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TAG RESULTS FOR: advertising
Nature, Inc.
Nature as marketing campaign? That shit’s fucked up. Video after the jump. Continue reading
This Intel Ad is Like a Day in the Life
A breakneck desktop adventure offers an uncanny sense of what daily life is like for a tech blogger. Video after the jump. Continue reading
The Mountain of Broken Toys
Depicting skiers as gadgets of a kind, a resort’s promotion reminds us of the clockwork appeal of toys, models, and virtual worlds. Continue reading
LunaTik Kicks Crowdfunding into High Gear
What does the phenomenal success of this crowdfunded wristwatch case for the iPod Nano say about what people want from tech? Continue reading
Unevenly distributed: love on the phone, yesterday and today
“We speak on the phone, but where is your body?” Suzanne Fellini sings in “Love On the Phone.” You can’t push on a string; you can’t embrace over a wire. But can the wire embrace us? Continue reading
Science Fantasy
“Data envelops and surrounds a newborn in a neonatal ward, forming a protective shell/blanket/mobile—we might even think of it as bathwater. It’s magical no, wait, it’s science!” Continue reading
Advertising and pseudoscience: the Polamolecule
Some “products dive even deeper,” says Joshua Glenn, “down to the cellular level—where a shampoo’s ionic, nanorobotic, or I-don’t-know-whatic technology causes the cells within a single strand of hair to oscillate through rejuvenating vibrational motions.” Continue reading
This is The Worst Ad Placement of All Time
Awful advertising isn’t limited to the confines of the internet. I thought I had collected a pretty impressive variety of terrible ad placement, but this – this pretty much punches all of the other examples in the ovaries and then proceeds to curb stomp them. I understand that many drycleaners are owned by foreigners who might not quite put two and two together. There might be something lost in translation here. But for those who actually get it, it’s not... Continue reading
Camera-Wielding Inflatable Giant Invades Tokyo
In a culture that’s been terrified by monsters like Godzilla and Mothra for decades, I’m not sure an inflatable giant was the best choice of advertising mediums for the people of Tokyo, Japan. Panasonic used a gigantic inflatable model of their celebrity spokeswoman, Ayase Haruka, wielding a Lumix FX700 larger than two humans, to convince/terrorize the people of Tokyo to purchase their newest digital camera release. Spectators on the scene reported that the crowd was both “confused and scared” of... Continue reading
The Absolute Worst Internet Ad Placements of All Time
AdSense has been both a blessing and a scourge of the internet. In some cases, it has absolutely destroyed the concept of contextual ads. The most effective form of advertising these days is still the kind you do yourself, the hardware kind, which we’ve seen awesome examples of over and over again. But then there are cases like this, where the placement isn’t so much bad as it is strikingly offensive. In this post we share with you the worst... Continue reading
