Leading into Season Four, which premieres on Sunday July 25, 2010 at 10 p.m. on AMC, the network has released a string of “A Fresh Start…” teaser clips [Read more...]
{iStyle} HOW TO: Dress Like You Just Stepped Out of MAD MEN
AMC’s Emmy-Award Winning and ultra golden oldies hip television show Mad Men is pure vintage goodness.
So, while, there is a fine line between looking contemporary classic and actually looking like you are going to a 1960s themed dance party, a few period-inspired pieces can go a long way.
…You too, can look the part without looking like you stepped back in time, literally. [Read more...]
Calling IKEA: MAD MEN Season 4 Revealed
It’s baaaaaaaack.
And as much as you want to hate him, McDraper Dreaminess is one fine piece of AD man.
Around this time in 2009 AMC revealed the poster for the third season, [Read more...]
Social Media and ADIDAS: The Quest
The final chapter has begun. At the 2010 FIFA World Cup â„¢, eternal glory awaits the fastest, the strongest and the most skillful. Join us for The Quest featuring The Spark, The Powerhouse and The Maestro. Who will lead his team to victory?
Sport, social media and football joined forces for ADIDAS in “The Quest.” It’s the culmination of the “Every Team Needs” graphic-novel featuring Zinedine Zidane, Lionel Messi (“The Spark”), Steven Gerrard (“The Powerhouse”), Kaka (“The Maestro”) and Xavi (“The General”), amongst others.
Perfectly timed before the FIFA World Cup in South Africa and integrated fully into social media, “The Quest” takes international football to a whole new [Read more...]
BP Oil Spill Reaction AD feat. Tony Hayward: Sincere or Pure PR?
Released on June 3, 2010, BP has a new advertisement out featuring CEO Tony Hayward apologizing for the oil spill.
He talks about the company’s efforts to clean up the spill that is ravaging and destroying the ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico as we speak.
{ADbitious} Disney + Star Wars = Shiney Happy Sith #jedi
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The Mouse strikes back and may the Sith be with you because my little Jedi knights, this is just so full of awesomesauce-Force it has Darth Maul seeing rainbows.
…against his will.
…literally.
I’m talking about Disney’s Star Wars weekends! (As a native Floridian, how was I unaware of these?! Dudeee…) But *squeee!*
How awesome would it be to put on your best set of dominatrix boots and rub apples with [Read more...]
Red Friend Tomfoolery: the Tampon & the Advertisement that sort of is?
As *ahem* ladies products adverts go, well, they’re typically nothing like what it’s really like when one’s little friend called Red comes to visit each month.
Boys, let me educate you, contrary to what most of the advertising industry is showing you on television, no we don’t wear yoga and spandex for a week, no we don’t want to gallop for glee and ride horses along the beach, no we don’t feel like donning a red dress and going salsa dancing and most certainly not do we want to fly seven feet in the air in skimpy cheerleading uniforms doing tricks.
Which is precisely why these new adverts (both traditional print and made for television) from Kotex are actually pretty cool. They are marketing the products by parodying [Read more...]
Take Home Your Very Own Don Draper: MAD MEN, the Barbie Dolls
Oh no they didn’t! Oh yes, indeed, they did. Advertising Barbie and Ken are here!
Now you too, ladies and gay gents, can take home your very own Don Draper, Roger Sterling, Joan Holloway and Betty Draper from Mattel.
From Oprah, to Jeopardy, to Saturday Night Live to a Simpson’s spoof — it’s all about advertising in the 1960s.
Releasing later in 2010, the dolls are part of Mattel’s Barbie Fashion Model Collection and will retail for approximately $74.95 USD each. Considered premium-price collector’s dolls, they are in the same company as the [Read more...]
Much Ado About Nothing #Tebow Advert & Branding
One advertisement, one image and a ton to talk about.
I know I’m a bit late discussing this, but I just had to eventually because it’s got so many things going on around it: I’m talking about the 2010 Pam and Tim Tebow advertisement for Focus on the Family that was aired during the Super Bowl [Read more...]
{ADbitious} Lincoln MKZ’s Luxury at Light Speed! and Shiny Toy Guns
If you are like me, then you’ve been watching that commercial for the Luxury at Lightspeed Lincoln MKZ and saying to yourself, “Ooooh pretty, I love that song!”
So, I don’t know about you … but didn’t have my childhood in the 80s, I was just born in the 80s and therefore, I didn’t know [Read more...]
{ADbitious} Palm Pixi AD is very much “Give Fun, Get Fun” #advertising
This is the new Palm Pixi advert from Spint and it’s super cute. I have no other way to describe it other than it makes me feel good when I see it.
The imagery is light, airy, [Read more...]
Advertising Battle: Nudity, Catholicism & PETA
Joanna Krupa’s latest advert for PETA has the Catholic Church in a high rolling spin of naked proportions…and apparently some very misguided ones too.
The President of the Catholic League [Read more...]
NSFW {ADbitious} – Frightening French and German AIDS Adverts
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WARNING: NSFW — this post contains content of a dubious nature, that may be unsuitable for persons under the age of 18. If nudity, sex, psycho dictators (Hitler, Stalin, Sadaam), insects and AIDS offends you, walk away from this post NOW. You have been warned.
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I have no words.
But I will say this, because today is World AIDS Day, there is no time like the present to show you some seriously frightening, borderline disturbing, anti-AIDS advertisements.
They certainly got my attention.
You be the judge [Read more...]
{ADbitious} Top ADs of the 2000s
ADweekMedia has put together their voting booth for the awards in advertising for the decade. Crazy, isn’t it? 2010 is almost upon us.
Below is a list and the adverts for their top choices in commercial advertising.
Is there anyone you think that is missing? I’ve already voted and I’ll tell you which advert really stood out to me above the rest in my personal opinion:- The Dove “Evolution” advert by Ogilvy & Mather.
Why?
Because I think, that this was something that needed to be said. I even blogged about it back in August 2009. So while, I’ve always had a soft spot for the Guinness campaigns (the surfer and the water horses — my favorite ever) as well as the “Keep Walking” campaign from Johnnie Walker and Smirnoff’s “Tea Partay” cracked me up for days I chose based on a personal thing.
Even so, Budweiser (frogs) and Cadbury (gorilla – wow) made me smile, Will.IAm’s “Yes We Can” for Obama gave me chills, Levi’s (dramatic classical music with jeans, love it!) and Geico (cavemen and Martin the Gecko) were awesome, but Dove’s “Evolution” was the top for me.
This is the official list below [Read more...]
