Posts Tagged ‘advertising’
Is that a young Lindsay Lohan advertising the perils of poo eating for Bristol Council?
CAN a child’s work ruin the adult’s career?
Dennis Waterman did not let a boyhood advertising Rowntree’s Fruit Gums hold him back from a successful TV career. Little Dennis sang:
Don’t forget my fruit gums, Mum,
I just love those fruit gums, Mum,
Thruppence buys a tube of fruit gums,
Gums that last all day.
Bring me home some fruit gums, Mum,
All my pals love fruit gums, Mum,
Rowntree’s fruit gums last the longest,
That’s why we all say:
They’re smashing! They’re Rowntree’s!
The young Dakota Fanning shilled for Tide, dribbling food down her pink dress. She too would go on to achieve showbiz fame.
A past promoting the GAF Viewmaster did Jodie Foster no harm. She went on to become an A-list Hollywood stalwart.
So there is hope, then, for the child seen eating dog poo in the above advert created for Bristol Council. We could be looking at the next Lindsay Lohan…
Posted: 24th, June 2013 | In: Celebrities, The Consumer | Comment (1)
States United to Prevent Gun Violence produce this great anti-gun advert
IS this the greatest anti-gun advert? States United to Prevent Gun Violence has message:
GUNS HAVE CHANGED.
SHOULDN’T OUR GUN LAWS?
That’s a great slogan and advert, isn’t it?
Posted: 1st, May 2013 | In: Reviews, TV & Radio | Comment
In the 1950s Heinz thought clowns would make pickles fun – they didn’t (photos)
IN the 1950s, Heinz looked at pickles and wondered what went with them? The answer was simple: clowns. Middle-aged men in small hats and lots of make-up would make tummies rumble for jarred pickles. Look out for the clown with a face so stitched in the upwards grin that when eyeing his puke-encrusted sausage, he still smiles broadly. Unless he is, like Bom Bom, actually turned on by such things. But, then, Bom Bom’s a wanted man who only took to clowning because he had a tube of congealed pig’s blood, chronic anaemia and a chronic need for an alibi:
Posted: 9th, February 2013 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
Vintage ads: The Milky Way in 1930
IT’S 1930 and the Milky Way boys are excited by “barely crumbling” bars of stuff:
Posted: 3rd, January 2013 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
Retro advert: ‘Introduce Me to 10 Ladies And I Pay You Cash’
RETRO advert of the day: “Famous genius” C.W. Van Der Mark – has an offer: “Introduce Me to 10 Ladies and I Pay You Cash For Your Time.”
Seems legit.
Posted: 18th, December 2012 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
Truth in advertising: the Michigan miracle
WOW! Riverside Nursing and Rehabilitation Community in Grand Haven, Michigan, works wonders! Or Riversdie, as the advert has it…
Posted: 14th, December 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
Bad Ads: Sexual violence and Advertising don’t mix
BAD Ads – Sexual violence and Advertising don’t mix.
Sir Richard Branson described the recently withdrawn Virgin Mobile USA ad – which made a joke of rape – as “ill-judged” and “a dreadful mistake”.
“Although I don’t own the company, it carries our brand,” he said. “I will speak to the team there, make my thoughts clear and see what can be done about it.”
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Posted: 11th, December 2012 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment (1)
The worst underwear advert ever
IS this the world’s worst ever advert for underwear:
Posted: 4th, December 2012 | In: Fashion, Key Posts | Comment (1)
Awful food: famous Chili Spaghetti
NO exactly Ronseal: the d’lish bowl of Skyline chili Spaghetti:
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Posted: 9th, November 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
Vintage advert: 300 ‘pretty girls’ for one dollar
VINTAGE advert of the day. Back in the day you could buy 300 “pretty girls” for $1. A combination of cheap females and a strong dollar made it all possible. For just 100 cents, Zen Publishers of Elkhart, Indiana, would give you the names and addresses of 300 “pretty, single lonely nurses, teachers, models, widows , farmerettes etc.” Sure, some of these game gals will have moved on by the time you get the list. Sure some of them might have died, changed their names or become men. But with luck on your side and a following wind you’ll be able to travel hundreds of miles across the country and stalk a real life woman…
Posted: 3rd, November 2012 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
Anti-pregnancy poster from 1970
FLASHBACK to MArch 1970: The pregnant man poster was issued by the Health Education Council. Such posters were distributed in their thousands to persuade men to seek advice on contraception. Dr Bill Jones, Director General of the Health Education Council said: “We want to make any ignorant or unthinking man stop and consider the suffering and problems he can cause through an unplanned pregnancy.”
