Classic Ad: Baby Laugh A Lot

RetroAd: Soviet Meat Commercial c. 1986

Brad's Acres

Check out Brad Berens's hilarious post on the enduring relevance of Green Acres as a storytelling engine, and its potential ratings power in our digital world.

Note to Brad: Your damned post put that frigging theme song in my head for 36 hours. Wait, now its back. Damn you! ;-)



If you play to the end, you will see that Grape Nuts fill you up, not out.


BTW, a Gabor is the only person that came make snobbish elitism lovable. And so busty, too!

Thanks for reading, and don't forget to write.

Dinnatime Yo

It's Never Too Early to Make a Christmas Gift List...

Video Ads for Little Guys

As the web moves inexorably from text to video centric, small and medium sized businesses are between the granite and the concrete wall, eh?

Not if you buy into the concept of Spotmixer, an online application that lets advertisers create online video ads using a combination of stock and video assets.

Amateur ads are nothing new.

But being able to create a video ad using a simple tool that works like the Microsoft video maker is an idea that will be a welcome arrival for many small businesses. Using such ads, such marketers can gain a presence in Youtube, Google Video Adwords, and the like. I don't think they're ready for TV, but then there's more to life than the big box.

See some of these ads here:

http://www.spotmixer.com/create_video/get_inspired#

If you're a little guy, or someone who has trouble justifying 6 digit costs for :30s, it may be your new best friend.

Thanks for reading, and don't forget to write.

Hot Pepper

Rich Corinthian Leather

Oldest Living is Full of Baloney Today...

Dominic Delivers in 30 Minutes or Less.

In our acutely religiousized culture today I am not sure Xerox could do this campaign now. But it'll always be one of those classic ad campaigns that makes me smile most.

Two pages per second! And look at the size of that thing. My, how times have changed. My $300 desktop printer does 3 in one square foot of desk space.

Liberation through suds

TWO CELEBS...

...that seemingly would endorse ANYTHING! I like that in a celeb! ;-)

contented cows

Before Vandelay Industries

COLORS FOR LIFE

Look at the Seat Room!

DOES ANYONE ELSE HEAR A SIMILARITY BETWEEN ANDY GRIFFITH AND JOHN DURHAM'S ACCENT?

That means that the rest of us are Opie, Goober, and Aint Bea. So perhaps I shouldn't have brought it up... I refuse to be Aint Bea. Being accused of being like Charlotte from Sex and the City was bad enough.

The best part of the second ad is Aint Bea's Sankagasm when she first takes hold of the new easy to handle jar. Watch for it. I think I hear a run on Sanka...

The Magic Begins

Vely Happy

The times they have a changed

Tickle Yer Innards