April 28, 2008
Eat the kids first
(From Not Cot)
Help the honey bees - Eat more ice cream
Seven TV commercials by Swedish director Roy Andersson. (From Coudal)
Eat the kids first - Passive-Aggressive Soccer Mom Got a Vanity Plate
Playing with Flash and Book of Numbers. (Both, and so much more , from Ample Sanity)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Advertisements Here
April 28, 2008 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
April 12, 2008
Foam City Miami
The new Sony advertising photo campaign is here! Miami foam city advertising shoot. Some YouTube time lapse clips from the recent bubble event
Spoons! At the museum of arts and design
By the way, I wanted to thank everybody who emailed me regarding the freelance writing gig I posted the other day. We have a lawyer checking on some “statutory” considerations relating to a certain IRS code, in order to see how to structure the enterprise. We’ll know soon if the project is possible, and I’ll contact everybody who wrote.
A Huge Depository of Unusual Advertisements Here
April 12, 2008 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
March 12, 2008
Don’t eat bananas
2 more monkey commercials from Sweden
Dear Political Graffiti Artist
Fark Headline from this morning: Spitzer will pull out within the hour, or around $4900 from now
A Huge Depository of Unusual Advertisements Here
March 12, 2008 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
March 04, 2008
What is the fastest "0 to global" brand?
Basically, what brand (company, product, person, any entity that holds a brand identity) do you think gained awareness the fastest?
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
(Please do not click on the answer without trying to figure it out yourself)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Branding & Marketing Here
March 4, 2008 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
February 21, 2008
Museum of Beverage Containers
Art Deco posters found at Bob Staake
Vici Seafood Russian ad (YT. From Puppies and flowers)
The Museum of Beverage Containers and Advertising had its grand opening on Friday, April 3, 1987 in Millersville, Tennessee. (Probably a re-post)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Advertisements Here
February 21, 2008 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
January 29, 2008
McDonald's Beard
McDonald's Beard Ad, directed by Brian Lee Hughes
Go to hell! With Big Bill Hell's (Strong language warning!)
A collection of smart ads
19 unusual advertising concepts. Also, 12 Crazy Old Ads
A Huge Depository of Unusual Advertisements Here
January 29, 2008 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
December 27, 2007
Headless Body Found in Topless Bar
Haddon Sundblom was best known for the images of Santa Claus he created for The Coca-Cola Company. He also designed many of the FormFit ads in the late 1940s and early '50s. His last assignment was for the December 1972 cover of Playboy magazine. (From the extensive American Art Archives, where you can also find an illustrated essay of Pepsi advertising from the 1950s)
Hal Riney's holiday e-card. (From Paula Zargaj-Reynolds)
The Most Controversial Ads in Fashion History
A Huge Depository of Unusual Advertisements Here
December 27, 2007 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
December 19, 2007
Mexican Vintage Ads
Cola for babies - How soon is too soon. (From Quipsologies)
AICP Midwest Sponsor Reel done in 80’s Cheese style
A blog about Mexican Vintage Ads
Lingerie for men, one of the freakiest ads of 12007
A Huge Depository of Unusual Advertisements Here
December 19, 2007 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
November 29, 2007
At Uranus – Things come out a little differently
Play for us by Leo Burnett, Milan for Nintendo
Richard Burton reads from Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood - An ad for Volkswagen Golf. (YT. From Coudal)
Uranus corporation presents Brown 25 (more YT)
1960's Polaroid Pictures of Signs in Washington
An old Lisa ad with Kevin Costner. (From AdFreak)
What Happens Behind the Scenes
A Huge Depository of Unusual Advertisements Here
November 29, 2007 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
November 03, 2007
The Wheel
Don pitches a campaign to Kodak for their new slide projector. (From Mad men)
Another slider banner
Great Moments In Commercial History - Rejuvenique
A Huge Depository of Unusual Advertisements Here
November 3, 2007 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
September 17, 2007
Warped text
How to make lemonade from lemons on $500 ad budget
9 things I learned about the world according to anonymous stock photo models
If You Can Read This, you're probably already drunk. (From Collision Detection)
A Huge Depository of Unusual Advertisements Here
September 17, 2007 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
August 08, 2007
All you can eat
Really Quick FedEx ads
Vintage ad for Gaytop counters from “Found in Mom's Basement” Vintage advertising
100% woman (YT) and other disgusting ads that everybody should hate
More on Slate: There Are 12 Kinds of Ads in the World - Resist them all
A Huge Depository of Unusual Advertisements Here
August 8, 2007 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
May 09, 2007
Need glasses?
