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Mr T reduced to Informercials

Posted: January 2nd, 2009, 2:14pm CST by SeriouslyOMGWTF

Tags: Ads

via Loaded Blog
I wonder when Mr T signed on for Flavor Wave Oven he thought he was going to be as successful as George Foreman was with his grill?
I guess you can say that now the fool I pity is Mr T.
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Classic GM Ads: When Times Were Not So Terrible [Classic Ads]

Posted: November 29th, 2008, 11:00am CST by Hamilton Nolan

Tags: classic Ads

Poor General Motors Corp may not be around forever if certain auto dealers on a bus ride cannot persuade the federal government to give the failing company $25 billion. Sad! Remember when GM cars ruled the roads, America ruled the world, and men were men? Those were the days. We've collected a gallery of ten classic GM ads from the good old days of the 1930s, to remind you of what once was, and what shall never be again. Weep for your autos:

[via Gallery of Graphic Design]
Money-Grubbing New York Senator Invades Kentucky, Builds Museum For Hippies [Attack Ads]

Posted: October 21st, 2008, 5:01pm CDT by Pareene

Tags: Attack Ads

Hey, is this Mitch McConnell campaign ad a little odd, or is it just us? Mitch is a Senator running for reelection. Schumer is a Senator too. So far, so good. But the thing is, McConnell is running in Kentucky, and Schumer is not running in Kentucky. So it's just weird that McConnell's ad would be all about how this NEW YORK Senator is spending all this MONEY on building museums for hippies, and illegal immigrants, and also presumably shining his diamond collection. Also the voice over guy... his accent is a bit... ethnic. Just what is Mitch McConnell trying to suggest, exactly? Can anyone enlighten us??? Full ad after the jump.

[Via Radar]
Obama Ad: You Are Too George W. Bush [Ads]

Posted: October 16th, 2008, 12:58pm CDT by Pareene

Tags: Ads

Gee, it's almost like Barack Obama's campaign predicted McCain would distance himself from President Bush at last night's debate! How else could they have put together this clever ad refuting McCain's crazy claim that he's not George W. Bush? More importantly: they highlighted all the mugging and blinking because that's the important message here. They're very good, right? [via Radosh]
The Best Of Cigarette Pseudoscience [Classic Ads]

Posted: October 7th, 2008, 11:08am CDT by Hamilton Nolan

Tags: classic Ads

Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a class action case accusing the tobacco industry of fraud for its marketing campaign aimed at convincing the public that "light" cigarettes are safer. This just shows you how far we've come: 50 years ago, we would have had to call the Supreme Court to determine which brand has the smoothest flavor for your T-Zone"! Coincidentally, the New York Public Library is now holding a huge exhibition of hi-larious old cigarette ads. With doctors! Babies! Blackface! And other outrages! In honor of our nation's justice system, the 15 best are below:

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How to get guys to get insurance!

Posted: October 5th, 2008, 5:52pm CDT by SeriouslyOMGWTF

Tags: Ads

Seriously how brilliant is that short movie to sell insurance? How many you guys wished you lived over in The UK so you could get Trident Insurance and the Trident girls?
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Johnny Rotten is like butter

Posted: October 1st, 2008, 5:49pm CDT by SeriouslyOMGWTF

Tags: Ads

I had heard a few weeks ago that Johnny Lydon aka Johnny Rotten was doing for an ad for Country Life Butter and let me tell the commercial is better and cheesier than I ever thought it could be. But I wonder what has happened to the state of Punk music that he is actually doing ads like that.
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McCain Cancerous Say Dirty New Smear Ads [Attack Ads]

Posted: September 25th, 2008, 12:33pm CDT by Pareene

Tags: Attack Ads

Some shadowy nonprofit is running ads accusing John McCain of having cancer. Which is true and actually maybe relevant (the fact that John McCain will be America's oldest president ever is certainly more relevant than Obama's house party with Mr. Ayers). The groups behind the ads are apparently run by nutty lefty filmmaker Robert Greenwald and Howard Dean's brother, and the ads feature doctors (with stethoscopes and stuff) saying that cancer is really bad and might kill John McCain. As an underhanded dirty smear, it at least has the advantage of being, you know, 100% demonstrably true! But still. The ads fail, miserably, by not pointing out explicitly that should McCain die in office, he'd be replaced by Sarah Palin. That is the scary thing here! No one would care if old man McCain died and was replaced by someone with half a fucking brain. Anyway, controversy!!
NRA Ad: Shoot Obama Before He Steals Your Guns [Attack Ads]

