The Giants won and some of the commercials, a true marker of the sporting event’s success, were good. MetLife’s spots were particularly popular. Read more »
The MTA isn’t a fan of “advertising that lends itself to vandalize the system,” but they also don’t seem to be in a position to turn down ad dollars, which might explain how Mad Men (well the agency that booked the media space) pulled off running its current minimalist campaign. Read more »
Here’s a five-year-old child commenting with her impressions of various corporate logos, with that word-gargling baby-lilt little children have… It’s so aww: The KFC logo “looks like a person” and “he matches the color of the restaurant.” Wait. What? Read more »
As a promo for Chronicle, a movie about three high school friends who gain super powers and can fly, a viral marketing agency created custom remote controlled aircraft disguised as humans and flew them around the city. Read more »
NYC Health Department Amputates Man’s Leg for Ad
(Before: left, After: right)
The New York City Department of Health launched a new advertising campaign warning people that if they drink super-sized soda from fast food spots, it could make them very overweight, contradict diabetes, and lose a limb. They articulate this via an image of a one legged man sitting on a stool. But as the New York Times reports, it was Photoshop, not diabetes that amputated the man’s leg. Read more »
The Christians got it all wrong. The Beast of the Apocalypse is not a horned creature from center Earth or a leopard with seven heads. It’s the interactive Forever 21 billboard in the heart of Times Square with mindless tourists, possibly the 50 millionth, waving at it. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork)
Don’t expect this anti-terror PSA from New Jersey Transit to catch on as easily as the MTA’s highly successful one. This probably has more to do with the tagline than it does the visual.
Luck into boarding a certain L train car this week, and you could test out digital agency WeMakeCoolSh.it’s new arty stunt/smartphone gimzo — a private “Missed Connections” chat room with fellow passengers. Let the cryptic flirting begin… in 8-bit! Read more »
Oh, woe, Smiths fans. You’ve heard that Morrissey sold his ultimate anthem to perpetually unrequited love Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want to a department store, right? Watch this improbably sweet lil spawn as your song is murdered. Read more »
Here is the commercial featuring Rudy Giuliani—America’s mayor, not New York’s—talking about how safe the Indian Point power plant is as part of a PR campaign, despite common sense and a recent report claiming the opposite, since it sits on a major fault line. Read more »
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