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Tom McCarthy for The Guardian: After building a political campaign that was long on passion and grassroots support, if ultimately short of votes, Texas congressman Paul announced today that he is...
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Microsoft readies NUads: They watch you watching them Declan McCullagh, CNET: “The innovation that we’re seeing is absolutely incredible,” [Lyn] Watts said. Kinect, he said, can allow advertisers to...
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On the plus side, I never had any desire to buy Vitaminwater to begin with, so this commercial doesn’t make me any less likely to. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
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Just For Men continues to have the worst commercials on television. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
View ArticleHow Companies Learn Your Secrets
How Companies Learn Your Secrets I missed this New York Times piece by Charles Duhigg back in February about Target’s tracking of customers. Which was probably for the best, because reading it caused...
View ArticleDecades of Miss Subways smiled on NYC straphangers
Decades of Miss Subways smiled on NYC straphangers Associated Press article: It was an ad campaign conceived as eye candy to bring attention to other advertisements in New York’s transit system. But...
View ArticleWikipedia: Alfred Chicken
Wikipedia: Alfred Chicken Alfred Chicken is an old platformer for a few systems: Game Boy, NES, etc. It apparently had an unusual advertising campaign in the United Kingdom, according to Wikipedia:...
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Here’s a bunch of bad 2012 apocalypse jokes followed by Betty White saying “deal with it.” (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
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This is a promo for Ron Paul, “The High Tide,” from 2008 that I only just found now. According to the copy, it was created by a “small group of dedicated grassroots artists,” so it was apparently not...
View ArticleChicago detected – Change is in the Air (American Airlines commercial)
I’d like to apologize to our readers for having gone more than a year without an update in our award-winning series cataloging uses of the typeface Chicago in the wild. I’m pleased to announce that you...
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