Posted: September 22nd, 2008, 12:17pm CDT by Pareene

Tags: Attack Ads

newVideoPlayer("/banned.flv", 506, 423,""); This ridiculous gun-owning man whose voice sounds like Keith Olbermann's crappy Bill O'Reilly impression, is concerned that Obama will tax his guns and ammo, which has something to do with gas prices. Obama voted to ban deer-hunting ammunition! "Where is this guy from?" gun guy asks, in what is the single least subtle attempt to paint Obama as a Muslim foreigner ever. (Where is he from? Canada? Saudi Arabia?? San Francisco??) This is a real-life NRA ad that will run in Colorado and New Mexico. Our favorite part is the Dick Cheney-looking guy loading up a rifle as a fat kid stares at him. Enjoy your precious freedoms, assholes!
The New Goldman Sachs [Fake Ads]

Posted: September 22nd, 2008, 9:43am CDT by Hamilton Nolan

Tags: Fake Ads

newVideoPlayer("/laundry.flv", 506, 423,""); Goldman Sachs has never had to depend on TV advertising. It's far too populist a medium for the king of investment banks. But now that Wall Street is dead, Goldman may have to actually go after the public at large. So Gawker video maven Richard Blakeley and his comedic pal Fritz Donnelly made up this ad prototype that Goldman will likely want to steal. Pay attention, fancy financiers: this is how you sell to real people. Click to watch the future of American economic messaging.
The Saddest Video In the World [Attack Ads]

Posted: September 15th, 2008, 3:49pm CDT by Pareene

Tags: Attack Ads

The Museum of the Moving Image recently launched what is basically our new favorite website: "The Living Room Candidate," a repository of (embeddable!) presidential campaign ads spanning Stevenson v Eisenhower through Obama v McCain. So, so much fun for political and advertising junkies. Also it is the history of how the United States of America killed itself. This ad will make you cry. It's Michael Dukakis responding to unfair attacks from George H. W. Bush. It's also every loser Democrat since Humphrey. Click through to watch.

[Via Radosh]
Washington Mutual Will Do Anything For Your Business [Fake Ads]

Posted: September 15th, 2008, 1:56pm CDT by Hamilton Nolan

Tags: Fake Ads

newVideoPlayer("/Maher_Wamu.flv", 506, 423,""); Pope-hating straight talker Bill Maher is seriously considering putting some money in failing Washington Mutual now that they're offering free blow jobs with every account. Click to watch the sadly plausible series of fake ads that get worse and worse until we're all broke and can't afford a blow job anyhow.
Democrats Have Lost The Nuclear Ad Race [Political Ads]

Posted: September 12th, 2008, 2:44pm CDT by Hamilton Nolan

Tags: Political Ads

Simplicity—which often involves leaving things unsaid—is a rare tactic in advertising today. We want every bell and whistle listed and explained for us completely and quickly so we can get back to playing Wii! Political ads are no exception. Here's Barack Obama's newest ad attacking McCain; it takes the trouble to spell out, on screen, the same things the announcer is saying, because Americans have lost our ability for inference along with our attention spans. It lacks three crucial things that the classic 1964 LBJ ad, titled "Merely Another Weapon" (after the jump) has: One clear message; a trust that viewers will understand that message themselves; and awesome atom bomb blasts:

[LBJ ad via The Living Room Candidate]
"Men grow neglectful when wives grow careless" [Classic Ads]

