TypePostAuthorRepliesLast updated
CommercialsDiet Coke - Music That Moves / Taylor Swift - (2013) :30 (USA) dabitch09 weeks 5 days ago
StoryBuzzfeed, like Google, is the ad agency of the future. But shareability != sales. dabitch19 weeks 5 days ago
CommercialsApple - Think Different / Here's to the crazy ones (1997) :60 USA dabitch09 weeks 5 days ago
Print, billboards, press ads, ambientZierholz Premium Brewery -Search in Customs / Baby / Terrorists - print dabitch09 weeks 6 days ago
CommercialsStockholm City Mission - You'll never wear that again - case study dabitch19 weeks 6 days ago
CommercialsTango - Apple seduction / Call at office - (1994) :30 (UK) dabitch09 weeks 6 days ago
CommercialsDiet Tango - Grilled Cheese / You need it because you're weak - (1995) :30 (UK) dabitch09 weeks 6 days ago
CommercialsApple Tango - Home with the flu / Dressing in scuba gear - (1995) :30 (UK) dabitch09 weeks 6 days ago
CommercialsAlka Seltzer - Prison Lunch / Chant - (1970) :30 (USA) dabitch09 weeks 6 days ago
CommercialsAlka Seltzer - Mama Mia, that's a spicy meatball - (1969) :30 (USA) dabitch09 weeks 6 days ago
StoryMama Mia that's a ballsy rip-off ... dabitch139 weeks 6 days ago
CommercialsInside Brus - Sillen från Tjörn / The herring - (2003) :30 (Sweden) dabitch09 weeks 6 days ago
Story"Ads and their keepers" in Brand Equity, India dabitch09 weeks 6 days ago
StoryDid Nike say that? dabitch110 weeks 3 hours ago
Print, billboards, press ads, ambientLabour isn't working - billboard 1978 dabitch310 weeks 4 hours ago
Print, billboards, press ads, ambientGioni's Revenge - Condiments spanking women / Ketchup spanking - (2013) print (Italy) dabitch210 weeks 6 hours ago
CommercialsSubaru - Cut the Cord - (2013) :30 (USA) dabitch010 weeks 6 hours ago
StoryDDB needs people - You have six seconds to sell yourself on Vine dabitch910 weeks 7 hours ago
CommercialsOld Spice - Watermelon - (2012) :15 (USA) dabitch010 weeks 8 hours ago
StoryCreator of Kia pedophilia ad is the same as creator of WWF 9/11 ad dabitch2210 weeks 17 hours ago
Print, billboards, press ads, ambientXbox 360 Crashes French PS3 Launch party in Paris dabitch010 weeks 18 hours ago
Print, billboards, press ads, ambientAmnesty International Amsterdam says: "Do not frighten President Putin with protests" dabitch010 weeks 1 day ago
Story"Scam ads" hurt both brands and ad agencies says Wheaton - Exactly. dabitch010 weeks 1 day ago
CommercialsOld Spice Soap - Shower - (2013) :30 (USA) dabitch110 weeks 1 day ago
StoryThe Saturday Evening post reprints Mad Men era ads from their magazine. dabitch210 weeks 1 day ago
  • dabitch said:
    Ooh, you know what he's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. ... Ooh, the anger dollar.
    Posted: 1 hour 2 min ago
  • dabitch said:
    The ASCII doesn't work quite as well around here, but points for effort. Might get better monospaced font if you use the CODE tag.
    Posted: 1 hour 21 min ago
  • dabitch said:
    What a terrifically unexpected comment. I can see you went straight to insulting me instead of taking apart my argument. What's the matter, too weak to type anything longer than that?
    Posted: 6 hours 22 min ago
  • dabitch said:
    Ha! While I'm sure that was the rationale - that they could aim for both - it's missing a key insight. Women buy romance novels, text, while men buy visual porn (gay or straight). You can't actually aim at both with one image. Going for the pink pound is perfectly fine, and in fact very wise if that's their biggest paying target, but in the case of middle-American salad dressing, I doubt it is.
    Posted: 9 hours 48 min ago
  • dabitch said:
    Coke is a great example of two wrongs don't make a right. I've hated that giggling office-worker-gals idea since it first appeared in the late 80s. Seriously, who the fuck does that? In fact, that's when I stopped drinking Diet Coke. Not that they care. The Diet Coke puppets on the other hand, oh la la! They're hilarious. and Jean-Paul, gay icon & fashion king, made a straighter ad. Go figure. It's not like they're without plenty of sexual innuendo, either. You bring up a good point, there isn't much of a reason for the spokesperson to be totally nude under a picnic blanket. This is exactly the type of ad that is banned by European advertising watchdogs, and I can't help but think this is what they're hoping for (a ban gets more earned media)
    Posted: 12 hours 54 min ago
  • dabitch said:
    Nobody on this website would say that only women are depicted in a sexist manner in advertising. In fact, I say sexist ads are bad for everyone. Tom Ford is an equal opportunity offender, with full frontal nude Sophie Dahl, full frontal shaved labia behind perfume bottles on his resumé. So yes, he did do that "just a vagina selling perfume" idea you have, and I immediately thought "it must smell like pee". Tom Ford has most likely inspired the gang rape images D&G used. The latter a tad more violent than simple nudity, with both hetrosexual and homosexual seemingly forced encounters and/or porn-sets. p.s. I'm a woman not blind to double standards, add that to your anecdata-pipe and smoke it.
    Posted: 1 day 13 hours ago
  • dabitch said:
    Spam link removed because you can buy banner ads. Neener.
    Posted: 1 day 13 hours ago
  • dabitch said:
    :D Yeah, it's not working on me (not tempted to pick up an e-cig but then I quite the habit proper and am supposedly not the target anyway since I am a quitter)... But I can see how this could work. e-Cigs are put on the map, no longer that odd device someone bought in Hong Kong ten years ago, but I actually see people using these in bars. This just might put Blu on the map. E-Cigs are going to be a thing.
    Posted: 3 days 12 hours ago
  • dabitch said:
    I asked him when I met him in Cannes a year later, and he said no; it's a reminder of an awesome week in his life. Even if it's not that pretty.
    Posted: 4 days 9 hours ago
  • dabitch said:
    Right, so him & his friend pitched Blu. If Stephen Dorf came up with the line "rise from the ashes"... well, that's not a bad line.
    Posted: 4 days 15 hours ago