Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 8:02PM While I like the thinking behind these ads by Neogama BBH, I'm afraid they're completely lost on me. However, I do think they're beautiful to look at. The only stop-smoking-ads that have ever had any effect on me at all are the Tips from Former Smokers series.
Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 7:51PM Continuing the world's best viral marketing campaign ever is this disused metro station in Paris being used as a Prometheus ad.
According to the press release, Paris subway passengers will be able to "live for a few seconds the mysterious atmosphere of the cave in which a team of scientists, parties in the darkest corners of the universe aboard Prometheus spacecraft, will discover the origins of humanity."
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 7:28AM Kayak are pretty good are weird ads, and this latest certainly doesn't disappoint. By BFG 9000.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 7:12AM A tribute to Adam "MCA" Yauch from his wife and some kids she managed to talk in to it.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 7:18PM I'm not even sure what that title means, I stole it from PSFK. The whole thing is 'What is the Future of Same Sex Advertising?'
Hmm. It's a good question, but I don't even know what 'same sex advertising' is. The article says, "a handful of brands have been targeting the LGBT demographic..." and then goes on to talk about JC Penney, Ellen and all that, but targeting? How, exactly? To the gay lifestyle which is obviously hugely different to a hetrosexual lifestyle? Or is it just because the feature a homosexual couple? Either way, how these ads are targeted to gay people is beyond me. I suppose you could argue that if the ads were featured in magazines targeted at gay people then they're, well targeted at gay people, but that just brings up the whole problem that we've still got (or still need) this division between gay and 'straight' magazines.
And then there's the title. 'Same sex advertising' isn't going to change - advertising is. And if you're defining GAP, J.Crew and Ray Ban's recent ads as 'same sex advertising', then is all other advertising 'hetro advertising'? No. It's just advertising.
As far as I'm concerned the future of 'same sex advertising' is the same future of different sex (?) advertisng. So, what then is the future of advertising? Well that's a pretty big question, but I'm pretty sure it'll probably feature some gay couples. I'm not sure how they'll be 'targeted', and I don't think it will make gay people want to buy anything any more than usual, but it will be nice to see more brands show that they don't give a rat's arse about who loves who.
More than can be said for 'normal' Mike considering his response to the PSFK article.
If anyone has any views on this I'd love to hear them. I'm really open for a discussion.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 7:40AM I love how French these ads are. Wherelse do you run the risk of hitting a boar? Anyway, I love the simplicity of and the idea behind these ads from Y&R Paris, but the copy sucks.
Monday, May 14, 2012 at 5:00PM Created by UK Vogue. Her Majesty's favourite colour is blue. As is mine, incidently.
Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 3:44PM Finding out that people who work in advertising use social media in a completely different way to people who don't isn't all that surprising. Maybe we're just all advertising to each other. Oh well.
Via Co.Create
