Tag: Advertising
A perfectly reasonable, benign ad for cannabis played at the NASCAR Brickyard 400 this past weekend. The spot played on a big video screen near the track’s entrance, and espoused the idea that weed could be the next (possibly even better) beer–no calories, no hangover, no links to reckless or violent behavior. Predictably, some puritanical […]
The MTA really loves their “see something, say something” campaign and according to New York Magazine, has “licensed it to 54 different agencies around the world.” One of those agencies is the Department of Homeland Security, which is taking that message above ground and applying it to life in general. The lazily hued new ad […]
Since there’s nothing newsworthy happening in the world right now except for the summertime conditions in New York City being too summery, here’re some vintage air conditioner ads. They harken back to an era when the ubiquitous appliance that we all take so easily for granted, was still quite the marvel of technology. The ads […]
If you happened to see a bunch of dudes in charmingly crappy Ben Franklin costumes chillin’ around the city recently, here’s why. Mother, our sugar momma, AKA the ad agency that keeps our lights on, created this cheeky spot for Virgin Mobile to spread the word about a pretty great offer the company is offering–a […]
America’s favorite arson-preventing propagandist bear, Smokey, is back (just in time for Earth Day), but his message is still the same. “Only You Can Prevent Wildfires,” reads the iconic slogan on a billboard in a low income area of Bed Stuy — a demographic notorious for torching forests. According to a colleague, the ads are […]
The Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn launched a campaign this month, proclaiming Jesus Christ to be “The Original Hipster.” The ads appear at bus stations and on phone kiosks in Brooklyn and Queens. There is no explanation to this mysterious statement. But there are “hipster” red Converse shoes peaking out of the Savior’s robe, his feat arranged in a nonchalant “hipster” […]
Oh, just so you know, this has absolutely nothing to do with anything Pussy Riot stands for, except for the blatant hijacking of their signature balaclavas and the “Free Pussy Riot” song Peaches wrote for Pussy Riot. Every possible explanation that lingerie brand’s ad department is seeding into the YouTube comments by dropping the FreePussyRiot.org […]
Some brilliant anonymous advertising professional set up The Creative Confessional, a kind of ad industry PostSecret which allows designers, copywriters, creative directors and video editors to anonymously submit the dirtiest deeds and darkest thoughts they’ve ever done or had on the job without fear of repercussion. The offenses range from the sordid (I’m cheating on my […]
A Bulgarian couple in Queens with dreams of grad school are generating income by giving people the opportunity to rent out their faces to say whatever you want. For $99 a day, you tell Lou Milonov or Vessy Angelova what you want them to paint on their cheeks. (You can choose to buy Milonov’s or […]
