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Advertising
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Check Out This Hilarious Commercial Starring Rafa Nadal [VIDEO]
11 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Spanish tennis player, Rafael Nadal won his second US Open title on Monday night, and secured his 13th Grand Slam title. On Tuesday morning this piece of advertising gold hit the airwaves.
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Here It Comes: Instagram’s Plan To Sell Advertising
10 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The new Chief Operating Officer of Instagram is Emily White and surprise, surprise, she worked for Google – before moving on to Facebook, before moving on to Facebook’s new acquisition, Instagram. Here’s her plan to sell advertising within the next year.
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Golf Fans (And Everyone Else)You Need To Watch This: Dick Fowler, PI [Video]
03 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is the first episode of the amazingly hilarious Dick Fowler, PI series of commercials, commissioned by Farmers’ Insurance.
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This Parody Of Every Tech Ad Ever Made Is Genius [VIDEO]
29 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Remember how bad the acting was in the last Samsung ad? College Humor has taken the liberty of summing up all the reasons why every tech ad you’ve ever seen is the same. There are a lot of bright lights, like a lot, and repetition, did we mention the bright lights? And check out all of these young people, they have really interesting and creative jobs.
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Did Facebook Use Your Image In An Ad? They’re Paying Out R200 Million – Join The Queue
28 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook is paying out $20 million (R208,899,974) in damages to users who had their personal details used in ads on the site. Even though the details of 150 million Facebook users were used in sponsored stories, only the 614,000 who responded to an email earlier this year will be getting compensation. In a settlement reached […]
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These Companies Are So Awesome They Don’t Need To Advertise
27 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Advertising is everywhere these days. You don’t even realise how many ads you see in a day, but it can be around 4,000 if you get out enough, or spend enough time on the web. Some companies, however, have built such a name for themselves and developed such a following that they don’t need to advertise.
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Beyonce Dropped 23 Grand On Nando’s Last Weekend [PIC]
21 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
What does Beyonce do after headlining V Festival? Go to Nando’s obviously. Go to Nando’s and order 48 chickens – of course. It wasn’t all for her if you were wondering, no, this was not an epic case of the munchies, although that would have been terrific.
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This Ad Featuring Bruce Willis Has Been Banned In Britain [VIDEO]
15 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This Sky Broadband ad, featuring Bruce Willis has been banned in the UK. Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority said: We concluded that the ad did not make sufficiently clear the extent of the commitment consumers had to make in order to obtain the broadband service at the advertised price
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HTC Recruits Robert Downey Junior [VIDEO]
15 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Smartphone and tablet manufacturer HTC has a new $1 billion (R9,9 billion) advertising campaign which is aimed at positioning the company alongside Samsung and Apple. Haha.
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Coca-Cola Defends Sweetener Dangers Amid Declining Sales
15 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Coca-Cola has launched a new print advertising campaign which some have called a “propaganda campaign” in an attempt to reverse declining sales. The ads show the company defending the use of its sweetener, aspartame. The ad reads, “time and again, these low and no calorie sweeteners have shown to be safe, high-quality alternatives to sugar”.
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Radvertising: Local Man Puts His Half Of The Bed On Gumtree After Wife Cheats On Him [PIC]
14 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
This guy isn’t selling a bed, only his side of a bed. The other side still belongs to his “brand new ex-wife”. The ad states that the owner of the other side (the ex-wife) doesn’t mind sharing the bed with complete strangers, but there are other people out there who may be able to claim squatter’s rights on his side, as they spent more time there than he did.
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Radvertising: MINI Develops Car That Plays Videos On Its Body [VIDEOS]
12 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Introducing ‘MINI Art Beat’ as part of MINI’s ‘Not Normal’ campaign. With over 40,000 LED lights attached to the body of the car, the Countryman has become the car that plays videos.
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Controversial E-Cigarette Ads Show Celebrities Smoking, Being Cool [PICS + VIDEO]
12 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The well-documented harmful effects of cigarettes have resulted in higher taxes on tobacco and advertising bans. You might recall the tobacco advertising of old glamourised smoking through celebrity endorsements. And it worked. Remember when you tried your first cigarette? Cool factor, baby.
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Are You A Gay Male Parent? Here’s A Breastfeeding Service Just For You
08 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Following the legalisation of gay marriage in France, a woman has taken it upon herself to provide the babies of homosexual couples in the country with breast milk. She placed an online ad offering her services, which reads: I am a young mother in perfect health, a trained nurse of 29, and I am renting my breasts to milk-feed infants.
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Committee Approves Booze Ad Ban: Here’s The Info You Need To Know
08 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has announced that a proposal for a ban on alcohol advertising has been approved by an inter-ministerial committee on substance abuse. The bill is set to include
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This Awesome Marmite Ad Is About To Be Banned In The UK [VIDEO]
07 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
The latest Marmite advert depicts “Marmite welfare officers” doing the rounds and collecting jars of Marmite that have been abandoned or neglected – and animal welfare advocates are throwing a collective tantrum over it.
