In Australia, the September issue of Cosmopolitan, ever the leader in the "how to keep you man happy" category, was yanked from a Woolworths magazine rack over complaints regarding a tagline that read, "Oral sex lessons: Blow-by-blow tips for you and for him." It was too much for some who complained to store management. Talks between store management and publisher Australian Consolidated Press and it was agreed the magazine would go back on sale but with a sticker covering the offending language. Men across the country were distraught over the prospect of their girlfriend/wife/hooker's inability to provide a proper hummer. Thanks again to Charley Brough.
Kerry McCoy over at Bannerisms and President of FlagAndBanner posted a picture she found at FunnySign of this very intresting billboard and thought we'd like it over here as Adrants. Well, Kerry, we sure do and thanks for thinking of us and our sick, twisted advertising mind. One wonders what the billboard hangers where thinking when they hung this one or what the model thought if and when she ever saw it. Bigger image here.
Pardon this selfless plug for business but I thought that since all of you work in advertising and marketing, you and your clients might want to know that advertising on weblogs, including Adrants, works. To date, there have been several advertisers here on Adrants, all of whom have been pleased with their results and a few have renewed. Aside from that, weblogs provide a new and different audience.
There's a good overview of the general weblog audience here. And you'll be delighted to know it's not all highschool girls but professionals just like you and me. So if you have products you need to market to those who work in marketing and advertising and want to explore sites beyond Ad Age, AdWeek and others, check out the advertising section of Adrants or contact me and I'd be happy to talk to you about how Adrants, and weblogs in general, can give your media plan a boost.
The next time you are writing copy trying to clearly explain your brand's message, take a look at this video and think twice before you write what you were going to write. This is especially important for copywriters working in the high tech industry where ads are rife with words that mean and say nothing. While this Rockwell Electric Retro-Incabulator video is certainly a spoof of some very old industrial videos, as explained by Paul Murray on boingboing, it sends a powerful message. You might know what you're talking about but the consumer sure doesn't. Think twice. Write once. Thanks to Rick Bruner for pointing this out.
European and Russian Elle Magazine and computer company HP have teamed to offer a promotion whereby readers of Elle can superimpose their image on the magazine's cover using HP's digital photo softeware and enter them in a compatition to win a weekend trip to London.
As if there weren't enough problems in Athens already (giant ads draped over historic monuments, attendees banned for possessing non-sponsor items), the Olympic Mascots, Athena and Phevos, two duck-like creatures, have been derided as animated condoms and Bob Costas has referred to them as "a genetic experiment gone horribly, ghastly wrong." Oops, that's not right. He was referring to "Izzy," the 1996 Atlanta Games mascot. My bad. Thanks to Craig in Comments for pointing that out.
Chosen from 200 entries and described as sister and brother "full of vitality and creativity, perhaps mischievous and hence lovable," the pair has been referred to as mutants from a nuclear meltdown. They seem harmless enough but do we really need an Olympic mascot? We've already got those cool interlocked rings.
The NFL isn't taking any chances this year with the entertainment during the Super Bowl or during its NFL Opening Kick Off. While all female performers won't be required to wear padlocks on their bras, all artists will be required to adhere to new contractual language that makes the artist, their management and record label solely responsible for their actions. MTV is out as producer and White Cherry, who has produced the Tony Awards is in.
The NFL Opening Kick Off will be held at the Patriots' Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, MA this year and will feature Mary J. Blige, Destiny's Child, Elton John, Toby Keith, Lenny Kravitz and Jessica Simpson.
In the clearest example the advertising industry has gone insane, Athens Olympic "clean venue" guidelines are said to warn against attendees wearing or consuming any brand that is not a sponsor of the event. In what certainly has to be either a joke or the manifestation of a marketing team gone mad, any attendee found with or trying to enter with a non-sponsor brand will be asked to leave or barred from entry. Has our business gone absolutely mad?
Yea, yea, the sponsors are all paying big bucks and they don't want another brand ambushing their sponsorships but this is positively ridiculous. Maybe they should strip search women, removing non-sponsor brand panties, out of fear the tag might be seen when they bend over and are gawked at by male spectators. Insane. Thanks to Charley Brough for pointing out this idiocy.
We've all gone through that ridiculous routine of making a wish before blowing out the candle's on our birthday cake only to have it never come true. This girl's does. Carvel ain't running this spot.
From TheSpecSpot comes this ad you won't see on TV but can view right here. We all love our beer but sometimes we just get a bit overexcited about it. This man's wife has dealt with the problem.
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