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Grab Your Shotgun! It’s the Advertising Age of Apocalypse!
by Dan Morgridge Gentlemen! Long time no see. Have you lost weight? New deodorant? Teeth whitened? Something seems new and exciting about you! What product has unleashed your potent but friendly...
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The Unmanliest Ad on TV
by Luke McKinney You’re an idiot, so buy our stuff! Would that work on you? It wouldn’t work on us, and we are idiots. But advertisers have decided that “guys” are a target demographic, and that that...
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Is This Weird Ad a Real Brazilian Starbucks Commercial?
Update: YouTube has no sense of humor and has taken the video down, even though it contains neither nudity nor sex. So here it is on Vimeo instead. We no longer like our coffee like we like our women....
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The Greatest Commercials of the ’90s
by Rob Fee As a teenager in the ‘90s I was highly influenced by any advertising on television mainly because I watched television every waking minute of my life. Some of the commercials were classic,...
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Bird Advertising Takes Flight
One of the biggest complaints about advertising (besides it often lying about whatever it is taking about) is that it’s not “green” — paper and plastic and all kinds of paraphernalia used to promote a...
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Why Aren’t More Tequila Ads like This?
If there’s one thing we love around here, it’s weird-ass ads. Especially speculative ads, like this one for Avion Tequila (or, if you prefer, (Tequila Avion). It’s a lovesong to every unremarkable dude...
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The Six Most Staggeringly Sexist Vodka Adverts
Advertising: convincing fellow humans that something is great no matter what it’s really like. It’s how we created a species of human Judas goats, leading the masses into the mincing blades of...
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Is Young David Koechner in This McDonald’s Training Video?
This is definitely David Koechner at the 16-second mark of this McDonald’s training video, right? I’m claiming this one. I’ve searched “David Koechner McDonald’s” and “David Koechner training video”...
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How Internet Advertising Is Reversing Evolution
Advertising is the pollution of the internet. Our current level of technology means we have to keep producing to do all the cool stuff, but it can make everything look horrible, and if you take in too...
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As East Coast Thaws Out, LA Tourism Board Using Palm Trees, Beaches To Draw...
VENICE (CBSLA) — If you’re reading this, odds are you’re of the mind that the West Coast is the best coast, and this week’s weather puts one point in L.A.’s column. “It’s been a long winter back East,...
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