Will any athlete who actually thought that Chicken McNuggets were their favorite food while at the Olympics please contact me? If no one contacts me I’ll be forced to assume that McDonalds made this up. Please pass this along – I don’t have time to forward this to all the athletes myself. Thanks. Sincerely, Whit [...]
Entries Tagged as 'advertising'
Chicken McNuggests are olympic athletes favorite food!
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: advertising
I was caught, kind of…
February 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment
I made a claim in my last blog post “Stop Babies and Puppies“, that the AICP did not have their video on YouTube. Bad journalism by me – they’ll let anyone blog these days, won’t they‽ Who’s running the Internet anyway? And for that matter, why is Internet capitalized yet my wife is allowed to [...]
Tags: advertising
Stop Babies and Puppies: Cliché ad campaigns
February 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments
My wife works in advertising so we find ourselves talking about ads pretty frequently. More specifically the company she works for does advertising for health care and life style companies. Claire can joke about the commercials that her company and companies like hers make. You know – the ones where if you don’t listen closely, [...]
Tags: advertising
“Look at Your Man”: How They Did It.
February 22nd, 2010 · No Comments
My good friend Aman sent me this video by Leo Laporte. The question was if the whole commercial was done in one shot or not. I won’t spoil it, just watch the video.
Tags: advertising · Videos
“Look at your man, now back to me.”
February 19th, 2010 · No Comments
There is not much to say other than good ads on the Internet are passed around. Make a commercial, pay millions for it to play on TV, or pay nothing for it to play on the Internet. Watch it get views. Creativity is winning the game again. Thanks Old Spice. This ad was passed along [...]
Tags: advertising · Social Media · Videos
Please Tweet and Facebook this photo of my butt, thanks.
February 17th, 2010 · 4 Comments
There are so many reasons why this ad campaign by American Apparel works so well. Ok, really there are two reasons. Reason number one, lots of butts. Boy butts, girl butts, everyone’s butts. Second reason, voting and ranking. Not only do you get to click through the photos, you get to vote 1 – 5 [...]
Tags: advertising · facebook · Social Media · Twitter