Did you like Lemonade Movie? That's the one where 16 former ad professionals talk about how they left the business and found greatness elsewhere. Do you like going to ad conferences to hear smart people talk about the business? Then listen up.
Lemonade Movie Facebook Fan Page is giving away five free tickets to the PSKF Conference in New York City, April 9, 2010, where creatives will talk about culture, trends and the future of advertising. PSFK Conferences are attended by designers, digital creatives, entrepreneurs, journalists, planners, strategists and writers. Is that you? Do you want to go?
If you're interested, submit a video to the fan page. The top five videos with the most comments by 5pm on Tuesday, April 6th each win a ticket to the PSFK Conference.
If you';re a lucky winner, you'll get to hear Lemonade Movie creator Eric Proulx talk about opportunistic reinvention during a recession and how it doesn't have to be all bad.
On a boring drive, we once snapped some shots of billboards in the middle of nowhere and called the series Advertising in the Middle of Nowhere. You can see some of what we caught here, here and here.
Today, we have a new submission from somewhere in the middle of nowhere in New Hampshire. If you can spot some outdoor oddity in the middle of nowhere, feel free to send it in and we'll feature it here.
TruckAds, a company that, well, puts ads on the side of trucks recently received a letter from th City of Austin making the company aware of its prohibition of mobile billboards and the fact that, after June 16, it'll be a crime to place one on a vehicle and drive it around.
The prohibition has been in place since June 16, 2008 but June 16 of this year is the final date a mobile billboard can exist in the city. Needless to say, TruckAds isn't happy and is labeling the city's move a limitation of free speech.
We can see both points of view. Advertising, in most cases, should be afforded the same principles of free speech as described in the Constitution. Yes, we've mostly banned cigarette advertising and heavily regulated other forms. But outright bans are limited.
Yet, who really wants a landscape littered with advertising? Already New York and Las Vegas, among others, have become one giant advertisement. Do we want that everywhere?
And besides, Austin's weird. And they like to keep it weird. So this ban...well, it just seems normal for the city.
Thoughts?
Uh. Oh. Get ready for the onslaught of brands on Chatroulette. We just noted Travelocity's appearance on the random chat service which was followed by French Connection earlier in the month. Now we have Dr. Pepper getting into the game for April Fool's day. All we can say is...at least they got a hot cheerleader. Just don't watch all the way to the end. "She" gets much less hot.
In a nod to what's really happening on Chatroulette, one commenter wrote, "I wonder how many penises Dr. Pepper had to wade through to get this done."
If you think President Obama is "an illegal alien from Kenya who is hellbent on replacing every church in America with a mosque, ending capitalism, destroying freedom, and generally, pushing for the collapse of the country'" then you'll love Billboards Against Obama, an organization that allows you to create a custom message that can be submitted to appear on a billboard.
Want to see the world's worst parody? Actually, really, you don't. It will totally ruin your fond memories brought on by the wittyliciousness of Old Spice's I'm on a Horse. So please. Don't watch this horrific homage in which Dalla Maverisks' Caron Butler fails miserable at impersonating Isaiah Mustafa in the stupidest knock off you will ever see in your advertising life.
Oy. Sometimes it's just really hard to start work in the morning. Oh wait. It's the afternoon now. See what I mean? Anyway, no one cares about our work habits so let's talk about a new Old Spice commercial from Wieden + Kennedy for Odor Blocker Body Wash.
The commercial features another retired football player, Terry Crews who, most recently, played the Julius character in Everybody Hates Chris. There's three commercial in all. One, called Flex, has Crews in the shower doing a Mr. T routine to illustrate the odor blocking qualities of the product.
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Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic hooked up with a couple of scientists to create a perpetual motion machine that defies the laws of physics. Of course, that's not really what they set out to do but days later the "experiment" is still going.
The team put together a bunch of tennis racket stands and tennis balls hung from the ceiling. Djokovic then took the first shot kicking of the experiment. Apparently the rackets and balls are still in motion and you can view them in action here.
- Speeding tickets suck. Here's a fun way to re-imagine the whole thing into a game that can make you money.
- Macy's recruits Martha Stewart to give fashion tips to a bunch of slobs.
- Bojangle's Restaurant has selected Boone Oakley as its new agency of record.
- Sony tours the world in 80 seconds.
You have to wonder if any of these ads are even real. They all look that same. Large image with a tiny logo and no copy. They all end up on Ads of the World. They all have proper credits. Of course, it couls just be that everyone in the world except us Americans realize no one give s s hit about copy ans all they can handle is an image that tells the story.
Oh wait. That's the entire point. With so many different spoken languages over seas, it makes perfect sense to go with the simple, language-agnostic approach. But of course you knew that all along, right?
Anyway, here we have lurking vegetables waiting to pounce on any form of hotness that pesents itself. All to promote something called a "sexual efficiency ring." See all the ads here.
Hmm. Where's the cause group on this one. Those women look positively terrified
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