I just witnessed an interactive commercial on my Comcast cable. It was an ad about the NFL package they offer, and a little balloon popped up offering me to learn more about the NFL package or to “x” out of it. I could make my choice by utilizing the arrow buttons on my remote.
Has anyone else seen this yet?
A current teaser trailer for the new G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra movie features the song American Badass by Kid Rock - at least on TV. However, the spot cuts off the syllable ‘ass’ and this is how the clip ends. SO, a movie about American heroes that I believe the producers hope will make all Americans stand up and shout things like “America is the greatest country on earth!” ends with these words: I am American Bad. I think this qualifies as an Epic Fail [link to my favorite].
Below is a clip of the spot - except they must not have Internet rights for the song because they aren’t using it at all in this video:
Here is a clip of a movie I think of everytime I see the G.I. Joe commercials:
[editor’s note: the tag of wise is only in reference to the Team America World Police song]
Back in my youth when I used to share an apartment, I remember overhearing a fight between my room mate and his girlfriend of the time who often spent the weekend. She was complaining about the grocery bill, and in particular about how much money he spent on toilet paper. She asked him, “Why do you go through so much toilet paper every week?” His loud and angry answer was, “Because I don’t want my hand to smell like shit!”
Well, technology and genius of invention have finally come together to solve his problem (albeit, 15 years too late). This video and blog post are dedicated to him, who I shall only refer to by his initials: M.S.
A very informative doomsayer piece on the present and future of media was just published in AdAge. Well worth the read.
I saw both of these ads via Ads of the World. The Tom and Jerry ad is for a pest control service and was created by a Bolivian ad agency, while the Mr. Roarke and Tattoo piece is for a laser tattoo removal service created by a US agency.
Anyway, I think both of these are especially clever and it reminds me of one of my favorite billboard executions I have ever seen (displayed below is a print ad version as I couldn’t find the billboard image).
Boiled down, I guess these concepts are really nothing more than visual puns… but, I like them. Does anyone know of others?
I imagine the developer’s pitch went something like this:
Songsmith Creator: Do you know how everybody just loves that Muzak elevator music? Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could just blather anything you want and some Muzak was automatically created to go along with it?
Microsoft Product Manager: Wow, that sounds amazing! Could you add some nearly useless slider controls that make marginal changes to the music so completely talentless people could feel they were somehow creative?
Songsmith Creator: You betcha!
This is some impressive button pushing:
“Linus, the creative gangbang worked - great job”
*Are They F*cking Kidding Me They Must Be On Crack
