‘Escort Quality, Hooker Pricing’

I thought this was a joke but apparently it's for real and they're removing the billboard from one neighborhood but letting it remain in others.

The above billboard ad for Wodka vodka so offended residents of the Hunts Point neighborhood in the Bronx that it was removed just one day after community leaders complained about it to the advertising agency and in the media. The Wodka billboard, which hung over the Bruckner Expressway, an area known for its brazen streetwalkers, read “Escort Quality, Hooker Pricing.”

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The secret to getting people to click on ads online? Cats

Red Square Agency ran four ads on Facebook all limited in content by Facebook's space constraints. The fourth ad featured Cous Cous the cat and read: “This ad features a cat: It has nothing to do with Red Square Agency but we hope you’ll click on it anyway.” The cat ad got a terrific response. So they ran a second ad with the cat.

The numbers show that the ads are working. The click-through rate is equal to that of the original Cous Cous, and 11 per cent of the people clicking on the ads actually calling the agency.

Research on internet advertising has shown that ads featuring breasts achieved a 61 per cent higher response rate than those that didn’t. Perhaps Red Square would get maximum bang for their buck if they ran another ad that had Cous Cous flashing some cleavage....

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Paul the Chair

No one knows chairs better than he. Another clever IKEA commercial.



Via - John Gushue . . . Dot Dot Dot

There's No Beauty in Cruelty Ad Campaign

Advertising Agency: Draftfcb+Shimoni Finkelstein Barki, Israel

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Wüsthof Knives: Snowwhite

This is a lovely ad for Wüsthof Knives. What they don't tell you is that this type of peeling requires impossible manual dexterity.

Advertising Agency: Jung von Matt/Alster, Hamburg, Germany
Executive Creative Directors: Armin Jochum, Deneke von Welzien
Senior Art Director: Andre Price
Art Director: Florian Zwinge
Post production: the Scope
Retoucher: Marius Schwiegk
Photographer: Volker Wenzlawski
Designer: Tilman Gossner
Art Buyer: Karen Blome

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When you see a tuna, think panda

The bluefin tune is now critically endangered to the point of extinction. Industrial overfishing, fueled by the voracious appetite for tuna in several parts of Asia, is killing off the remaining breeding populations. Act quickly to save what’s left. Don’t sell, buy or eat this endangered species. And please support the bluefin defense campaign. Operation Blue Rage, at www.seashepherd.org

Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Singapore
Art Directors: Stuart Mills, Anthony Tham
Copywriter: Jagdish Ramakrishnan

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The Show Mustn't Go On

Support animal-free circuses.

Advertising Agency: cOOkies adv, Milan, Italy
Creative Directors: Francesca MudanAlba Ronchi
Art Directors: Alina Piccolotti, Andrea Di Castri
Copywriter: Massimo Guastini

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A Collection of Vintage Cheese Labels

A lovely collection of vintage labels found orphaned on eBay.

See more labels and read the essay about mid-century branding at Design Observer

There's always someone who matches to you.

You just have to know where to find them.

A clever ad for a dating service by Binder Visão Estratégica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Every 43 seconds someone dies from gun violence

Francois Robert was the artist behind this advertising campaign by Jung von Matt for Gesellschaft fur bedrohte Volker.

Link - Via The Daily What

The most inventive tear-off phone number street ad ever.

This ad for a Turkish circumciser, is brilliant.

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Thanks again Bruce!

Elsie and Elmer

When I was a little girl in Ville St. Pierre there was a Borden dairy up the road in Montreal West. On nice evenings my sisters and I would walk up there with my mother. I always chose a sundae with chocolate ice cream with chocolate sauce. There was a billboard outside with three dimensional Elsie and Elmer heads. I loved those walks with a special treat at the end.



Mark's Scrapbook of Oddities & Treasures. - A collage of the old Borden print ads

38 years of Super Bowl Commercials.

Adland's impressive collection of 38 years of Super Bowl Commercials:

"Welcome to the worlds largest archive of superbowl commercials. In some years all the regional ads are included as well, but 'banned ads' that claim to have been rejected from the superbowl are not - if it aired nationally during the superbowl, it's included. We now have 38 out of the 44 super bowl years, making this the worlds largest collection of super bowl ads."

Check out this cheeky Noxema ad from 1973 featuring Joe Namath and Farrah Fawcett:

Noxzema Joe Namath / Farah Fawcett(1973) 0:30 (USA)

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The Ad-O-Matic

The Ad-O-Matic from James Kiersted on Vimeo.

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Ben Franklin meets the Kool-Aid Man

Seen at Uncertain Times

Tipping Point

Guiness took dominos-tipping to a much bigger scale with their most expensive ad ever ($20 million) which they filmed on location in Iruya, Argentina.

Check out the making of the ad:

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Do these commercials make you want to smoke?

Float Your Way To A Spotless Floor - Glo-coat

I once had a party that left hundreds of black heel marks in its wake. If only I'd known about Glo-coat.

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Stella Artois - Smooth Originals

This is a pretty incredible new viral campaign from Stella Artois, they've recreated Die Hard, 8 Mile and 24 in the style of classic french cinema, and the results are amazing.

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The Zodiac Race

"The Zodiac Race” brings to life, with some hints of classic Animé style, the Japanese legend of a race that animals ran to win spots on the zodiac. It also ties into a hand-made diorama of an Onitsuka Tiger shoe that will be travelling the world as part of the campaign.
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