A 20-something’s opinion on what you call advertising.

Archive for November, 2007

Anamoly made Virgin America’s Safety Video?

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 Posted in Design | No Comments »

Anamoly has created Virgin America's new airplane safety video. That alone is a conundrum. Now let's compare it to, I don't know, Air Canada. Which one would you rather watch?

Totally did this in highschool

Monday, November 26th, 2007 Posted in Print | No Comments »

Advertising copycat syndrome exposed

Friday, November 23rd, 2007 Posted in Recycled Creative | No Comments »

Even the New York Times is now venting about how many ads on TV look like derivatives of one another. Check out "Imitation hits the Marketing Business. Again." for the last word on the matter.

The most glorious media buy in all history

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007 Posted in Media | No Comments »

This is one of the best ambushes I have ever seen. And they pulled it off on the internet no less. Just goes to show media placement can be just as important as the ad itself. On top of that, they ...

McDonald’s gets their groove back

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 Posted in TV | No Comments »

If you ignore the fact that McDonald's makes you fat and that one Big Mac is half your allowed calorie intake for the day then you can see the beauty in this ad. It's dead simple. It's cool. And it has ...

It’s just clutter

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 Posted in Ambient | No Comments »

If you can wrap it, chances are someone will be willing to sell you ad space there. Case in point, escalator handrails. Everybody knows escalator stairs and the floors around escalators are soooo last year. Is the argument that this is ...

Off for the weekend

Friday, November 16th, 2007 Posted in Fun | No Comments »

Much needed break from work this weekend. Welcome to Halifax Andrew. You most likely won't remember it...

TomTom wastes my time

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 Posted in Web | No Comments »

TomTom wins the award for wasting the most amount of my time today. I waited for 5 minutes and I only got as far as you see in the picture. If anyone actually gets the thing to load, tell me about ...

The future of the :30

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 Posted in Opinion | 1 Comment »

"The 30-second spot is dead. So is the 60-second. People just don't have the attention span anymore." MarketingMag.ca Pretty bold statement for a publication when 72% of its readership is affiliated with the advertising industry. Granted Mr. Gerlsbeck was just trying ...

Part I: Recycled Creative

Monday, November 12th, 2007 Posted in Recycled Creative | No Comments »

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