtta hold a vote. No, wait... it would take too long. :-}
posted by baylink
on Jan 18, 2001 -
7 comments
AdCritic has finally posted my favorite commercials: a series of ads for the Fox Regional Sports Report. They present intriguing new sports from around the world. Areas covered include
China,
India,
Russia,
South Africa, and
Turkey.
posted by Aaaugh!
on Dec 25, 2000 -
11 comments
Remember
those PSA's the tobacco companies said violated their agreement with the federal government? Well,
they're back, and harsher than ever
I saw the body bag commercial last night at 3 am . . . when all PSA are played.
posted by alan
on Sep 22, 2000 -
7 comments
CBS said
NO! Reebok said yes.
If you have watched survivor, many of you may have noticed the ads for Reebok that push the limits of your imagination... somewhat. Now, watch the ad that CBS won't air. But Reebok has kindly put up on their website.
Is this a new low for TV? Or just another barrier being breached?
posted by da5id
on Aug 7, 2000 -
1 comment
