Garfinkel Talks Classic Ads, Timeless Strategy - 05/17/2012... 
This week, we have three new ads that don't so much have a common theme as a common style: the voice over guy! 
Ben Day, is a 1996 black comedy by Dana Arnett. Ben is the ficticious creator behind Happy the Hamburger Helper Hand, Americas most beloved corporate icon. 
Take a look at the 10 of the greatest marketing and advertising campaigns of all time, and learn why they were successful. 
Maybe you already had a fascination with Saul Bass' celebrated movie title sequences Pitfall TV Commercial Featuring a young Jack Black! When Jimmy talks to the UNC audience about student loans, he decides a slow jam with President Obama and The Roots is appropriate. A taste of the Advertisements Gee, how times have changed, huh? And yet, that is definitely Willard Scott as Ronald.. Why don't you pick me up and smoke me sometime? Cigar a la Mae West. A classic animated spin on an old vaudeville act. Note: Poor Sound Quality. Alright everyone, I'm thinking of making another of these, so post your ideas on my channel. I'd prefer it on my channel cuz I have to search high and low th...
1932 Unemployed line up for food at Yonge St Mission, Toronto
"Free Breakfast for Men" |
Like the Beatles, Canadian piano virtuoso Glenn Gould gave up live performance in the mid-1960s and focused his creative energies on recording. 
Kodak may be going under, but apparently they could have started their own nuclear war if they wanted, just six years ago.
"Apparently, it was operated by atomic fairies and unicorns...." 
By JJ Sedelmaier "In a simpler time, when automobiles went slower and the pre-Eisenhower highway system in the United States was less developed, there was a popular advertising campaign that ran from 1927 until 1963. It consisted of rhymed messages sequentially staked on the right side of the road, all ending with the advertiser's name, "Burma-Shave.".... 
The use of "Tomorrow Never Knows" in Sunday's episode of "Mad Men" marks a rare instance in which a song written and recorded by the Beatles has been licensed for a television series, following several years of effort by the show's creator, Matthew... 
Not Everyone's Thrilled By MJ's Commercial Re-Run - 05/04/2012... by Thom Forbes
"Michael Jackson is hardly the first celebrity who has posthumously sung the praises of a brand but one wonders exactly what the folks at Pepsi are thinking in enlisting a dead man to endorse a product that has been perennially in pursuit of a new generation since 1963. Ad Age’s Natalie Zmuda broke the story about Pepsi’s deal with the late singer’s estate, which will coincide with the 25th anniversary of the release of the “Bad” album, more than a month ago but Pepsi made a formal announcement yesterday. That has media outlets from TMZ.com to the Wall Street Journal to Entertainment Weekly wagging about the implications. "It's like the dead is dancing to sell your product," Scott Lerman, CEO of Lucid Brands tells the Journal’s Mike Esterl and Suzanne Vranica...." Let a fireman show you how to make a fresh, easy Sauza margarita. 
"With the introduction of Superman in Action Comics #1 in 1938, the longer form of comic books sold in the millions of copies per issue but the artists themselves didn’t fair as well, earning only dollars per page. Following the congressional hearings on juvenile delinquency and comic books in 1954 the industry tightened, and many titles ceased. In the back of David Hajdu’s The Ten-Cent Plague hundreds of artists are listed who left comics never to return. The question at hand is: where did they go? Many, as it turns out headed to the more profitable field of advertising. Unlike comics, advertising offered heretofore-elusive benefits: better pay, stability, recognition, and health insurance. The agencies were willing to pay good money for work on national accounts and wanted the best artwork possible. Comic artists were used to working fast and sequential storyboard art for television commercials and illustration for ads and as comps for photo-shoots were a natural transition." Steven Brower
Read more and see illustrations by these Comic book artists who ventured into advertising: Marvin Stein, Lou Fine, Mort Meskin, Martin Nodell, Vic Herman, CC Beck, Jack Davis, Kelly Freas, Stan Drake, Shelly Moldoff, Wally Wood, 
We need to look back to the American Revolution to understand the reasons behind our postal system, and for inspiration for saving it today. "In the 18th century, the government committed itself to guaranteeing the free flow of information throughout the nation as part of a project to ensure mass participation in civic life, linking the Post Office with the protection of a free press. The decline in mail volume points to a certain inevitability about the commercial success of the USPS. But more broadly we must carefully consider the value of publicly owned, freely available channels of communication. Should the Post Office cease to exist, we will lose the last public guarantor of free communication in the United States." says Joseph Adelman interesting comments below article "Arguing that the Post Office is an important guarantor of free communication is a bit like arguing that gun ownership is an important bulwark against government tyranny. It was true many decades ago, but modern technology makes the argument irrelevant." atimoshenko Captain Midnight and the Secret Squadron. Classic fare from the 50's.
Training the kids to buy "the food drink for rocket power" Brylcreem relaunch 60 sec. commercial from 1986 that won D&AD. Is it possible that the Internet was created not by scientists or engineers, but by a stroke of genius owed to a brilliant mind? Could it have been the work of Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, the leading theoretician in the field of Ancient Astronaut Theory? Internet scientist Forest investigates. 
Wieden + Kennedy's Old Spice campaign offers an embarrassment of riches. Isaiah Mustafa filmed 186 videos in just three days in July 2010, as part of his personalized "responses" campaign, to go along with his many official commercials. |
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