Everybody Loves Aussie Dick!
Enough with the over-produced American Superbowl ads. Here’s a little spot from Aussie Dick Smith pushing his homegrown OzeMite brands. H/T Blazing Cat Fur
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Finding righteous currents in turbulent times
Archive for the tag “advertising”
The Superbowl Ad Wars Begin
Sometimes, the Superbowl ads provoke more lively debate than the game itself. Here’s a sneak peek at one of the first 2013 Superbowl commercials to be unveiled — a humorous spot for Toyota starring Kaley Cuoco from the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory. She’s doing a little channeling of Samantha from Bewitched.
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Ideas Are An Inefficiency
Want to leverage social media to succeed in the new economy? Don’t think. Don’t work. Never inject an ounce of effort into it. H/T IMAO
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Cane Toad Road
In this clever Ford commercial from Australia, two cane toads sit on a road at night as a car approaches, discussing poisonous venom, love and how quickly they ought to leap to safety.
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World of Beers LIX
On tap tonight: Heineken, Netherlands.
Passing the Swiss neutrality test. Commercial shot in Switzerland for airing in the United Kingdom.
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Betcha Bacon
A DAY OF BACON
In the 1970s, you could eat bacon right out of the box. Here’s a 1972 vintage commercial for Betcha Bacon, bacon strip chips featuring a young, red-haired Mason Reese as their pitchman. You might remember Reese because he also appeared in ads for Dunkin’ Donuts, Underwood Deviled Ham and other delicacies. The Betcha Bacon jingle: “Betcha when you buy a box, you betcha wish you bought a batch.”
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And just to prove bacon is the universal language, Canadians love bacon.
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And so do British nudists!
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Back to the Barnyard, PETA
A California judge has tossed out a lawsuit filed by the radical animal activist group, PETA, seeking to prevent California dairy farmers from running their “Happy Cows” marketing campaign. PETA, or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, had complained that the campaign was misleading, charging that “most California dairy cows are subjected to physical and psychological pain and stress caused by intense and uncomfortable dairying practices…”
But Superior Court Judge Lloyd G. Connelly in Sacramento dismissed the suit on the grounds that PETA failed to provide any evidence demonstrating that California farmers mistreat dairy cows. Connelly cited the findings of state agriculture inspectors and the state dairy board that California dairy farmers “are very concerned about the health, comfort and safety of their cows” and “adhere to some of the highest animal welfare standards in the U.S.”
Bully to Judge Connelly for taking a rational, adult stand, and for refusing to entertain PETA’s frivolous lawsuit. PETA is a litigious fringe group full of miserable and moo-dy human beings. About time they were held up for some barnyard ridicule. Score 1 for Happy Cows, 0 for laughing-stock extremists.
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Size Doesn’t Matter
Sex or travel? Your choice for a honeymoon…Israeli tourism marketing campaign aimed at the Canadian traveler.
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L.H.O.O.Q.
In 1919, the Surrealist Marcel Duchamp shocked the art world by drawing a mustache and beard on a cheap postcard reproduction of the Mona Lisa, and then appending the title “L.H.O.O.Q.” The latter blasphemy was a wicked pun, meant to evoke the French expression, “Elle a chaud au cul,” which translates as “She has a hot ass.”
Now, a Buenos Aires advertising agency has combined some larger-than-life Surrealist imagery with the everyday fantasy of making like Chuck Norris and kicking some serious ass. It might sound like a recipe for disaster or deviancy, but happiness ensues, and it’s all for a good cause — to market Diesel sneakers. H/T culturepub
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Yeah, That’s the Ticket!
Instapundit Glenn Reynolds recommends that Mitt Romney hire Jon Lovitz to read from Obama campaign commercials while masquerading as Tommy Flanagan of Pathological Liars Anonymous. Hard to imagine what could top that, unless he was being goaded on at the same time, by Jodi Miller off to his right, and Bill Maher off to his left, on how to play each embellishment. Wonder who would wear Lovitz’s old red devil suit?
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