Hazel: The Magic Bullet's Cigarette Hag Extraordinaire on “Infomercial Hell”. (From Unknown Highway)
2007 One Show winners
Grab a graphic to link to Grow-a-brain
/// Fark it /// A Huge Depository of Unusual Advertisements Here
May 9, 2007 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
April 20, 2007
Shiny, neon-orange, liquefied pump-cheese, and all
The singing cowboy. (By The Truth)
Andy Warhol Japanese TDK Ad. (YouTubesky)
Iranian Advertising of many western products, 60s-70s. (From The New Shelton)
Swedish vintage ads, posted on flickr by Martin Klasch
Life-size Inflatable Doll and other Classic Comic Book Ads
Popular type of “3D Illusions” street art that was invented by Julian Beever is now being used by other advertisers
Knife throwing for children and other ads I never seem to see
Seen everywhere: Fast Food: Ads vs. Reality
/// Fark it /// A Huge Depository of Unusual Advertisements Here
April 20, 2007 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
March 15, 2007
Happiness in a pill
Spank While You Sell: Corporal punishment imagery in print advertising
Have a slogan generator
Ambient background clips from Children of Men including commercials, billboards, and interface design
Obvious anti-smoking ads
Brazil VS Argentina condom ad
From Crazy Gideon's to Roscoe's BBQ - Bad Local Commercials. Some of them show on The 50 Greatest Local Commercials
Members of The American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA)
Animated Stereogram of a swimming shark above from Militant Platypus
/// Reddit it /// Add it to your del.icio.us /// A Huge Depository of Unusual Advertisements Here
March 15, 2007 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
January 28, 2007
9/11 every day
“Semi-Annual after-Christmas Sale” and other delightful Classified Ads
In an attempt to break through to consumers, advertisers have started to migrate from traditional media to almost anywhere outside the home with a little blank space. (NY Times slide show)
Corporate World Web 2.0 Logo redesign
Every ad in Times Square
More realistic looking ads
Cool Ads # 2
Unrelated item: I can’t figure out what is behind the Stolen ID Search website. It doesn’t show on Technorati as of now, and it doesn’t feel right to me. Your thoughts?...
Re-post: Icon War
/// Add it to your del.icio.us /// A Huge Depository of Unusual Advertisements Here
January 28, 2007 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
December 03, 2006
Marmola Prescription Tablets
Advertisers were sometimes a little heavy-handed during the Great Depression. But this 1937 Personal to Fat Girls advertisement takes the cake, so to speak.
