Half-Baked Advertisements

Analyzing ads that don't seem to have fully baked in the marketing oven. Goals of investigating brainless ads include: (a) entertainment and (b) potentially learning something about the dumbing-down of society.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Laraque's Octane 7.0 campaign ad

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GEORGES LARAQUE VS OCTANE GIRLS from 33mag on Vimeo . Just amazing. As much as people have complained about the appropriateness of this ad...
Sunday, March 7, 2010

AXE Ad - Spray More, Get More

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At first blush, this ad seems to non-originally focus on the sexual depictions of women (although *many* women and half-naked women in motio...
Sunday, February 7, 2010

Xenergy Energy Drink ad

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Another beauty in the energy drink category. I really "like" this ad because not only does it pull the standard sexual-objectifica...
Thursday, January 7, 2010

Banned Blonde Stereotype Ad - by Mercedes

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Really not that bad, but still pretty insane. What made them think this would fly with the public (unless they intentionally knew it would b...
Sunday, December 13, 2009

Ridiculous Bud Light Ad

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Classic. I know the ad was likely intended to be jocular (i.e., a joke), but wouldn't Bud Light be concerned that the ad wouldn't si...
Monday, April 13, 2009

What's *Your* Backyard Missing?

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Surely not a money-losing lottery ticket! I guess the underlying idea here is (presumably) to get individuals to conjure up images of all th...
Friday, February 13, 2009

Are You Serious?

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Wow, it can't really get more "periphal" (i.e., irrelevant) than this. If you asked me to produce an ad that exploits a more i...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Is That Really What That Means?

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I find the "blatantness" in this ad fairly amusing. On the one hand, this type of ad could turn off individuals that disagree with...
Monday, April 7, 2008

Do It For The Cancer

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Billboard near Talbot and Oxford Street, London, Ontario, Canada. For real? This sounds too good be true! According to Health Canada strictl...
Sunday, April 6, 2008

Wet Kittens

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"Choose Widmer Hefeweizen. Because other hefeweizens might have wet kittens in them." Some people may find this ad amusing. Others...
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