Norfolk, VA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or, PETA, received a $100M donation from the McDonald's Corporation in exchange for a gentlemen's agreement that PETA will feature McDonald's menu items in PETA's advertising campaigns. Mc...
ShamWOW! What do you think of when you hear this word? Is it the famous infomercial for super-absorbent towels? If so, those marketers are doing something right. They have engrained that word into viewers' heads through exaggerating almost every elem...
Meercats, baby lions, baby tigers, kittens and puppies. That is the top five list of animals that telecommunications companies are shoving down consumers' throats in order to move more of their product. "What do they animals have in common wit...
Editors of several spoof and satire news websites have angrily denied that they have "sold out" and will now allow corporate sponsorship of articles and submissions. One editor, sipping a refreshing diet coke, which is low in calories yet still re...
Many people have called New Jersey the "Armpit of America" for several reasons: 1. The state creates too much garbage and wastes. 2. It has more than a hundred toxic waste dumps, which is the highest of all the states. 3. It is the largest chemi...
Dateline: NEW YORK-Hugo "Sellout" Slickster, a recovering ex-advertiser, opened The Center for Alienated and Cynical Advertisers (CACA). Its mission is to provide support for advertisers who are withdrawn and embittered because their job forces them...
It was the first thing I noticed as the beautiful Pamela his secretary led me in, the view from the many tall windows, the whole of Manhattan. The second thing was the massive desk, must have weighed a ton or more and looked like an altar. Then there were the paintings, Hockney, Smart, Dobell, Jasper Johns; I figured they had something in common but didn't know at the time what it was. Cabinets ev...
A few company's have teamed up to participate in a collaborative advertising campaign. An advertising "Cage Match" billed ADV ANNHILATION SHOWDOWN will take place this spring. Some of the "fighters" will include: THE KOOL AID MAN - Slight advantage in size, but a little slow, and of course, there's that "glass jaw." TONY THE TIGER - Predicted by several of the experts to be the winner,...
John Cooper Clarke's Flogging Oven Chips I was watching telly. ITV When a familiar voice jumped out at me A Mancunian accent from the past A cigarette-induced breathless rasp The name of the poet was on my lips John Cooper Clarke was flogging oven chips I couldn't believe it. I listened again The sponsor of the sacrilege was Mr McCain Not the US politician from the Christian right Bu...
Be Witched was a situation comedy, or sitcom (short for stupid idiots tune in comedies) starring Lizzy Montgummy as Sam Stevens. A bigamist (or, possibly, a polyandryist), Sam was a transvestite witch who, out of stupidity, renounced magic in favor of love. She had two husbands, both named Darren (or, sometimes, Dum Dum, Durwood, Dagwood, or Dingleberry), who, coincidentally, were both employed by...
In the competitive world of advertising, changing the slogan of a product that consumers have come to know and love can either result in you bathing in money, or bathing once a month. Executives at Taco Bell have decided take a huge risk by going wit...
MILWAUKEE - Jonathan Goldsmith, the man who is known throughout the civilized world as The World's Most Interesting Man, was in Beer City speaking at a convention of The Hops and Malt Workers Union. Goldsmith who has appeared in over 90 television...
Popular illusionist, and mind-bending trickster, Derren Brown has seen the adverts for his new DVD pulled by advertising watchdogs after a series of complaints from the public. Watch is available now and has suddenly surged up the DVD charts after...
Eurovision winner, Loreen, is at the centre of a bidding war for the use of his Eurovision winning, chart-topping song Euphoria. Loreen won the competition for Sweden, and now Ikea and Volvo are both after using the song in their latest advertising c...
In 2008, before he'd been declared the winner of the presidential election, Barack Obama was named Advertising Age's "Marketer of the Year." And now, in 2012, Obama seeks a repeat win of the advertising honor. "The presidency has been cool, and I'...
Two of the English Premier League's best known managers have been recruited to front a new advertising drive designed to encourage Brits to holiday at home. Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish and his Arsenal counterpart Arsene Wenger joined forces to f...
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