Showing posts with label Advertising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Advertising. Show all posts

Disrupting New Media and Verticals


This is an amazing article. Below is a little teaser of the type of disrupting you might be reading into.
http://www.clickhole.com/quiz/are-you-disruptor-2205


If I can build on that, I'd like to point out the right column content area labeled just as honestly.


Feelings I Have After a 20 Hour Work Day


At 3AM - still cranking but finding comfortable positions


At 4AM - delirious and ready to help wherever I can


At 5AM - in retrospect of the client request

Travel Agency Offers Ovulation Discount

Your country's birth rate is on a steep decline, now that is one hell of an epidemic. Spies Travel has stepped up, with ad agency Robert/Boisin & Like-Minded, to give some love and affection to this issue with a campaign titled,
"Do-It for Denmark". 


The travel provider offers discounts to people willing to take romantic getaways for baby making fun times. Bonus if you prove your conception a success — you'll be awarded 3 years of baby supplies and a family vacation. Money Shot!







"We did some research and realized that it’s mainly couples that go on these city trips and looking at our own experience in foreign cities it always been sort of romantic trips with lots of extra bed action."







Here is the site:
doitfordenmark.parseapp.com


Facebook Fraud

“Evidence Facebook’s revenue is based on fake likes. My first vid on the problem with Facebook: http://bit.ly/1dXudqY. I know first-hand that Facebook’s advertising model is deeply flawed. When I paid to promote my page I gained 80,000 followers in developing countries who didn’t care about Veritasium (but I wasn’t aware of this at the time). They drove my reach and engagement numbers down, basically rendering the page useless.”

Job Propulsion Labs - Online Episodes



Above is the first episode of a series done for Job Propulsion Labs, "where people receive the personalized training they need to get the ad career they're meant to have. "

Each episode focuses on a different aspect of finding your dream job and gives an brief idea of how to get there. Click the image below for the JPL YouTube page to watch the remaining episodes. My favorite moment could very well be the epic 80's ending. 


You can also checkout the website here which is soon to have an update of content.


And just for bonus points, here is a poster that is screen printed and handed out at events. 




Research in Reverse: Google's Nexus 7 Commercial

This kid is afraid to speak in public, so he asks, "Google, what is the meaning of glossophobia?" Isn't this the answer to your ponder, kid? If I was 9 year old that was afraid of giving my speech to the class, I wouldn't look up the answer to the definition of that fear. I already know the definition, I'm experiencing it! Did some bully at the bike rack push him and holler out, "Get outta here you glossophobia geek". Not likely, bullies don't even know the word glossophobia exists.

Shouldn't it be, "Google, what word defines the fear of public speaking?" The answer then being, glossophobia.