A blogger on a Sonic Commercial
Creative ads in Russian
1963 McDonalds Commercial Introducing Ronald McDonald
The 1st four Geico Caveman ads (and background)
Business Card for a personal trainer that is impossible to read unless stretched apart. It’s made out of very durable material, making it difficult to stretch. (From Coudal)
(Photo above from PLU)
/// Add it to your del.icio.us /// A Huge Depository of Unusual Advertisements Here
December 3, 2006 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
October 02, 2006
Always Milder
Sharpeworld's Commercials mostly from the 70’s & 80’s
An Indian Toothpaste Commercial (YouBoob)
Selling Stuff During the Golden Age of Radio
A responsible consulting organization has reported the results of a continuing study by a competent medical specialist and his staff on the effects of smoking Chesterfield cigarettes
An ad for some insurance company inspired by Katamari Damacy
/// Add it to your del.icio.us /// A Huge Depository of Unusual Advertisements Here
October 2, 2006 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
September 17, 2006
Vintage ads
They’ll do anything to sell you stuff
Ann Miller for Great American Soup, written and directed by Stan Freberg
Subliminal advertising in spam
Re-post: Theo Jansen’s engineered art for BMW South Africa
Vintage Tobacco Advertising. (From Presurfer)
Also, shocking vintage ads from Eat Liver
A few commercials done by Bill Plympton
An ad for the Oslo Gay Festival, June 17-27
(.gif above from ronsens)
/// Add it to your del.icio.us /// A Huge Depository of Unusual Advertisements Here
September 17, 2006 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
August 01, 2006
I was drunk and I regret it
Lost Cannes Lion. Tom Eriksen an employee at Farfar claims to have lost his Lion at the MSN Beach Party after the awards show. He's offering $1000 to the person who can recover his lost lion - or something resembling one. (From Adland)
On location at new Sony Bravia ad shoot. The movie, the flickr slideshow . How it was done. This is a follow-up to the Bouncing Balls Ad that was filmed in San Francisco last year
“HeadOn: Apply directly to the forehead”. The mesmerizing ad for headache gel. (I guess I miss a lot by not having a TV…)
Bad Ads 3 from Worth 1000
A Large Collection of Unusual Ads Here /// Digg this post /// Add it to your del.icio.us
August 1, 2006 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
June 30, 2006
Selling Out
Louis Armstrong pushing Suzy Cute dolls, 1964
Also, Wilkins Coffee commercials by Jim Henson from the sixties, including what seems to be the first Kermit. (From Samizdata)
Other celebrity endorsements - Mandy Patinkin for X-Elscior: Pap Smears are against Jesus!
It happens. Not here, but now, from Amnesty International, Switzerland
Church Marketing Sucks’s mission is to frustrate, educate and motivate the church to communicate, with uncompromising clarity, the truth of Jesus Christ
Yes, this is one of the famous TV commercials for Ayds, a simple diet candy that was supposed to help satisfy your cravings for something sweet long enough to keep you from raiding the fridge and eating higher-calorie items. Unfortunately for the company's marketing department, in 1982 AIDS was starting to become a name known to the public
Haagen-Dazs Launches Flavored Stamps
Pixel ads now take over a building, Personal Stamp Ad and all the other advertising-related posts at The Cool Hunter
So, how do you get your message across and get people talking about your product? You do what Papa John's Pizza did
The Lynx Effect: What do you get when you mix The Swedish Bikini Team with the Carlton Very Big Ad
(Graphic above from J-Walk). A Large Collection of Unusual Ads Here /// Digg this post /// Add it to your del.icio.us
June 30, 2006 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
May 24, 2006
Pull the string
A nice Wonderbra ad. (From Cool Hunter. Also there, the world’s first TV for pigs, a device for smoking when in the presence of a pig)
More interactive Bra Ads at Banner Blog: Snip it, Tickle it or simply Pull it
Creative Department Douchebag, AKA AdMan, by Pete Johnson
The ads of Axes and Alleys, claiming to be an on-going 100 year old tractor magazine
Don’t It Yourself. Some things are better left to professionals
Advertisements on the overhead bins. Every bit of empty space in our lives is slowly being taken over by ads, so why would you want even more?
“Ladies, we have a problem!” The Miami Vice Spoof of Bacardi & Cola
A Large Collection of Unusual Ads Here
May 24, 2006 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
February 16, 2006
Coming to a post office near you -
First Full Motion Stamps! created by the Dutch design studio Solar: stamps made of 12 successive frames of video footage. (From MIT Advertising Lab)
Many fine concepts at Gari Cruze’s Ad Blather: Basketball Nike, promotional FedEx t-shirts, salt & pepper Crackers, ribbed Durex
‘If you're trying to sell something, sometimes that can be humiliating’, from a grizzly bear, and other Miller auditions
Bad ads from the 40’s & 50’s, found @ Baker Kohn
We’re Happy Little Vegemites. (From Mookie)
The Ikea Lamp Spot
Women feel safe with a man who smokes
The cost of official propaganda during the last 30 months: $1.6 billion (53 million per month)
Advertising Coincidences, when different ads from different agencies are using the same idea or image. (From J-Walk). Like the previously-mentioned Rip-off ads
Emerald Nuts TV “oddvertisements”
Utter Fool and other Spoof Ads found on Google Images
A Large Collection of Unusual Ads Here
February 16, 2006 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
December 30, 2005
Logo Hell
Old School Style Carnival Posters. (From ”Land-o-links”)
“But we’re a sandwich company!” Coudal Partner’s new short Copy Goes Here
What does the phrase "A picture is worth ten thousand words" mean to you? Is it more or less meaningful to know that it was written by an advertising executive, to attract clients to his firm?
