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StoryYes, I just changed the entire sites look right under your nose dabitch421 weeks 1 day ago
What do logged in members (a.k.a adgrunts) get? dabitch021 weeks 1 day ago
CommercialsGillette - Techmatic adjustable -0:30 (USA) 1969 dabitch721 weeks 1 day ago
StoryTurning trackback off now. dabitch721 weeks 1 day ago
StoryAmex thinks you might like piracy and child pornography kidsleepy1621 weeks 1 day ago
StoryCarb Happy: Run Happy kidsleepy121 weeks 1 day ago
StoryDuracell knows how to target ads. kidsleepy421 weeks 1 day ago
StoryActress in Stricklyviral skit sues Belvedere vodka for using her image in that "rape ad" dabitch221 weeks 1 day ago
StoryPantone Swatch album covers, soon sported by Scroobious Pip. dabitch021 weeks 1 day ago
StoryWrong is the new right. Copying is the new left. dabitch721 weeks 1 day ago
StoryDear marketers, girls just wanna have fun, not pink. dabitch021 weeks 1 day ago
StoryAdLook: Lets judge women in advertising on how hot they look - not how hot their work is. dabitch521 weeks 1 day ago
StoryWhat do girls look at? Man dresses up with hidden cameras to find out. dabitch321 weeks 1 day ago
StoryGM backpedals when bike ad backfires dabitch421 weeks 1 day ago
StoryThe roast of Rick Boyko at the Friars Club during Advertising week 2011 dabitch021 weeks 1 day ago
StoryThe @BBHBarn starts #socialtattoo to make world crises causes more permanent dabitch021 weeks 1 day ago
StoryShredding the minister of education and culture - literally. dabitch021 weeks 1 day ago
StoryChip Chop winners pokes fun at Axe/Lynx with priests + most read this week dabitch621 weeks 1 day ago
StoryUrban outfitters carbon copy of Truche's United world of Love design dabitch221 weeks 1 day ago
StoryAd campaign declares Doomsday to be May 21st 2011 - one man spent his life savings funding it dabitch621 weeks 1 day ago
StoryFruit & Veg in Bikinis, summer fun visuals. dabitch021 weeks 1 day ago
StoryPSA Billboard "Speed kills" in Tomsk is crashed into by speeding car dabitch021 weeks 1 day ago
StoryAdscaptcha - stop spam & make money. Dept "wish I had thought of that" ideas. dabitch121 weeks 1 day ago
CommercialsSouthern Comfort - Patio / Whatever's Comfortable - (2012) :30 (USA) dabitch421 weeks 2 days ago
StoryJung von Matt explain the Lullaland screenshots: Art Director mistake. Okay.... dabitch321 weeks 2 days ago
  • dabitch said:
    Ooh, you know what he's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. ... Ooh, the anger dollar.
    Posted: 3 hours 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: 3 hours 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: 8 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: 11 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: 14 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 15 hours ago
  • dabitch said:
    Spam link removed because you can buy banner ads. Neener.
    Posted: 1 day 15 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 14 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 11 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 17 hours ago