Posted: September 11th, 2008, 3:15pm CDT by Hamilton Nolan

Tags: classic Ads

There's an episode of Mad Men (I told you I must relentlessly mine this show to catch up with every other ad writer) in which Sterling Cooper has to come up with an ad campaign for a stimulating "weight loss" machine that actually owes its popularity with women to the fact that it's an undercover vibrator. Cue the euphemisms: "Rejuvenator," "youthful glow," etc. Today, of course, euphemism is dead. The agency would sell the product with "Turn it on and cum!" So it makes us wistful to look back on how they sold embarrassing things in the good old days. (With sexism!). After the jump, classic ads that gently persuaded your grandparents to choose the right brand when they were feeling... not so fresh:

[via the Gallery of Graphic Design]
Bizarre Ad People Need Drugs [Classic Ads]

Posted: September 9th, 2008, 1:06pm CDT by Hamilton Nolan

Tags: classic Ads

The olden days were full of free-flowing psychoactive drugs, grotesque torture machines for the advancement of human beauty, and creepy children intent on eating anything in their path, judging by the advertising way back when. From a longer list at Weirdomatic, we give you seven classic ads to make you glad you live in our modern age, when Ritalin has replace Nembutal as our drug of choice for small children:

[Weirdomatic via VSL]
Busty Teen Finds Stepdad's Mullet Irresistible [Bad Ads]

Posted: September 8th, 2008, 3:07pm CDT by Hamilton Nolan

Tags: bad Ads

It may well be within the realm of human achievement to make an ad for Hair Club For Men that does not cause an involuntary shudder of revulsion. But this is not that ad. This is an ad where a bald man goes to Hair Club to grow a curly mullet, and is then fawned over by his own comely "stepdaughter." "Is that your stepdad...oh my gosh, he's not too bad looking!" Christ, why, why? All the disturbing subtext you can fit in one minute:

Strange Hair Club Testimonial from a Stepdaughter
by InfomercialReviewer
[via Adfreak]
Denied! Anon AA Ad Artist Slams Faux-Bam Culture Jam [Fake Fake Ads]

Posted: August 28th, 2008, 11:50am CDT by Hamilton Nolan

Tags: Fake Ads

So yesterday we posted what seemed to be a new work by the anonymous American Apparel ad spoofer—this one featuring Obama being menaced by a big dick, with the familiar slogan "The Assassination of Barack Obama" and an American Apparel logo. Then we heard that it might not be a work by the actual spoofer, which was confirmed by the spoofer's own blog, then confirmed again by Copyranter, who thinks the Obama piece is a Photoshop fake. Now the spoofer himself has sent us a statement, of sorts, saying he welcomes copycats as long as it's clear they're different copycats (and he's not a Dov Charney employee, thank you):

Hi Hamilton,

I am the "aa ads spoofer."

I am not the creator of the Obama poster you posted yesterday, and don't deserve the little fame it temporarily got. I never mix art and politics, the billboards in Tribeca have never inspired me, and I don't do use the Photoshop posterization filter. I gladly welcome copycats though, as long as people don't think it's my doing.

Also, to answer a floating question, my fake AA campaign is a personal project. American Apparel isn't behind this campaign, I don't work for them, I don't know them, and all I ever got from them is a pleasant mute tolerance...

I picked up AA essentially because their ads were sex-oriented, which was a good place to start. This work is about inspiration in art and advertising, and manipulation, if I get it right...

i'll be wrapping up the project in sept w/ a little showdown on stereohell.

[Disclaimer: To the extent we were able to check around, we're pretty sure this is the real spoofer. Although you never really know when it comes to spoofers.]
The Obama Attack Ad That Doesn't Need the MSM [Attack Ads]

Posted: August 26th, 2008, 11:35am CDT by Pareene

Tags: Attack Ads

newVideoPlayer("/Obama_weather_underground_5.flv", 506, 423,""); Bill Ayers was a founding member of the Weather Underground, a patently ridiculous white radical organization that specialized in being dumb hippies. They liked to blow up symbolic things like statues. Once they put a bomb in the Pentagon! No one was hurt except for some files. Anyway. This was years ago and since then, Bill has become so goddamn respectable that Mayor Richard Daley tapped him to head a "public-private partnership" dedicated to improving Chicago public schools. Barack Obama was on the board of a philanthropic foundation with Bill in 1999 which means, according to this fantastic attack ad, that Barack Obama wanted to blow up the Pentagon just like the terrorists of 9/11. Except worse! Ha ha this ad is ridiculous and you won't see it on TV because no one will air it, except for an obscure little company that owns local stations covering a quarter of the country. (And us. And we cover the world! Except for China probably.)

