The start of the clip is a little… odd, but when it comes to advertising a luxury good like alcohol, that’s not terribly unusual. We see expensive cars, people dressed in attire unsuitable for the terrain, a few clear beverages passed around and, yeah, the most awesome-looking robot greyhounds you’ll ever see, at least until 2115.
We’d like to think that this Chinese sunglass maker who’s using Helen Keller to hawk its shades is a simple case of lost in translation. But we’re finding it hard to believe that even the crudest of translators wouldn’t pick up on the fact that she was completely blind.
Online dating might be the future of romance, but it still has its fair share of detractors. Including a pair of UCLA professors, who think that eHarmony — a dating site which prides itself on its scientific approach — is duping its users.
Following the huge success of services like Groupon and LivingSocial, it was only a matter of time before Facebook got into the business of deals. The company first announced Facebook Offers last month and the service has has now started rolling out across the social network.
The “ultrabook” doesn’t exactly have people going nuts at the moment. They’re great, skinny, fast laptops — but they’re not cultural smash. The solution? Create a crazy Japanese acid binge TV commercial? Maybe? Add more acid.
Sure, most of the handsets in this Bell advertisement are pretty hideous — but it was the late ’70s, man. These were hideous times. And besides, I’ll take the wacky “Sculptura” and “Stowaway” over today’s sea of black blech rectangles.
Here’s one way to reduce testicular cancer: make people choose between using a BlackBerry and examining their balls to prevent death.
Advertising can be weird — but weird doesn’t have to mean either good or bad. I still can’t decide where Intel’s “Desperado” ad for Ultrabooks sits on the spectrum.
Ah, Japan, you crazy country you. As if your advertising wasn’t surreal enough already, the advent of posters that react to being kissed has taken things into a whole new league.
Finding free internet access in Australia just means hunting down the nearest Wi-Fi hotspot. But in Brazil those are few and far between. So Coca-Cola’s ad agency, Ogilvy & Mather, created these Coke-branded machines that dispense free mobile data instead of sugar water.
