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, [...]

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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.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Somebody totally has the job of making these web pages. The pages that only exist as a place holder for a trailer. Someone is pumping these things out, I know it – probably in India. By far the best part about the Hot Tub Time Machine page (which I fully plan on seeing) is when [...]

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Great, now I’m hungry. Snickers is making buzz with a teaser for a commercial their supposed-to-air during the Super Bowl. Teasers, they’re such a tease. Remember all the ads for “The Hangover”? They freeze frame in the commercial right as it looks like Ed Helms’ character is going to vomit all over someone. This commercial [...]

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