A McCain fundraiser named Harold Simmons funded the ad through one of those shadowy nonprofits the kids are so into these days called the "American Issues Project." Simmons was, you may be shocked to learn, also a Swift Boat Veterans for Truth funder. This particular ad is so distorted that CNN and even Fox News have refused to run it! Which leaves, of course, the local channels owned by Sinclair Communications.

The Sinclair Broadcast Group owns the largest number of local TV stations in the country, mostly throughout the South and Midwest. They last made headlines in 2004, when the company refused to allow its stations to air the Nightline segment that named American casualties in Iraq (they hate the troops!), and then six months later when they made all their stations broadcast a crazy Swift Boat documentary about how John Kerry committed treason in Vietnam. Oh, and then they were the ones behind the Armstrong Williams debacle, in which Williams was revealed to be a White House-paid propagandist while hosting a syndicated show as an ostensibly independent commentator. The show was produced out of Sinclair's "New Central" office, which produced much of the insane "news" content Sinclair feeds to its many stations. (Sinclair received a $36,000 FCC fine for their trouble.)

But besides a GQ story on Sinclair back in '05, no one really pays any attention to the work of Sinclair. They reach nearly as many homes as an actual television network and purposefully exert more control over the message they broadcast than any 24-hour news network, but because they own podunk affiliates in flyover country, no one notices. Per Wikipedia:

Sinclair still produces a one-minute national news briefing for its stations, entitled Washington Newsroom. Starting in 2007, Sinclair launched a new newscast on some of its' stations, completely separate from local news operations, called American Crossroads. Like News Central and "The Point", the program, hosted by Jeff Barnd (a news anchor at WBFF) covers national news stories and offers a conservative editorial segment.

Oh, and the co-owner who controls the in-house produced conservative "news" that each of their stations are forced to play is also a war profiteer and a convicted whoremonger.

SO! Harold Simmons does not actually need the reasoned and wise gatekeepers of the real national media, or even the nutty-but-mainstream gatekeepers of the conservative national media. Because he can reach nearly a quarter of America at home, on their local channels, across Ohio, Florida, Missouri, and other small-market towns in swing states. For cheap!

Of course, unlike Kerry, Obama's fighting back hard against this smear. His campaign sent strongly worded letters to all the stations that played the ad, featuring veiled threats against their broadcast licenses in the event of an Obama presidency ("Your station is committed to operating in the public interest, an objective that cannot be satisfied by accepting for compensation material of such malicious falsity.")

And, of course, in going after these ads, he's getting them more play from those respected gatekeepers, who will now play them all the time to tsk-tsk about how terrible it all is.
The Rich History of Negative Campaign Ads [Attack Ads]

Posted: August 21st, 2008, 1:25pm CDT by Pareene

Tags: Attack Ads

newVideoPlayer("/Negative_Ads_1.flv", 506, 423,"");Congratulations to Barack Obama for finally running a no-holds-barred attack ad against John McCain. It's a masterpiece of the genre (the "more in sorrow than in fearmongering" attack), taking one odd biographical detail as proof of mendacity, with a touch of underhanded smear thrown in. You are poor and broke and the bank is taking away your house, but John McCain? He is so old he doesn't remember how many houses he has! (Narrator: "It's seven. Seven houses.") It's a fun little number. But as you watch our above compilation of some of our favorite attack ads of the last forty-odd years, well, you may notice that no modern candidate can touch the '60s for mean-spirited spite. LBJ will cut you to win reelection. Click to see the compilation, and Obama's modern attempt at the genre is below.

In McCain's defense, we'd have six more houses too if our first one was this garish. (And OMG that sweater!)

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How I like my men to look when they were their Calvins!

