A parody of brand promotional clichés by stock footage company Dissolve – inspired by an article called ‘This Is A Generic Brand Video’ written by Kendra Eash for McSweeney’s Internet Tendancy.
Narrated by Dallas McClain.
Tag Archives: advertising
Legalled
at
Seems legit.
Tired of online advertisements?
Graphic designer Kim Taylor has the remedy.
One weird old trick. Nightmares for ever.
(The Adtruism troop, from left: Hannah McCarthy, Brian McCormick, Tim Delany and Gabriel Corcoran)
One of those oxymoron whatsits?
NO.
Hannah McCarthy (above left) writes:
In a nutshell, Adtruism is a social tech initiative that lets bloggers and website owners raise money for the causes they care about without spending any of their own money.
They can go on to the Adtruism website, select a cause they’d like to help such as the Make-A-Wish Foundation or UNICEF, then select a widget, place it on their website and then advertisers pay to display their advert through the widget. All the revenue then goes to the cause they’ve selected.
But who are you?
All of us working on the project have just graduated or are still in college so we really are all doing it because we think it’s important that our generation isn’t just a bunch of slacktivists mindlessly liking things like Kony2012 and that if they are able to do something about a cause, even if it’s just something small, that they do it.
Jaykers.
Do you have a promotional video?
Yes, here.
A fancy infographic?
Thank you.
Lunch Pr0n
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RWf5aj6sFo
Hamburg-based visual effects studio The Marmalade show off their mastery of custom rigs and high speed photography – all in the service of food and drink advertising.
Chikka-wah-wah, etc.
David Powell writes:
At an awards ceremony in the Mansion House [Dublin] last night, the best newspaper ad of 2012 went to Owens DDB for this ad on behalf of Volkswagen Ireland. The winner was selected by judges Matt Fitch and Mark Lewis of BBH London – who created the ‘3 little pigs’ ad for the Guardian.
French tax officials investigating links between Google’s French arm and its European head office in Dublin seized files during police raids at four Paris addresses linked to the company.
Google, which declares its European profits in Ireland, insists that all its advertising in the region is handled by staff based in Dublin and that Google France’s work is limited to “marketing assistance and service support”.
The arrangement means that while Google generated between €1.25 and €1.4 billion in revenue in France last year, according to estimates, it paid just over €5 million in corporate tax to the French exchequer.
Awkward.
Google files seized in Paris police raids (Ruadhán Mac Cormaic, Irish Times)
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
Before he became the world’s favourite children’s author, Theodore Seuss Geisel was an advertising illustrator, shilling all manner of goods from ball bearings to radio promotional spots, beer, and sugar.
Hey, everyone needs to make a buck.
There’s a huge collection of this early commercial work here.
Lodge your complaint against the ad company facilitating Youth Defence’s damaging, misleading campaign. Info here: tl.gd/hu367f
— Siren Magazine (@Siren_Magazine) June 20, 2012
By telling women that there is “always” (emphasised) a better option, and that abortion “tears” a woman’s life apart, this advertisement encourages and condones “dangerous behaviour or unsafe practices” as it discourages women from having an abortion in ANY circumstances, even when their lives are medically threatened as a result of the pregnancy.
Want to complain to JC Decaux?
Click here.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
Thanks Tom Lowe