MetaFilter posts tagged with advertising and campaign

The Cyber-Ombudsman

zarq — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:24:03 -0800

TruthTeller is an ambitious new automated application built by the Washington Post, which fact checks political speeches, ads and interviews "in as close to real time as possible." The prototype is intended to be a complement to the paper's Fact Checker Blog. More on the project from TechCrunch and Poynter.

The candidate that "cares about people like me."

facehugger — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 22:30:41 -0800

The story behind Mitt Romney’s loss in the presidential campaign to President Obama

The Radiographic Nude

zarq — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:37:03 -0800

"EIZO High End Monitors Medical Imaging" presents: Pin-Up 2010, an x-ray pinup calendar. (Possibly NSFW)

This may be the "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" of political ads

Asparagirl — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:11:51 -0800

Carly Fiorina, perhaps best known as the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, is attempting to become the Republican candidate for Barbara Boxer's long-time Senate seat. But her nomination isn't sewed up yet; her potential GOP challenger is former Congressman and Stanford Law professor Tom Campbell. So earlier today, Fiorina's campaign released this political attack ad against Campbell. It features her newly-minted acronym "FCINO", it's about six times longer than most political ads, it makes copious use of stock photography, and it stars demon sheep with red glowing eyes. Wait, what?

"Want to play a chord? Try not to die."

zarq — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:46:28 -0800

Piano Stairs! (Not everyone thinks they're a good idea.) Also see "The Deepest Trash Can". Both videos are from Volkswagon Sweden, whose new English-language website, TheFunTheory is still under construction. But here's the Swedish-language version.

IT'S ALL PIPES!!!

Sys Rq — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:35:56 -0800

Brazil's new water conservation campaign: Xixi no Banho! (slyt)

But do they play Sam & Dave while you wait?

zarq — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:14:53 -0800

Is Your Soul Weighing You Down? Store It! Or, if you're tired of your own soul, try a new one on for size! Er... uh oh. Company fans can follow on Twitter and Facebook. Reps have been passing out flyers all over NYC. Movie tie-in. More.

Awards can't save forests.

divabat — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:25:57 -0800

Awards can't feed the hungry. (via, with supporting links)

Think. Again.

Non Prosequitur — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:40:38 -0800

From The Atlantic, a fun bunch of montages of interesting people answering questions like "What is the cost of being a nerd?", "When is evil cool?" and "Are good books bad for you?" (Accompanies a redesign of magazine as well as of the web site. In seeking readers and advertisers, publications like The Atlantic and The Economist, known as thought-leader magazines, have long tried to make up in cleverness what they lack in wallet power.)

Bringing Change You Can Believe In to Xbox 360

Ironmouth — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:19:46 -0800

Obama Advertising in Video Games Obama campaigning in XBox 360's Burnout Paradise. Although Mark Warner did it first with his video appearance in Second Life, Senator Obama has gone one step further and is advertising on Xbox 360. Obama is campaigning on the Electronic Arts/Criterion Games Burnout Paradise, EA's improbably named spokesperson Holly Rockwood has confirmed. But does his advertising go counter to his message? Indeed, the Democratic candidate for the Presidency told Americans to "turn off the television set, and put the video games away,” in order to improve America's youth.

Filter for president! It's a mildly amusing prank that's also a viral ad!

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:08:32 -0800

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Best,

gnfti

Nader's new television ad

daveadams — Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:12:21 -0800

Nader's new television ad parodies those hilarious monster.com ads with the little kids hoping they'll grow up to have crappy jobs. In the Nader ad, the kids hope they'll grow up to have the same crappy politicians, sold out to corporations, with no real change.

dcehr — Mon, 07 Aug 2000 09:19:37 -0800

I approached this review expecting it to be of the "major media providers are the problem, not the solution" sort, but discovered something somewhat different: "It’s not that the medium of the modern political campaign–television advertising–failed to do justice to men of substance, but that men of substance failed to adapt to television advertising..."