Posted: August 20th, 2008, 10:30am CDT by SeriouslyOMGWTF

Tags: Ads

Garrett Neff is the body, I mean face of Calvin Klein and he looks amazing in his new job. He is doing a good job so far because I am a girl and even he has me running to the store to buy that underwear.
Calvin Klein made a good choice hiring him!!! Now go give him more stuff to model, please!
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I want a Tiddy Bear!

Posted: August 15th, 2008, 3:12pm CDT by SeriouslyOMGWTF

Tags: Ads

What a great name for something that is going to be promoted on TV like that! I mean could that make that infomerical for the Tiddy Bear any more sexual! I know after I saw that ad, I so want to buy a Tiddy Bear and take a shower. And for $14.95 for 2 it is such a bargain!
xoxo Tito!!!
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Leighton Meester Loves the Gossip Girl Ads

Posted: August 6th, 2008, 9:19pm CDT

Tags: leighton meester Gossip girl Ads

The hit show Gossip Girl is getting ready for its second season, and although critics and parents have put a negative spin on the show’s latest advertising campaign, the cast says they don’t mind at all.

Leighton Meester (who plays Blair Waldorf on the show) told press at the Teen Choice Awards on Sunday: “We just end up seeing it on a billboard somewhere, but I think that it’s smart and it’s fine and it’s cool.”

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JC Penny remembers The Breakfast Club

Posted: July 25th, 2008, 6:03am CDT by SeriouslyOMGWTF

Tags: Ads

How cool was that JC Penny commercial capturing all the great moments from The Breakfast Club.
xoxo HC
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Youth Told That Barack Obama Goes Both Ways [Political Ads]

Posted: July 24th, 2008, 2:48pm CDT by Hamilton Nolan

Tags: Political Ads

Last month MTV announced that it would finally start accepting political ads in order to better engage the youth of our nation in the political process and also because Barack Obama has a huge multimillion-dollar ad account that's not gonna spend itself. But look, the crafty right wing is getting out ahead of the curve here! Because the first political ad ever is now running on MTV, and it is against Barack Obama! Unfortunately it is incredibly trite and may have been assembled by a middle school child with rudimentary video-editing software and a YouTube account. Watch it after the jump and join the McCain revolution! Don't be a stereotypical youth in bed with Two-Way Barack:

[via Wonkette yo]
American Apparel Spoofer Embraces Equality In Genitalia [Fake Ads]

Posted: July 21st, 2008, 11:02am CDT by Hamilton Nolan

Tags: Fake Ads

The notorious, mysterious, and sexy American Apparel ad spoofer raises so many philosophical questions: What is art? What is advertising? What is porn? And does showing blowjobs count as "sexual equality?" The spoofer has a long history of drawing female genitalia (and dildos). But now he or she has made the leap to showing penises for the cause—something Dov Charney can only dream of. Click through for the most overt (possibly NSFW, although it's just a drawing) example:

[Stereohell via Copyranter]
Somebody Please Pun-ch Kenneth Cole. Get It? [Bad Ads]

Posted: July 18th, 2008, 12:47pm CDT by Hamilton Nolan

Tags: bad Ads

Kenneth Cole is not just a middling designer and outspoken advocate for responsible journalism; he's also, for reasons we can't fathom (narcissism), his own advertising copywriter. A bad advertising copywriter. It's not every CEO of a massive fashion brand that's too cheap to hire someone to write his own billboard taglines. But in Kenneth Cole's case, coming up with them only robs him of mere seconds of thought. That's how his poor clothing line ends up with billboards like this one on Houston St.—presumably the balls are there to distract you from the slogan itself:

[via Copyranter]
American Apparel Spoofer Goes Retro-Porny [Fake Ads]

Posted: June 30th, 2008, 1:06pm CDT by Hamilton Nolan

Tags: Fake Ads

The now-famous but still anonymous American Apparel ad spoofer has always done his or her part to portray the hipster robot clothing company's ads as they are in CEO Dov Charney's mind: tasteful porn. The spoofer knows that the mandate to actually put clothes in his ads is just a necessary evil to Dov; he'd rather just see naked, self-stimulating, shaven women writhing around in space—perhaps accompanied by a cute animal. But now the spoofer is urging a return to the unshaven days of yore; a move that fits in with AA's faux-natural branding quite nicely. Clever viral marketing (doubtful)? Or just an unspoken call for variety in AA's secret full-on nude ads, to be unveiled as soon as society is ready for them? After the jump, full photos of the spoofer's latest porny—yet natural—line drawings:

