If you are interested in getting your product or service on the Oprah Winfrey Show then you better get the card of Harriet Seitlerthe executive Vice President of Marketing and Programming development for Ms. Winfrey’s Harpo Communications. She has coordinated the product placements of last years Pontiac Giveaway contest and is leading the development of new forms of media opportunities beyond the scope of the syndicated day time talk show.
OK, so this innovation takes the cake. If Paris Hilton doesn’t float your boat, or you think Mel Gibson is a real stinker and George Bush’s policies are a little whiffy, then get a load of this. An ingenious lot down at Celebritybuttplugs.com have developed a range of sex toys with more than a passing similarity to America’s most talked about stars.
For only US $17.95, plus postage and handling, you too can have your choice of Parass Hilton, Smell Gibson or George Dubya Tush. But, of course, any resemblance, real or imagined, to the aforementioned celebrities is purely coincidental as the site claims - “these products are not intended to depict any specific celebrity” and “all the characters shown on this site are fictitious”.
In honor of December 19th, the World AIDs Day, a New York wedding gown was created to raise awareness. It is comprised of 12,500 condoms which were stiched and sewn together to honor the day.
Here’s one of those products that you tell yourself that could have came up with lickidty split. It’s a solution to dunking your cookies with your drinks without getting too many crumbs in the cup. The dunk mug has a compartment at the bottom to store your biscuits prior to dunking, so you can hold the mug in one hand and and retrieve one biscuit at a time ready for the dunk. The dunk mug is available from Firebox for £14.95.
Gap Designer Strategy Not Effective
Business Marketing December 7th, 2006The Gap clothing store may have a few problems this holiday season. After recently adopting a marketing tactic from Swedish rival Hennes & Mauritz the company is having trouble igniting holiday sales. The company’s CEO, Paul Pressler is struggling to get customers in the doors while sales have dropped 27 out of the past 30 months.
Most department and retail clothing stores are begining to use high end designers to boost traffic and sales this year such as Kohls and Target. The biggest problem for The Gap is not displaying and promoting the “Mouret” name in their display windows or print advertisements. All we were treated to were rapping lyricists and Audrey Hepburn dancing in slim black pants. “We have lost confidence in management’s ability to source the right product,” Todd Slater, an analyst at Lazard Capital Markets, wrote in a note to investors. He lowered Gap’s rating to “hold” from “buy” on Nov. 30.
I remember this Toys R Us commercial from the 1970s. They simply do not make high quality Christmas advertisements like they used to. Long gone are the original Christmas carols, animation, and soul of Christmas in todays advertisements. Moreover, what ever happened to Geoffrey the Giraffe in the Toys R Us Christmas commercials? I loved him!
In a twisted nod to that Draft/FCB Lion ad everyone took pleasure in shitting on, this Ogilvy Amsterdam-created ad for MTV takes the whole lion fucking thing even further incorporating other species and, in an excruciatingly long 60 seconds, tells people to wear condoms because “every six seconds somebody is infected with HIV.” Catchy tune though. Unfortunately, it’s gonna be stuck in our head the next time we decide to go all animal on someone.
Apparently our friends in Hollywood like to do their own cute little marketing. In the photo below are presented with Tori Spelling putting flyers up around Studio City, CA on Tuesday for a yard sale/garage sale with her new husband Dean McDemott (apparently another ‘actor’).
For some reason, this seems more of a really bad publicity stunt on the enviornment than an actual accident. “A cargo container that apparently fell from a ship washed up on the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Thursday and spilled thousands of bags of Doritos brand tortilla chips on the beach. People collected the chips, which were apparently still fresh due to their airtight packaging. It was unknown which ship had lost the cargo or to what port it was bound.”
A new patent pending 360 degree rotating and mobile video billboard can be seen deliverying 30 second moving video clips to thousands of New York, LA, Chicago, Boston, and San Francisco citizens. It can be attached to your cab, bus, or your car (if you want to). Some people are calling it “four-sided mobile audio visual advertising on wheels.” We like to call is just pure genius. Thousands upon thousands of onlookers wondering what the hell that techno-pizza-man-topper is doing on top of your car will help generate a little press for your product. It was built by Massachusetts based Al Terrain.
If you love sex then continue reading. This awareness campaign (thanks to Hout Loust for images) was developed to ‘talk about sex’. The first two ads below where made for schools and youth clubs, they are less explicit. The tirth and fourth ad where published in some magazines and newspapers and the last two where distributed at bar’s and gay and lesbianclubs.
In 2001 long before Brokeback Mountain became the real estate cowboys’ favorite “Welcome to Condom Country Campaign†print and outdoor ad is launched by ACT. It was the largest HIV/AIDS health promotion campaign in Canada.
“Undo” is the new campaign from Tobacco free California. Their new campaign seeks to rally Californians to support a tobacco-free world, and challenges us to question an industry which places profit above human life.
Created by Dutch Artist Helmut Smits, this “parking for white cars only” is probably aimed at targeting racial injustice. What do you think?
This new Viagra advertisement was received by AdRants in a spam email. It’s an email with a woman doing gymanstics on a man’s facile.
