Category: Advertising

BBC News writes, UK media consumers are changing their diets: Per year, they spend: 41 days online vs. 37 days watching TV

The 2006 best ads awards will be held in June. Winners will be chosen from all featured work on bestads. So keep sending in your new about-to-win-an-award work. Extensive list of great ads from 2005 is located here: http://www.bestadsontv.com/awards.php

More urinal advertising, this time a little bit more clever than the simple Playstation stickers which, a lot of people claimed, were fake. Mini “Testing your handling skills” More Mini Ads About Mini

Quite clever ad for Sony PlayStation with the philosophy that gaming is everywhere. Increase your score by hitting the icons. Fake? Personally I think there are better options for advertising on urinals, for example the typical “football-game” where you need to shoot goals with your urine stream. That is actually more “fun”, at least when… Continue reading Piss On Playstation

It is not very lucrative for companies to break into saturated markets and for sure not when we are talking about Germany’s energy market being free since 1998. Nevertheless dutch company Nuon started in January 2006 to promise “lekker Strom” (and goede, nieuwe, raadzaam, betaalbaar Strom) while trying to lure customers with aggressive marketing and… Continue reading Lekker, Goede, Betaalbaar Strom. Eh, Huh?

Google has opened up its AdWords print ad program to all AdWords publishers, beginning the first auction of adspace in 28 magazines. The first auction ends February 20, and covers specific issues coming sometime between May and September. The deadline to submit a bid is February 20th, after which your bid will compete against other… Continue reading Google PRINT AdWords

“Ephydrol. Gets rid of deadly foot odor.” More recent ads