[Stereohell via Animal NY, Copyranter]
Five Ways Camel Cigarettes Are Good For You [Classic Ads]

Posted: June 19th, 2008, 1:20pm CDT by Hamilton Nolan

Tags: classic Ads

Are you aware that Camels are made from finer, more expensive tobaccos than any other brand? And that they stimulate digestion, taste great, and will make you a better swimmer? Failing to teach your kids to smoke Camels is virtually child abuse! All true, according to the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. We've compiled five of the most outrageous claims from classic Camel ads of the 1930s-50s, from the peerless archive at the Gallery of Graphic Design. Read them and be educated. Do it for your "T-Zone!"
Kobe Bryant and Jackass Team Up For Fun Marketing Stunt [Viral Video]

Posted: May 24th, 2008, 12:36pm CDT by ian spiegelman

Tags: Ads

Kobe Bryant, Wee Man, and a pool full of snakes got together for Nike's latest viral marketing campaign, the results of which just hit the Net. Sure, it's an ad, but I can watch anything Jackass-related all day, which I do as often as possible. The same can't be said for that stupid Bam show. Man, I can't stand that kid!
Conservative PACs Sound Obama's Dealth Knell [Attack Ads]

Posted: April 22nd, 2008, 9:49am CDT by Pareene

Tags: Attack Ads

Some shadowy 527s—and one li'l 501(c)4—with hilarious names like "Citizens for a Safe and Prosperous America" and "The Legacy Committee" and "The Justice Society of a New and Safer America" bought some airtime in North Carolina to show off their gross Willie Horton-style attack ads about how Barack Obama is soft on crime. Did you know he is against the dealth penalty? It's true! You can learn all about it after the jump.
Hillary Clinton Will Answer the Nation's Phone, For the Children [Mother, May I Vote For Danger?]

Posted: February 29th, 2008, 2:37pm CST by Pareene

Tags: Ads

It's 3 a.m. and a telephone is ringing—do you know where your kids are? They are in bed! But who will answer their phone? It is terror calling, and when terror calls, who do you want to answer? You want MOM, that's who! That is basically all we can decipher from this awesome and totally 100% real Hillary Clinton campaign ad, about what to do when the world is calling from inside the house. Watch it yourself and cower in fear of a world in which HOPE LETS TERROR GO TO VOICEMAIL, after the jump.
Barack O'Bollywood, and Other Amazing Internet Attack Ads [WoW]

Posted: February 26th, 2008, 10:50am CST by Pareene

Tags: Attack Ads

Remember when we said this was the best amateur Obama YouTube music video ever? We were wrong. We apologize. This is the best one ever. It is insane. It was on boingboing, but don't hold that against it. It is awesome. Ron Paul may be the President of the Internet, but Barack Obama is a living meme.

The clip comes from someone named CamPain2008 and he is some sort of genius. Here's another classic:

We're soliciting ideas for our very own exclusive internet attack ad, and we welcome your suggestions, in the comments or the inbox. Remember: his middle name is Hussein, he's a secret turban-wearing Muslim, and he loves blow. Just like all of you!

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Jenny Craig gets rid of those extra pesky pounds

Posted: February 15th, 2008, 4:34pm CST by SeriouslyOMGWTF

Tags: Ads

(photo from Webster's is my Bitch)
Jenny Craig and Kirstie Alley have officially splits way according to People.
"Although Kirstie will not appear in future advertising endeavors for us, she does remain on Jenny Craig's maintenance program and is confident that our program has helped her incorporate positive lifestyle changes that should last a lifetime," Scott Parker, vice-president of marketing for Jenny Craig, tells PEOPLE.

Well Jenny Craig doesn't seem that positive with her because they have already removed all mentions of her on their site.

