Buzz Tagged
Advertising
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Image: Google Ads For Iranian Names
Google's ad targeting for the name Amir: "Find Iran Sesy Girls at Great Prices".
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Jessica Simpson’s Beer
Celebrity Buzz Jessica Simpson is now spokesperson and investor in Stampede Light Plus, a new Texas beer. Wearing a cowgirl hat, an unbuttoned shirt, and sitting on piles of hay, Jessica proclaims she likes "a cold beer once in a while" in her new ad. Just like I drink "once or twice a week"...right, Jess?
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Jerry Seinfeld, Microsoft Pitchman
Business Buzz Microsoft's next ad campaign will feature Seinfeldian shtick. It's the plight of the funnyman: Once the funny stops, there's only advertising. Life seems more like Mad Men every day.
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Brad Pitt For Pringles
Celebrity Buzz From the vault: An Australian ad for Pringles from the '90s featuring a pre-fame Pitt. This leaves me wondering: Is Brad Pitt the fever, or the fever reliever?
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Image: Old Sega Ad
Back in the day, Sega was on top of the world - so much so that they could get away with, um, objectionable advertising.
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Sylvania Light Bulb Commercial
Culture Buzz A charming light bulb ad from Thailand. It manages to pull off the rare feat of being entertaining and really making me want to buy light bulbs.
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Line Rider McDonald’s Ad
Business Buzz Cult web game becomes a mainstream ad for Micky D's. The ad is OK but it is much more fun to actually start your own line rider game.
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Elevator Ghost
Business Buzz A viral video appears to be a snippet from a security cam tape showing the ghost of an old woman haunting a well-known office building in Singapore. The creepy video turns out to be a hoax developed by a Singapore advertising company.
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Image: World’s Largest Self-portrait
Using a briefcase loaded with a GPS gadget and the package-carrier DHL, artist Erik Nordenankar has created a continent-spanning drawing of himself.
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The Satinelle Transperson
Culture Buzz Philips is using a cross-dressing dancer named Karis to sell a new line of women’s razors. Karis would have been the perfect person to sell Secret deodorant. Too bad Philips beat them to it.
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Flogos
Culture Buzz A company is making sky-floating cloud-like advertisements made out of plant foam and helium gases. No, you're not high! That really is a Volkswagen logo floating up in the sky.
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You Don’t Need It
Culture Buzz An organization called the Anti-Advertising Agency has started an anti-consumerism guerilla movement. Voice your dissent! With stickers! Unfortunately they haven't yet made a scratch n' sniff or googly-eyed version.
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Are You a Douchebag?
Business Buzz Las Vegas ads reach out to douchebag clientele. If you answer "fo' sho" to any of these questions: Do you know where to get the best spray-on tan? Do you like to show off your nipple ring in public? Do you know the difference between beer and malt liquor? You are eligible for a discount on your hotel room, just enter the promo code DOUCHEBAG at checkout.
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Odd Spokespersons
Celebrity Buzz The new Keith Richards for Louis Vuitton ads inspired us to do a round-up of least likely partnerships. Although it's not really so odd that Keith Richards would become synonymous with leather goods. Oh, the power of branding.
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Vagina Ads
Culture Buzz A fit of vagina obsession hits the advertising world. Feminist blogs, ad blogs and corporate watchdog blogs all agree: A Target billboard in Times Square focuses too much on the crotch, and a new Absolut ad leaves little to the imagination.
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