Our buddy Copyranter spotted this excellent ad for Jockstrap Maid Service. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that what you get for the money is a dude in a thong who wanders around your apartment pretending to clean. Santa, can I get this one in my stocking? [Copyranter] Original by […]
If you aren’t into cats staring at you from every direction, this new advertising campaign will be a nightmare. But it’s also sort of adorable. In London’s Clapham Common Tube station all ads have been replaced with pictures of cats — the turnstiles, the ads on the wall, anywhere there would be an ad, there’s a cat […]
Is there a word in the English language to describe when advertising is so delightful you don’t even mind that it’s advertising? Because that’s the word I need for this Poopy Cat commercial, a Dutch subscription service for disposable cat litter boxes. (Um, brilliant, if environmentally unfriendly, idea, right?) Introducing the Poopy Cat Dolls, a sassy group […]
Wonderful Pistachios have really stepped up their ad game in what seems like an exorbitantly expensive way. I mean, they’ve landed Snoop Dogg, Homer and Bart Simpson, Psy at the height of his awful-moment-in-pop-culture fame, even the Prancercise lady … I had no idea there was so much money in pistachios. This latest video star […]
Two weeks ago, Belvedere Vodka tweeted an ad depicting a man pulling a surprised, open-mouthed woman down onto his lap. The headline read: “Unlike some people, Belvedere always goes down smoothly.” Decent people got the skeevies and called the ad out as rapey. Belvedere quickly tweeted that they were sorry “if any of our fans were […]
I’m on the fence about this ad for Equinox, an upscale gym with locations in Los Angeles, New York City, and elsewhere. On the one hand, I’m not keen on the juxtaposition within advertisement — that the woman herself is a “joy ride” (despite the fact she is freezing in that outfit) or that riding […]
