Archive for August, 2007

From AdRants
So you’ve got your new iPhone and you think it’s really, really cool. You can’t stop showing it to all your friends. You even love that 300 page bill that came in a box. It’s just the coolest thing ever, right? Well, just wait until AdMob finds you.
Mobile phone ad network AdMob just launched [...]

From Metro
A woman in America accused of shoplifting made a daring escape bid when apprehended by police – by wriggling out of her shirt and running topless down the street.
The woman was allegedly seen by witnesses stealing items from the shop in Trenton, Pennsylvania. Police caught her and brought her back to the store, where [...]

From BillboardAdvertisersAreIdiots.com.
Here’s an interesting one. Billboard Advertisers are Idiots is an effort to get billboard advertisers to stop “blighting” the landscape with their ads.
The whole thing is a little muddly - offending advertisers are listed as “not idiots,” with an image of the board and contact info of the media planner if available. The idea [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iATRoTxASwQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6I2CQpTP8M

From AdRants
In a way, it’s the job of a PSA to cut through all the glitzy ad noise and deliver a more crucial message - one that protects families from abuse, unprotected sex or drugs, for example.
But on their noble mission to maintain the status quo, sometimes an overzealous PSA can just scare the shit [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzfAyyb4bz8

From AdFreak
I didn’t know drunken driving had reached a point where the standard warnings were no longer effective. Apparently, it’s now up to video games — those bastions of appropriate moral and social values — to convince drunks to take a cab home. That’s where the Piss-Screen comes into play. According to the Web site, [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcIOy6XcM3s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiAHm8AhbZE