New York Design Firm Combines Body Paint, Typography for Gorgeous Ads
The combination of body paint and typography creates visually stunning advertising from New York-based Stagmeister & Walsh. read more
Found in: Culture, NewsYouTube Adds Ads to Mobile Music Vids
YouTube has announced that the video-streaming website will soon start broadcasting advertising to mobile users. The company currently gets 200 million video views a day from mobile devices and will put “pre-roll” ads at the beginning of several thousand videos. These videos will be accompanied by a group of music videos that have only just become available for YouTube mobile. The videos will come from Vevo and from YouTube’s network of partners.... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsFive Things Leslie Nielsen Tried to Sell You
Maybe you forgot, but Leslie Nielsen also had a knack for sales—or at least pitching them. We’ve compiled five of the best advertisements featuring the recently deceased funnyman.... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayTwitter Announces Country-Specific Advertising
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo recently revealed that we can expect to see country-specific advertising on Twitter “early next year.”... read more
Found in: Industry, NewsSchooling Mad Men: An Advertising Professor and Student Discuss the Show
This story is a part of our Mad Men Takeover. Season four of the series premieres on AMC this Sunday, July 25. — There’s a lot of information on Mad Men that the advertising-uninitiated of us might not understand. The show has been lauded for its accuracy, but if you don’t know the first thing about advertising, how can you tell? It seemed that there was a lot we could be taught by the pros. So we turned to The Creative Circus, an Atlanta-based school that trains for the creative side of the advertising, interactive development, design and photography industries.... read more
Found in: Culture, FeaturesWhiskey Toothpaste, Chicken Candy and Hot Dr. Pepper: Inexplicably Real Ads from the Don Draper Decade
This story is a part of our Mad Men Takeover. Season four of the series premieres on AMC this Sunday, July 25. — Good advertisers don’t just sell products, they sell a desire—a false sense of necessity—for a product. Great advertisers do this, too, but their scope is even greater; they sell lifestyles and ideas. In our search for real print advertisements from the 1960s, when Mad Men’s Don Draper was selling, we found examples of every level of advertising skill.... read more
Found in: Culture, FeaturesSeven Marketing Campaigns That Make Us Feel Like We’re Still Living in the Mad Men Era
This story is a part of our Mad Men Takeover. Season four of the series premieres on AMC this Sunday, July 25. — There’s no denying that the mad men of Madison Avenue were brilliant at their craft. But there’s also no denying that, as represented on the show, many creatives of that era possessed a particularly virulent brand of misogyny and cultural insensitivity. (Remember that time Roger Sterling performed in blackface?) Unfortunately, it looks like some companies still carry those less-flattering elements in their work in 2010. Here’s a roundup of products and ad campaigns that hearken back to... read more
Found in: TV, FeaturesWatch a Hilariously Cheesy University of Missouri Recruitment Ad Featuring Jon Hamm
This story is a part of our Mad Men Takeover. Season four of the series premieres on AMC this Sunday, July 25. — Before he was Don Draper, he was Jonathan Hamm, cutting his teeth in university productions of Assassins and Cabaret.... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsWatch OutKast's Andre 3000 Cover The Beatles for the NBA Finals
With all the hype around Big Boi’s anticipated summer album, we were beginning to wonder what happened to the music career his OutKast partner-in-crime, Andre 3000.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsTen Filmmakers Who Rocked the Ad World
The film is a high-octane epic full of fast-paced shots, thrilling pursuits and a heart-pounding score... read more
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