// 18 June 2009, 21:47
I love being wrong. I love those rare occasions when advertising surprises and makes me sit up and take notice. Lately, we’re seeing an injection of cleverness in the form of vampire advertising.
These ads, for real products, are not intended for normal folks, who shuffle about during their morning commutes and Saturday golf outings, but [...]
// a tale of advertising: online, advertising: tv/radio, brands & branding
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// 05 November 2008, 19:15
Barack Obama has won a much deserved and long-fought campaign. Everyone will be talking for weeks about the reason why — political trends, economic slumps, Sarah Palin, etc., but I think we all need to realise that Obama has successfully run the first truly 21st century campaign, and thereby the first branded campaign. That is the [...]
// a tale of advertising: online, advertising: tv/radio, brands & branding, national identities, politics, the internet, typography
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// 25 September 2008, 18:34
I don’t think I’ve ever praised an online ad of any form, but I have to post this incredibly clever promotional video for Warioland on Wii. The video demonstrates how you shake the controller while playing. That’s all I’m saying.
•• Video Here »
// a tale of advertising: online, video games, web technology
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// 21 March 2008, 01:12
My prayers have been answered! I have finally found a way to block ads in Safari! The program is called SafariBlock from FSB Software. Go download and install it right now! »
The website is awful, but use the left-hand navigation and then click the “downloads” tab.
For a while I’ve heard rumours about add-ons that completely [...]
// a tale of advertising: online, computers & gadgets, the internet, web technology
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// 13 December 2007, 23:40
I officially cancelled my MySpace account after about a year of waining interest and use. The final straw was the fact that my account got hacked for the second time, and someone, I suspect a bot, posted spam comments on several friends’ pages. Need a design reason why MySpace is over:
As you can see, the [...]
// a tale of advertising: online, brands & branding, design: web, the internet
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// 21 November 2007, 10:33
Mac ad on Vista homepage – click for a larger screenshot
Online advertising is a tricky game. Considering recommendation and association engines are still somewhat imprecise, we often wind up with very cheekily placed ads. I recall one instance where a news article about terror threats in New York was framed by banner ads seducing us [...]
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