A Blast from the Ad Past
Funny or Die posted up some golden oldies from the thirties. These are the choicest cuts of retroactive poor taste. Taglines include “More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette,” “They’re happy...
View Article“Montauk Monster” is a “Marketing Monster?”
Loren Coleman at Cryptomundo has done something inbetween suggest and imply that the “Montauk Monster” is nothing more than a publicity stunt to sell Snapple’s “Venom” energy drink. He writes The...
View ArticleIs the Ad Porn more Ad Creep?
The interwebs are abuzz with tittering about the video of a pretty young blond woman who sensually sexually licks nearly every phallic object in the hotel room of a chain hotel. You tube has gone so...
View ArticleDrunk Depressed Penguins
Right… so the penguins are loosing their habitat, so what is the solution? DRINK! Denial and commerce: it is the American way. Related posts: Advertising Age: “We Hate Ourselves” “Montauk Monster” is a...
View ArticleFor all the graffiti haters…
Ironworkers spray paint names of young cancer patients onto the beams of the Yawkey Center going up at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The building’s steel skeleton is now a brightly colored,...
View ArticleBe-twix and ad and a hard case
So the question is… is this a twix advertisement? or was it just that cool to paint a Twix logo on the back of your white portable radio in the heyday of 80’s graffiti-cool? Picture via Mariasa...
View ArticlePortland Summer Advertising Smorgasbord
This is a mixed up collection of funny advertising pictures from my 5 weeks in Portland. Some funny, some tragic, some WTR R U Serious?!! The lamppost with all the flyers for music shows says “Dont...
View ArticleConfusing on several levels…
Welcome Kelli Anderson, our newest latest on the Anti-Advertising Agency site. Kelli worked on the New York Times Special Edition designing ads for Dr. Zizmor among other things. Welcome Kelli! “For...
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