Gawker

Michael Bay Just Blew My Mind. Now Could Somebody Blow His Brains Out? [Epic Fail]

Posted: February 15th, 2008, 2:19pm CST by Nick Douglas

Tags: Ads

The world's worst filmmaker recently starred in a Verizon broadband ad parodying his blow-it-all-up-and-chant-"awesome" style, an ad which many received without critique, as if Michael Bay was letting everyone know he's in on the joke -- that he knew he's just a soulless moneymaker. Bay has reduced of his body of work into a 31-second ad. And impressively, nothing has been lost. Before the analysis, watch the work in question:

This is not mere self-mockery, or even Bay spinning his appeal. The ad is not a celebration of the epic, but Bay clearly intends it to be so. It's not just that Michael Bay "demands things to be awesome," but that he believes he can achieve this with explosions and constantly shouting at himself, "awesome!" He congratulates himself four times in 31 seconds. And for what? He's made some flames and a waterspout and bought a tiger. To Bay, this is what awesome means.

Don't say it's just a joke for a commercial. When Bay wanted to add character to the non-speaking car in Transformers, he made it talk through radio songs. To raise the tension in a movie where an asteroid is about to wipe out humankind, he added a father-redeems-daughter's-boyfriend scene. In space. This is a man who rewrote the bombing of Pearl Harbor so one man shot down the entire Japanese air force. Michael Bay's definition of awesome is the opposite of epic. It's 2 Fast 2 Furious. The only impressive things about Bay movies are how carefully he can build up for an obvious plot twist, then even more obviously not twist anything.

The ad also reveals the man's service to commercial interests, wherein entire plots are constructed around product placement and merchandising. Bay calls himself awesome, calls his work awesome (note that up to this point, no third party, except possibly a tiger, is credited with any awesomeness), then calls Verizon awesome, blessing it with his holy power. Like God, the awesomeness of Bay is axiomatic; it needs no defense, for Bay has declared it so.

Contrast with Wes Anderson, who elegantly parodied his style in an American Express ad that drew not only on self-reference but on the classic film Day for Night, the whole genre of arch drama, and filmmaking itself. He's shown as a sloppy spendthrift making a bad film. Someone completely unaware of Anderson could appreciate this ad. And he does it all without even showing the card.

Bay, though, attempts no self-parody. The idea that he'd blow up his swimming pool (I assume he's really installed explosives on the shallow end) is just a half-joke on the level of a Dane Cook "punchline," providing no self-deprecation; he tells you right away to think he is awesome. And even Bay, with the help of footage from his own movie and a giant Transformer, can't keep it up for more than half the ad's length; the second half hard-sells the product. Someone unaware of Bay could appreciate the Verizon ad -- because Verizon didn't have enough confidence to sell the product using Bay's aura alone.

So the ad proves: Bay is powerless. He can only feed off the power of an already cataclysmic plot: Earth-destroying asteroid, earth-destroying robots, earth-destroying Japanese. He can't even convince me to switch Internet providers.

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Is this offensive?

Posted: February 3rd, 2008, 3:14pm CST by SeriouslyOMGWTF

Tags: Ads

According to Virgina Police it is and they removed 2 posters from an Abercrombie & Fitch store after they received several consumer complaints and issued a citation to the store manager for not removing them. An officer told the Hampton Roads:
Adam Bernstein, a police spokesman, said the seizure and the issuance of the summons came only after store management had not heeded warnings to remove the images.

The citation was issued under City Code Section 22.31, Bernstein said, which makes it a crime to display "obscene materials in a business that is open to juveniles." He did not say what was being done with the pictures and when the manager, whose name was not released, is scheduled to appear in court.

I don't think there is anything wrong with that photo and I don't find it obscene. I think all the people who complained need to get over it and stop being such prudes!

