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Ad legend David Ogilvy treats his fans to three classic anonymous ditties in Ogilvy on Advertising:

Rodger Morrow has some two decades’ experience in business and political communications. Here. he summarizes the Presidential election in few, but precise terms...

Unredefeated

First President Bush was misunderestimated.

Now he has been unredefeated.

No matter which side of the electorate you are on, you must admit this is a pretty clever take on the election.

Adrants finds another clever ad agency using videos to promote there own message about advertising...

"We've all worked with those pompous, obnoxious, self-important brand managers who just can't keep there hands out of the creative process, offering nothing but useless brand blather. In this new video called Transformational Marketing, part of Aquent's Design Out Loud series, this full-of-himself brand manager goes through an interesting transformation of his own while berating his creatives, butchering a perfectly good ad and, at the same time, calling attention to some of the more annoying creative practices such as the insistence on using fancy, hard to read type, tiny logos and a lot of white space. It's not clear whether he's a bad trick or just the treat this creative team needs."

"Guinness has sold cans for 10 years, but most buyers still pour it into a glass to get what he calls the brown brew's "surge" and creamy foam head. Bottles rolled out in 2001, but only recently have been pushed. They contain a "Rocket Widget" that releases nitrogen to mimic in the bottle the texture and head of Guinness on tap.

The idea might not be rocket science, but according to Guinness marketers it's "brilliant!" That's the theme for their $14 million ad campaign to promote the "brilliance" of bottling Guinness.

"It seems ridiculous that we would have to tell people to drink from a bottle," Parsons says. But for bottle sales to succeed, "we absolutely had to give them a message that tells them to drink it straight from a bottle."

The ads feature two animated Irish brewmasters with the faces from real — but long deceased — men available in stock photographs. Styled in the spirit of Monty Python, the ads mix cartoon and live action.

In the ads by BBDO, New York, the brewers compare the simplicity of drinking Guinness from a bottle with other simple inventions, such as sliced bread and can openers. The concept was created by the BBDO team on the train on the way to Diageo's office to pitch other Guinness ads. "Brilliant" made the cut once the team acted out the storyline.

In one ad, a brewmaster explains that he has discovered a way to fill a bottle with authentic Guinness draft. His colleague says it's "brilliant!" to be able to drink beer straight from the bottle. In another, one brewmaster explains that they fill "the bottle with authentic Guinness draft. We walk outside. We bring it to a party and drink it." In a third ad, one brewmaster explains that he's "figured out how to carry six beers at the same time" (bottles in a six-pack). His colleague: "Carry six beers at the same time? Brilliant!"

Today I was wandering around the CraigsList site and I ran across this unusual but clever approach to becoming a millionaire...

need your help

Reply to: anon-42590746@craigslist.org
Date: 2004-09-15, 10:17PM EDT


Help me become a Millionaire by sending One Dollar to:
B.A.
P.O. BOX54065
Hurst, Tx. 76054

Thanks in advance :)

And to top it off I found it in the resume listing!

I would love to be able to track this guy's progress. Just think...if he gets 100 million people to see his posting and 1% respond, he wins...along with the post office making $370,000 in stamp sales!

An old joke that begs to be a viral beer ad:

Difficult, very difficult, downright impossible

THINGS THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN YOU'RE DRUNK:
- Indubitably
- Innovative
- Preliminary
- Proliferation
- Cinnamon

THINGS THAT ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN YOU'RE DRUNK:
- Specificity
- British Constitution
- Passive-aggressive disorder
- Loquacious Transubstantiate

THINGS THAT ARE DOWNRIGHT IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY WHEN YOU'RE DRUNK:
- Thanks, but I don't want to have sex.
- Nope, no more beer for me.
- Sorry, but you're not really my type.
- Good evening officer, isn't it lovely out tonight.
- Oh, I just couldn't. No one wants to hear me sing .

JibJab has produced a parody of the current presidential candidates that has received unparalleled broadcast media attention. Every major national news network showed parts of this clever and witty animation during the prime time news programs, and many local stations repeated it.

"My name is Steve Hall. I've created Adrants to give coverage to some of the more unique and odd forms of advertising that have separated themselves from the standard fare and to comment on the changes traditional media can and should be making to remain competitive and avoid extinction.

Reporting on the brilliance and idiocy of the media and advertising industry, Adrants offers subversive comment on the questionable, the absurd, the new and the noteworthy. Everything from new campaign launches to useful facts and figures to odd little items from the fringe are delivered with wit, humor and sarcasm."

Nick Gados tipped us to a Boing Boing posting about Burger King's bizarre new campaign. Takes "Have it Your Way" to a weird new level. Check out Subservient Chicken!

Thanks Nick!

This has nothing to do with anything but mild amusement. Check out the frog game if you're bored. from Coolios

Trojan Condoms attracted significant traffic to its web site using very clever and humorous short “films”.  Check out the Trojan Games.

Caution, contains adult themes.