Great ads: Mercedes radar-based technology
ADVERTISING cars is tricky. I once worked as a copywriter on a Mercedes campaign. The brief escaped me. It was just a car. They are all the same. Ford proves the point. But theses adverts for Mercedes’ radar-based technology are brilliant.
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Posted: 26th, October 2012 | In: Technology | Comment
What is this very long advert for?
HOW long does it take you find out what his advert is for? For thsoe of you who can’t be bothered to watch the entire thing, the answer is below:
Ford cars.
Posted: 26th, October 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Men’s fashion advertising – when Slax got the girl
BACK in the day, men’s fashion was all about wearing trousers (Anorak’s own-brand Comfi-Slax sold well) and chunky knits. Like any straight man I too poured myself into Broomsticks slacks and hoped to meet a women who was as subservient and drooling as the family pet:
Posted: 21st, October 2012 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
Ireland’s Go Conquer advert features a dildo necklace
ADVERT of the day: Tess Purcell tweets on Go Conquer, Ireland mobile network:
Is it just me or is this girl wearing a dildo around her neck?
It’s not just you. One day all the cool kids will be doing it…
Posted: 19th, October 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Saatchi & Saatchi for Club 18-30: the ads
FLASHBACK to 2001. Saatchi & Saatchi are working for Club 18-30:
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Posted: 17th, October 2012 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comments (2)
Bad Ad: Adam And Eve Hair Replacement Centre, Scarsdale, New York
BAD Ad Watch: Adam And Eve Hair Replacement Centre, Scarsdale, New York. He has a secret. Want to know what it is? Yep, he has hired her…
Posted: 1st, October 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The best of the New York Bubble Project – making adverts better
THE Bubble Project lets anyone with pen add their thoughts to speech bubbles stuck onto pubic adverts. Ji Lee printed 50,000 stickers, slapped them up and wttied. He then took photographs of the added words:
Posted: 19th, September 2012 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment
Paralympics ad agency mocks people on benefits
IRIS, the advertising agency the brought the world 2012 Olympic and Paralympics mascots Wenlock and Mandeville, have published their internal staff benefits booklet. This is the organ that explains what the staff are entitled to. The people in the photos all have jobs at the firm, blessed as they (it says here) with “cutting edge insight”.
The ad suggests people on benefits are all feckless scumbags. Wonder what some of the Paralympians make of that..?
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Posted: 6th, September 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Final Draft advert fail: When inspiration goes on strike
BUDDING and working scriptwriters use Final Draft. you can now get the Final Draft app for iPad – “the perfect solution for screenwriters and filmmakers who want to write, read and edit scripts.”
Bill Oakley spots the advert:
@thatbilloakley: “This is an ad for the industry-standard screenwriting software depicting their idea of someone writing a screenplay
Inspiration strikes:
Posted: 30th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Bad ad watch: Killer shopping deals
BAD ad watch: Killer Shopping deals:
Posted: 22nd, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Cool ad watch: Slim Chance for Surplus Sales
GREAT ad of the day features entertainer Slim Chance advertising the value of shopping at Surplus Sales in Hudson, Florida:
The store front is inviting:
Spotter: reddit
Posted: 9th, August 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
1950s boys advertise underwear for an appreciative man
AS Old Mr Anorak knows, you can always trust man who tucks his vest into his Y-fronts. The young lads in this 1950s advert are on-message. The man on the left, however, is most likely wearing a bikini briefs and knee socks…
Posted: 29th, July 2012 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