Gawker

Obama Will Change America Right Back To 1960 [The Politics Of Failure Have Failed]

Posted: January 30th, 2008, 12:00pm CST by Pareene

Tags: Ads

The 60s are back! Thanks to the candidate for change! Attached, Barry Hussein's new TV ad, set to run right here in New York City—which is briefly important again, did you hear? Barack Obama knows America is sick of the same old ways of doing politics. They're tired of dynastic families remaining in Washington for generations. He knows also that everyone loves the Kennedys! At least, most of the Kennedys. The dead ones mostly, plus the ones we don't see too much of, like Caroline. It was so nice of those Kennedys to adopt Barry and make him one of the family! Just like Brad and Angelina! Or maybe he's infused with the spirit of JFK himself, like Suri Cruise! (The Times notes that the spot references the moon landing, which NIXON did, while leaving out the Bay of Pigs. Seriously? You thought they'd include the Bay of Pigs? Why not a drugged-up Marilyn Monroe getting double-teamed by the President and the Attorney General too!) The full ad is below, watch and pine for the black and white America you don't remember but it seemed pretty awesome.

Seriously? OMG! WTF?

Annie Leibovitz does Disney again

Posted: January 26th, 2008, 2:48pm CST by SeriouslyOMGWTF

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Daily Mail
I don't like these Disney ads as much as the first ones, but I think it is because of the stars that they chose this time around. Although I love Mikhail Baryshnikov as Peter Pan!!!

Gawker

Why Blogs Don't Make Money On Apple Day [Apple]

Posted: January 15th, 2008, 9:58am CST by Nick Douglas

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This morning is Superbowl Day for the web. The Apple Macworld Keynote starts at 9 Pacific, and already tech blogs like Gawker Media's Gizmodo are clocking pageviews like mad as everyone refreshes for news of Apple's latest announcement (this year the guess is an ultralight Mac laptop). It's a scheduled event with a guaranteed boost; last year Gizmodo and competitor Engadget earned four times their normal visitors (and ten times the pageviews), with Engadget breaking 10 million page views thanks to a boost from AOL. I thought ad money would be rolling in for these promised pageviews, but publisher Nick Denton explains why ad sales don't jump today:
Apple Day is a loss-leader. Amazingly, the forecasting systems built into DART [Doubleclick's ad serving system] calculate available inventory by looking at trends, and weekly patterns. They can't take account of the fact that, a year ago, there was a spike at the same time. I guess trafficking experts can make a bit of an allowance. Assume that January is going to be above the DART forecast, and allow for more sales that could normally be satisfied.
Anyway, bottom line. We will do a multiple of normal traffic. Maybe 3-4x as much. Higher bandwidth costs. But no compensating advertising. Still, need to do it because these are the events that define how well the site is competing...As the Superbowl is to TV, and elections are to cable news, so Jobsnote is to the web. It's like a supernova of web traffic, that can briefly outshine all the other stars in the galaxy put together.

To clarify: Advertisers buy bulk sets of impressions: One hundred thousand views, for example. In that bulk manner, ad teams sell up to 80% of their normal monthly inventory (usually a lot less, part of why you see "Gawker Artist" banners on this network and cheap Google ads on others). You forecast traffic based on the previous months and not on the same month one year ago, since a healthy blog grows a lot in a year. Doubleclick's ad system apparently isn't sophisticated enough to also factor in an annual January spike. Thus you have a bunch of extra pageviews today, and no extra sold ads to fill them with.

Seriously? OMG! WTF?

A catastrophic commercial

Posted: December 26th, 2007, 7:39am CST by SeriouslyOMGWTF

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That commercial is so cruel and evil for the Ford SportKa. Poor poor kitty.
Thanks Geraldo aka Mr Allergic to Cats for sharing…not.

UPDATE: The bird one is funny though:
Retro: Why Herbal Essence is only for women…

Posted: October 29th, 2007, 7:22am CDT by SeriouslyOMGWTF

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That is way too funny and true! BTW I love Herbal Essence shampoo and conditioner. Yes Yes Yes Yes!!!
Thanks Josh!

TMZ.com

PETA Presents: Celeb Skin!

Posted: September 22nd, 2007, 3:45am CDT by TMZ Staff

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Filed under: Life Style, Hot Bodies
TMZ.com: Animal rights group PETA has gone and done the coolest thing since ... well, forever. Their latest spokeshottie for vegetarianism features a hot and totally naked Alicia Silverstone. But the "Clueless" star isn't the first sexbomb to bare it all for... Read more

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