Confrontational Marketing - Building Brand Awareness in a Saturated Market
A few years ago it seemed that every other logo had a swoosh. (From “Incomplete Imaginations”)
It’s not easy being Sage, and many other clips from Gary L. Gray
Ads of the World ad aggregator
Review of the old Bell symbol History. (From John’s blog)
A list of SNL fake commercials
The distinctive animated ads from Charles Schwab
I am on vacation and am possibly writing on my new Moving to New Zealand blog. This item had been pre-posted for your enjoyment. A Large Collection of Unusual Ads Here
December 30, 2005 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
October 16, 2005
House of Signage
26 Modern advertising cliches. No 1. Men are obsessed with sex but will forego sex in order to watch football or drink beer. No. 2. Women are locked in a constant battle with their weight/body shape/hairstyle.
”Voice-vertising”. Cadbury Adams reintroduces old, but new marketing medium: Town Crier. (From ”Guerrilla-innovation”)
It’s a big Ad, a very big ad… It’s just so freaking HUGH… This ad better sell some bloody beer
Fry's Electronics Ad. (Not operated by, sponsored by, or affiliated with Fry's Electronics in any way)
Coloribus Advertising collections
The Ad Conceptor. How much of the creative process can you automate
Gallery of billboards, signage and other outdoor advertising
A Large Collection of Unusual Ads Here
October 16, 2005 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
August 30, 2005
But First, a Message From Our Sponsor
"False perspective" space in a Quaker Oats commercial directed by Errol Morris, and starring magician Ricky Jay
Last week's New Yorker hits the bright red bull's-eye on advertising chutzpah with an entire issue containing only one advertiser - The middle-brow big-box retailer, Target. Hey, that's just what New York needs: Buildings with targets painted all over them
The old Hank Makes it Flat site from last year was actually a viral campaign by a company called Digital Oxygen that sold Motorola cell phones. I prefer the new ads for Motorola’s Video phones
Telephone ads through the decades
Dandruff and other memorable campaigns by Leo Burnett
Neil French, The Man Who Wrote Too Much. (From Ernie Schenck)
As part of the nature/culture division, we see numerous representations of stupid women in popular culture. The division of the world into the male symbolic realm of culture and the female domestic realm leaves women as intellectually inferior. In popular advertising this trope is expressed in visual senses—as women’s faces are composed in such a way as to suggest stupidity—as well as linguistic senses—women are seen saying stupid things or being portrayed as unable to think for themselves without assistance of a man. 2,500 more images about Gender and advertising
Bumvertising™, the use of sign holding vagrants to advertise
(This is post No. 1600). A Large Collection of Unusual Ads Here
August 30, 2005 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
August 09, 2005
What you see is not what you get
Juliette Lewis and Harry Dean Stanton in âA Band Apartâ Production
Stella Artoisâs Pilot. From Best ads on TV 2005
Norwegian Airlines, where what you see is what you get
Something Awful improving the advertisements put out by the Ad Council, a non-profit group dedicated to important public service announcements such as "don't put crack cocaine in your body and shoot children" and "don't get beaten by your parents or spouse"
Itâs all about Life. Tell me more about Jesus
Red Lobster is now from Maine. By Seth Godinâs âAll Marketers Are Liarsâ: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World
100,000 Bouncy Balls in San Francisco, shot for some commercial. The video
The Baldy Man (Gregor Fisher) in a Photo booth
BBDO flash portfolio
A Large Collection of Unusual Ads Here
August 9, 2005 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
July 03, 2005
Now You're Playing With Power