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Well Done, Ultra-Conservative South Africa: DSTV Has Been Fined R10,000 For This Ad
07 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
According to the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of SA (BCCSA), MultiChoice has been handed a R10,000 fine for an advert that promoted the ‘Hannibal’ television series. The BCCSA said that on 24 April 2013, the commission received three complaints when the advert was broadcast during Masterchef Australia on M-Net.
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Badvertising: Unskippable Pop Up Video Ads Coming To Facebook
06 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Remember the time Facebook announced it would be launching video ads? Remember how they said their video ads will revolutionise online advertising? Here’s their big plan.
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Sadvertising: Hilarious Ad Suggests People Wearing Crocs Actually Have Sex [VIDEO]
05 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A UK as agency has pulled off a complex and expensive practical joke by producing a television ad showing two people wearing Crocs leading up to sex. The ad agency called Compulsory would have you believe (but they’re totally joking) that Crocs are designed for people who have trouble removing shoes in a moment of passion.
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Badvertising: New Axe Ad Reckons “Women Are Getting Hotter” [VIDEO]
02 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The new Axe Black Chill deodorant advert has provided some interesting comment. The video was uploaded on YouTube on 2 July 2013 and seems to have ruffled the feathers of female’s who find the advert to be offensive.
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Radvertising: Enjoy This Round Up Of Korea’s Wonderfully Weird TV Ads [VIDEO]
02 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ah Korea. This is a compilation of Korean TV commercials from the late 1990s and early 2000s. They may be dated, but they are gold. The ads range from wildly inappropriate exercise equipment demonstrations to energetic dance moves from curly haired mothers, and you need to watch them this Friday afternoon.
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WATCH: World’s First TV Ad, Ever [VIDEO]
02 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ads are everywhere nowadays. You can’t get away from them. But they had to start somewhere. This ad for Bulova, a watch and jewellery company, aired in the US on 1 July, 1941. Only 10 seconds in length with only five words spoken, this is the world’s first television commercial. The spot cost Bulova a whopping $9 […]
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Facebook Will Be Selling TV-Style Commercials For R25 Million A Day
01 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook wants to take on television advertising, hard. The social networking platform wants to sell advertising space on the site in the form of a “TV-style commercial”. Advertising in this format could set you back as much as R25 million a day for a 15 second spot.
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Here’s Bryan Habana Racing An Airbus A380 – Obviously Georgia Jagger Starts The Race [VIDEO]
31 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
British Airways recently collected together Bryan Habana, Jean de Villiers, a rugby player we don’t recognise, and Georgia Jagger for a film and photo shoot. Part of that shoot included the B-train racing the new A380 Airbus, which Georgia started by waving a South African flag. Start this badboy around the 1:15 mark if you […]
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Merger Of World’s Biggest Ad Agencies Brings Pepsi And Coca-Cola Together
30 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
News broke this morning of the largest corporate advertising merger in the history of the industry, bringing giants Omnicom and Publicis under the same roof. But Omnicom counts Pepsi as one of its biggest clients, while Publicis does work for Coca-Cola. That’s the greatest brand war of modern times, right there, in the same house. So, how do they overcome this problem?
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Obviously Women In Tokyo Are Selling Advertising Space On Their Thighs [VIDEO]
22 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is how to get your brand noticed in “advert-saturated” Tokyo. This Tokyo PR agency is using women’s thighs to place adverts.
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Radvertising: SodaStream Rises From The Ashes Of Your Childhood To Take On Big Soda
10 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We’re excited about this one purely because we’d forgotten that SodaStream exists, having drifted so very far from our childhoods. You remember SodaStream. It was what your mate’s mom gave you to drink with your hotdogs after a 45 minute stretch of bombing into the swimming pool off of the trampoline which had been dragged […]
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Radvertising: Ad Vibrates Through Listener’s Skull As They Rest Their Head On Train Window [VIDEO]
05 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Technology that is currently only used by the military and deaf people was recently used by advertising agency BBDO in Germany on behalf of broadcasting company Sky Deutschland. It advertised the company’s new mobile app through bone conduction.
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Radvertising: This Goldberg Machine Involving Carts Of Puppies Is The Cutest Thing You’ll Watch Today [VIDEO]
04 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Cuuuuute! For those of you who don’t know what a Goldberg Machine is, you have obviously never had the luxury of playing the classic board game, Mouse Trap. A Goldberg Machine is in fact a kind of contraption that deliberately performs a simple task, in a complex and over-the-top manner. Purina’s Beneful, a dog food and snacks […]
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Radvertising: Coke Makes Bottles Out Of Ice [VIDEO]
04 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
There is nothing better than an ice-cold Coke and the Coca-Cola Co in Cartagena Columbia, along with Ogilvy & Mather Columbia, decided to use some fun to get this icy point across. Click through to check out the awesome video.
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