Archive for the 'Advertising' Category

Dear American Advertisers

More of something like this, please:

via Dooce

May the Lord Bless Ad Filtering Software

Part of my lingering responsibilities for Feministe is putting together their new ad content. This has been a personal challenge — because if you surf the internet like I do the only time you click on an ad is on accident. It is a necessary evil, seeing that the hosting service was becoming […]

A Lesson in Content and Distribution

The Big Ten Network debuts tomorrow, piquing the interest of many a Midwestern college sports fan. The Big Ten Network is a subsidiary of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who is decidedly evil and way too rich for his own good, in partnership with the Big Ten universities. The network plans to carry all […]

Baby Einstein Videos Don’t Work

Disney is in an uproar demanding a retraction on a University of Washington study that their Baby Einstein videos don’t advance children’s learning development, and in fact “infants who watched DVD’s and videos designed for babies understood fewer words than did infants who didn’t watch the recorded programs.” No news yet on whether Disney […]

The Smartest Tits

Know what’s real smart? Riding your bike with your eyes closed. Or whatever she’s doing.
This ad from the Allergan Medical Silicone-Filled Breast Implants (note trademark symbol) is most ironical, since breasts are neither smart, nor do they make the wearer (implantee?) more intelligent. Even more mystifying is that her breast implants, the […]

He’s Got Mr. Leggs, And He Knows How To Use Them

At least today’s ads for young, hip bachelors are more covert about their misogyny (most of the time).

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Things You Find in the Garage

I want to know why the previous homeowner had this.

Still Faint and Feverish

Entertain yourselves by browsing Ads of the World. Some are pretty, some bizarre, and some amazingly misogynist.

Magical Negro Strikes Again?

Obviously I haven’t seen “Black Snake Moan” yet, but I can’t get away from the buzz today. Several bloggers I respect are writing about the website and the trailers (see here in particular), and a particularly nasty discussion about the movie posters has erupted at Salon.
It’s the interview with director Craig Brewer at Salon […]

Your Blogmistress is a Sucka

For Rap Cat:

Who cares about the food, I just know I’m in for hours of Dougly training.

Cheese, The New Junk Food

Nooooooooo!
Cheese is to be treated as junk food under new advertising rules for children’s television. Commercials promoting it will be banned during children’s TV programmes and those with a large proportion of young viewers.
The rules, which come into force this month, are part of a Government drive to reduce children’s exposure to foods […]