According to AdAge, Zack16 and his missing man parts is an effort to sell more Tampax. “It was inexpensive for us to do this one little effort and kind of get a feel for how much pickup it gets, if it goes viral or if it doesn’t,” a P&G spokesman said. Leo Burnett is the [...]
Dark Comedy Sketches Work To Modernize ’80s Vodka Brand
Zach Galifianakis, Tim and Eric in Absolut Zach (Part One) from Zach Galifianakis The New York Times Sunday Magazine ran a feature on comedian Zach Galifianakis a couple weeks ago. In the piece, author John Wray mentions the Absolut Vodka “ads” Galifianakis did. The resulting three sketches, made in collaboration with the absurdist comedy duo [...]
American Media Pie
The lyrics herein are brilliant: Sung to Don McLean’s “American Pie”, this 19 stanza song was written and produced in just one day by “L. McDuff”.
Leroy Smith Has The Best Fake In The Game
In a culture awash with self-help books and DVDs, Tony Robbinsesque seminars, and late night pitches on TV, Leroy Smith really has little to worry about. That’s because his infomercial is simply better than all the rest. Learn more at GetYourBasketballOn.com.
Phish Swims On
A band like Phish with legions of loyal followers doesn’t need advertising. But they have it anyway…
No Beer Drinkers Were Injured During The Making of Amstel’s Mouth Watering Viral
[via our friends at 180 Amsterdam]
Ninja Says Download IE8
The following video from Bradly and Montgomery premieres today as part of a keynote address at MIX09, Microsoft’s developer conference in Las Vegas. Ben Carlson, Chief Strategy Officer of Bradly and Montgomery, explains the thinking behind the campaign, “Almost everything you’ve experienced on the World Wide Web in the past 15 years or so has [...]
How To Sell TV Technology On The Web In 2009
For more on Samsung LED technology, please see The Google. Here’s a bit more on the British sheep industry.
Do You Pretend To Work?
If you pretend to work (and who among us doesn’t?), you’ll want to make sure you have the insanely expensive Microsoft Office for Mac suite of applications installed on your machine. Then the trick is to keep Excel, Word and Power Point open at all times on your desktop. That’s the trinity of seriousness, even [...]
Please Go Away (For A Day)
The Portland Egotist is alive and kicking. So don’t look here, look there. By the end of the day, there will be a collection of 10 posts about Portland’s perfect climate for creative pursuits.
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