18 posts tagged “ads”
These system message ads don't have quite the same punch as text:
There's a Heineken billboard at the train station that says:
and I had just put my book down, so my head started playing with the words, and I decided it should be:
though I suppose it could also be:
P.S. Yo mama so old, her birth certificate is set in Cooper Black!
Barry Ritholz elaborates on the recent WSJ article about Apple as tastemaker:
I cannot remember the last song that "broke" on the radio for me. I've actually discovered more music on Apple's commercials than I have on FM over the past 5 years. The Original iTunes commercial featured The Propellerhead's "Take California" (on Decksandrumsandrockandroll). It is funny to look at that original commercial, only a few years old now, and think back as to how groundbreaking the concept of "1000 songs, in your pocket" actually was; today, its a gimme.
By way of Global Nerdy, this video of AT&T's "You Will" commercials:
These were on TV when I was 13 and I'm amazed how every single thing is possible now. Joey makes the further point that AT&T isn't responsible for any of the ways you can do them today, but I'm more impressed that all of these happened.
Who seriously thinks "the ones that put you in the now" is effective ad copy?
You may have heard that Apple has dumped Justin Long, the guy who played the Mac to John Hodgman's PC in their tv ads. At long last, now you can see the new Mac ads that don't have Justin Long in them!