Delete - Delettering the public space. An installation by Christoph Steinbrener & Rainer Dempf. For a period of two weeks all advertising signs, slogans, pictograms, company names and logos on a Viennese shopping street will be covered in monochrome
Return Of The Train, “making people forget how grim train travel has often been in recent years. Instead, inspire them with a bit of good old-fashioned romance”. Other Top Spots from ‘Board Magazine’
Ad Guy Starter Kit will turn you into a creative genius in no time flat
Alaska Town in need of women. (Not sure what the product is)
Viral Chart tracks, monitors and reports the performance of viral advertising campaigns from around the World
Inadvertent truth in advertising
McDonalds campaign To Serve Man
"Ad" for Levis constructed entirely from denim and standing near seven feet tall
Nike and other evil corporations ruining famous album covers
Gari Cruze’s collection of memorable ads
Beach'n Billboard ads on the sand
More dumb Forehead Marketing. Many More Obnoxious Ads Here
July 3, 2005 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
May 31, 2005
Paris Hilton Commercial
The new Mac ad by Martin and Alex Tobias
Innovative Durex ads
David Frankham’s Talk Talk - People Shapes ad
Ernie Schenck asks: How About A Little More Burger And A Little Less Cheese
McDonaldland's first appearance. From Two All-Beef Patties Special Sauce Lettuce Cheese Pickles Onion on a Sesame Seed - The Freaky Universe of McDonald's Advertising
"In an effort to raise the individual American's awareness of and interest in advertising, the National Advertising Board launched a $32-million "Advertising: Get The Message!" campaign in major markets across the country Monday.
"From lifesaving drugs to new diet beverages, advertising keeps you informed about the products and services you want to buy," a spokeswoman said in a 30-second spot titled "Keep An Eye Out For Ads." "But advertising can't work for you if you don't pay attention!"
Winners of the 2005 Cleo Awards. The "Subservient Chicken" has been voted the "best of show"
7UP Offers Consumers the First Free Ticket into Space
Many More Funny and Unusual Ads Here
May 31, 2005 in Advertising | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
May 03, 2005
Hall of Shame
London placard carriers and 'sandwich men', 1820 -1840. Much like today, London was plastered with advertising, with armies of chalkers and 'external paper hangers' decorating blank walls, empty shops and wooden hoardings with advertisements. The combined inconveniences of an advertising tax and increased competition for poster space led advertisers to a simple conclusion - make the messages become mobile
The fading paint of Wall Ads in Baltimore
P J Chmiel’s Photos of Signs. There aren't many things I appreciate more than an interesting sign or a unique type sample. Both are endangered species in today's world of homogenous, pre-fab vinyl lettering and computer-generated crap. I urge you to notice and document signs like these before they disappear. (From ”Other Stream”. Also, by the same photographer - Photos of Vegan Dishes)
Hurka! Holy crap! It is good to be a Hungarian vegetarian
“Advertising Acres”, Scandinavian magazine ads from the 50’s & 60’s
A “groaner” is a hackneyed, overblown, stuffy or just plain silly cliché that turns up time after time in news scripts. Groaners show laziness on the part of writers, disrespect for the folks watching, and a general contempt for lively English. Here are The 100 Worst “Groaners”. One example: Hospitalized - Bathrooms get sanitized. Shirts get Martinized. People do not get hospitalized. They’re in the hospital
Vintage Toy Adz
The Advertising Slogan Hall of Fame
Drive-In Theater Newspaper Ads. (From Wisconsin Drive-in Theaters: An Evening Under The Stars©)
My favorite Tokyo taxicab brochure is the Japanese armpit-hair-removal ad
GataCine, a Brazilian commercial artist. (Thank you, Eitan)
Women, As Portrayed in British World War II Advertising
Dial-A-Poem Poets, New York City
A closer look at the Hootie Burger King commercial. Other music videos by David Lachapelle
Seemingly-“Edgy” Skittle ads
688 projects from