Tag Archives: advertising

Life After Television

There’s a whole website for it too.

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Drinking Fat

Mayor Bloomberg’s office is getting local heat and national press for the below television campaign to convince New Yorkers to drink less soda. It’s really really disgusting. You have been warned.

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Virgin Mobile’s New Gay Ad Campaign

Virgin Mobile has launched an ad campaign in Canada featuring two male models in a kiss. The tagline: “Hook up fearlessly.” The ad has already appeared on bus shelters. Agency of record Juniper Park created the new work to extend the “Fearless” positioning introduced in September. New brand-focused television, print and out-of-home ads encourage consumers to “hook up fearlessly” with …

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Full-Page Ad Against “Ex-Gay” Preacher Donnie McClurkin Runs In NYC

The Black Gay Men’s Network today published a full-page ad in the NYC daily newspaper Metro in reaction to attacks on the LGBT community by black clergy and in response to “ex-gay” preacher Donnie McClurkin’s recent outrageous and hateful rantings, which were posted to YouTube. It reads in part: Pastor Donnie McClurkin -We love you brother and in ways the …

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AFA Suspends Gap Boycott

Saying they are going on “good faith” that a coming ad from Gap properly acknowledges Christmas, the American Family Association is suspending their boycott of the company’s three retail chains. But only until they see the commercial. Via press release: According to Bill Chandler, vice-president of Gap corporate communications, Gap’s Old Navy division will launch a new television commercial this …

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Gay Pagan Witches Will Abort Your Kids!

The Maine Family Policy Council has picked up the American Family Association’s “witchcraft” charge against Gap’s holiday commercial. Aaaand somehow it all becomes about abortion and euthanasia. Oh! And don’t forget the witchcraft of gay marriage! Solstice is a holiday celebrated by “pagans,” and paganism is repackaged witchcraft, and witchcraft slowly darkens, withers, and kills the human soul. Modern day …

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First Nationwide Atheism Campaign Launches In Washington DC

The above ad campaign from the American Humanist Association kicks off on DC’s transit system this week and expands to bus and subway systems in New York, LA, SF, and Chicago next week. This is the first ever nationwide campaign promoting atheism in America. Roy Speckhardt, executive director of the American Humanist Association, explained, “We’re hoping this campaign will build …

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NBC Turns Down PETA’s Attempt To Ruin Everybody’s Thanksgiving

NBC has turned down PETA’s request to ruin Thanksgiving. Hey, NBC: We’d like to know … if a family-friendly announcement against abusing turkeys (who live in dark, ammonia-filled sheds where workers clip their beaks, break their legs and wings, and crush their heads) doesn’t meet your standards, then what does? When we first submitted our newest commercial to NBC in …

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Is This GAP’s “Fuck You” To The American Family Association?

After being targeted with a boycott by the American Family Association as an anti-Christian retailer, GAP began airing a commercial that does use the word “Christmas.” But it also mentions Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and the pagan-y Winter Solstice. It even says you should celebrate however “you wannukah.” MEOW. The ad’s been running for a least a week and popped up on …

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Poll: 48% Would Pay For Online News

But they wouldn’t pay very much. Among regular Internet users in the United States, 48 percent said in the survey, conducted in October, that they would pay to read news online, including on mobile devices. That result tied with Britain for the lowest figure among nine countries where Boston Consulting commissioned surveys. In several Western European countries, more than 60 …

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AFA Expands “Christmas” Hit List

After last week announcing a boycott of all stores under the GAP umbrella because its three chains don’t use the word “Christmas” in their holiday ads, this weekend the American Family Association published an expanded list of national retailers “for and against Christmas.” Based on current advertising, below is a list of companies that avoid, ban, or use the term …

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Cincinnati: Threats Force Removal Of Atheism Billboard

Two days after it went up, yesterday a Cincinnati billboard promoting atheism was removed after the landlord of its site received “multiple serious threats.” The group that funded the billboard, the United Coalition of Reason, was contacted by Lamar Advertising of Cincinnati. Lamar reported that the landowner of the site had been threatened over the billboard’s message and wanted it …

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Blind Link

The Sword (NSFW) points us to this ad presently on the Arts section homepage of the New York Times. Not saying anything more about it, other than “Hole-y cow!”

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Today In Music Marketing

Weezer is selling its own branded Snuggie. Oh, and it comes with their new album, Raditude. A sign of the continuing decline of music retail? Or brilliant marketing?

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Orizon?

Hmm. I see some product called Orizon has popped up in my far right ad column* this morning, claiming it “inhibits HIV-virus activity.” Anybody know anything about that? I don’t want any quack treatments promoted on this here website thingy. I’m not saying Orizon is such a product, yet, but maybe somebody out there knows the deal. *Normally I have …

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U.S. Census Reaches Out To Philadelphia’s Gays For 2010 Count

The U.S. Census Bureau has placed yellow stickers on the current issue of the Philadelphia Gay News in a test run of an ad campaign encouraging LGBT folks to participate. Via Advocate: The October 9-15 edition of the weekly paper features a yellow sticker advertisement placed prominently on the upper right-hand corner of the page. It reads, “By filling out …

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Good Without God

Starting this Monday, NYC’s subway riders will see an ad campaign for atheism with the tagline “A million New Yorkers are good without God. Are You?” The posters also advertise the Web site BigAppleCoR.org, which provides a listing of local groups affiliated with the Coalition of Reason, the umbrella organization that coordinated the campaign. The campaign — which is being …

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Levi Johnston Goes Nuts

Towleroad points out this new ad campaign featuring Levi Johnston, who is wisely not allowed to speak. Love the last line.

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Mormon Paper Refuses To Run Memorial Service Ad For Gay Suicides

The Mormon Church-owned Deseret News is refusing to run an ad for a memorial service for gay Mormons who’ve committed suicide. MediaOne, which handles advertising for both the News and The Salt Lake Tribune , accepted payment from the nonprofit Foundation for Reconciliation to run an ad, announcing a memorial service this Sunday, in both papers. But on Wednesday, a …

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South African Strip Club Billboard Mocks Champion Sprinter Caster Semanya

This cruel billboard mocking Caster Semanya was posted by a South African strip club chain. Ad Week reports: Not surprisingly, the billboard drew complaints, at which Teazers owner Lolly Jackson scoffed at length. He first said the Semenya situation was “the furthest thing from my mind” when he made the ad. Then he added: “I do not want anyone coming …

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