Microsoft parks a “I’m a PC” promotion booth right in front of the Apple store in Birmingham, England. The move is an extension of the Redmond-based software giant’s $300 million advertising campaign aimed at cleaning up the image of its Windows Vista operating system, which has been tarnished at the hands of Apple’s long-running “I’m… Continue reading I’m a PC in front of the Apple store
Category: Advertising
VIP Gym. Get Up And Run!
These posters were glued to chairs in cafes and restaurants close to VIP Gyms. Old (from 2005) but great guerilla marketing.
Google Adds Image Ads To Sponsored Search Results
Google’s sponsored search results now include products and images. A search for diamonds displays a text ad from Blue Nile and on click more information plus an image ad without leaving the page. The same applies for Google’s sidebar ads.
Wassup Obama 2008
A new commercial for Barack Obama is making the rounds at YouTube. It’s a remake of Budweiser “Wassup” commercials from 1999-2002 and touches on unemployment, health care, the stock market, the war and environment. First Video: Will.I.am’s “Yes we can [via TechCrunch & Adverblog]
Toblerone Advertising: Bicycle Rack
Sex Sells: Use Cases Of Sexual Imagery In Advertising
Sexuality is considered one of the most powerful tools of marketing and particularly advertising whereby the ads can be higly overt or extremely subtle. For men, it (mostly) works all the time. Here are a couple of sexual advertisements I like.
Keep Holland Clean
“Don’t turn the bus into a garbage truck. It’s just as easy to throw your trash in the waste bin.” People do not treat public buses with respect. They leave they’re garbage on it. We asked people not to turn their buses into garbage trucks.
Woot Ad on Google Finance: Marketing Stunt!?
Combine Google Finance, the stock market freefall and an advertisement which pops up on a search for “Goog” (Google’s Nasdaq symbol): “Before you jump out of that window, why not spend your last remaining dollars at Woot?” If it’s a great marketing stunt by Woot I wonder what Google Adwords they used. If not that’s… Continue reading Woot Ad on Google Finance: Marketing Stunt!?
Video: Fan-Created iPhone Advertisement
The boom around Apple’s iPhone has just started. Here is an advertisement created by Apple fans.
Sexy: Get String From Object
Geeky but very appropriate job advertisement by Netherlands based company Virgil to recruit programmers. Apparently getStringFromObject() is a JAVA command but in this context it obviously means something different 🙂