Archive for January, 2012
Face to Facebook.
Here’s an interesting experiment. For Arlynn Presser‘s new year’s resolution she decided to visit all 325 of her Facebook friends. The trick is, she suffers from agrophobia, which made the task just a tad bit more difficult. Arlynn chronicled everything on her blog and is also making a documentary about her adventure. Via
Filed under: Good Stuff | Closed
Tags: good, social media
Look, we all know this isn’t really “Steve” or “Sarah.” And we know this isn’t how they really act over getting a tax refund. Or how they act… ever. So if you’re going to try and entertain us with a fake story about fake actors doing ridiculously fake things, it better be funny. This isn’t.
Filed under: Are you kidding me? | Closed
Tags: campaign, ridiculous, TV
No Daddy.
I recently moved all my domain registrations from GoDaddy due to their support of SOPA and PIPA as well as their CEO’s penchant for shooting elephants. But not much farther down the list is their horrible advertising like this.
Filed under: Are you kidding me? | Closed
Tags: ridiculous
When my wife pauses the National Championship Game to say “God that is just a terrible commercial” you know it’s really bad.
Filed under: Are you kidding me? | 1 Comment
Tags: ridiculous, TV
Smart thief caught on cam
Now this is really clever. It’s shot in an interesting way. The weird actions of the thief grab and keep your attention. And then the payoff at the end is a good laugh coupled with the product benefit. This is my favorite spot so far in 2012.
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Tags: funny, good, TV
It’s not crazy, it’s awesome.
I love everything about this ESPN spot. They’ve been running this campaign for years and it’s great to see how continually fresh they can make it. It just goes to show that if you have a great idea, you can do executions forever. I saw this spot about 50 times during the college bowl season […]
Filed under: Good Stuff | Closed
Tags: campaign, funny, good, TV
Read this and do it.
So true. This is one that’s played out.
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Tags: Commentary, good, posters
For several years now, Doritos “Crash the Super Bowl” has been letting the public submit their own commercial efforts. And as a whole, they’ve been utterly terrible. Now some of this year’s crop are showing up on YouTube. This one below, while better, is still horrible. If this is what we have to look forward […]
Filed under: Are you kidding me? | Closed
Tags: contest, ridiculous, TV
By today’s standards, this Lego ad from 1981 is considered long copy. And it’d probably get knocked for not being exciting enough or some such ridiculousness.
Filed under: Good Stuff | 3 Comments
Tags: good, print, vintage
I’m back and ready to post.
Hey Dog & Pony Show readers, just a quick note to let you know I’m back from vacation and ready to start posting again. Thanks for reading.
Filed under: Commentary | Closed
Tags: Commentary