DailyDirt: Duh... Ads Are Supposed To Change People's Minds
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Ads can be controversial sometimes -- designed to attract attention. Most ads catch your eye with attractive people or shocking images, but the "best" ads also stick in your mind and remind you who the actual sponsor was. We're always interested in "good" ads (not the ads that get attention for how hated they are). So here, we've found some interesting ad-related articles and videos that demonstrate how ads can be entertaining.The BBC picks 6 ads that it thinks changed the world. Don't worry: "Apply directly to the forehead" didn't make the cut. [url] If you could save an online banner ad for later, would you? This sounds like a really bad copy of Instapaper.... [url] LEGO has made a couple interesting short films. But still, I always forget that it's not Legos. [url] Can any kind of internet meme effectively sell a mobile phone? If so, let loose the CaTz of advertising. [url]
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a 20 year old joke .... based on McDonalds
During the ride, Lester T sat in the back picking at his feet while the others looked at him with disgust.
When the bus driver finished his route, he was asked how his day was by one of his co-workers.
“It reminded me of McDonalds” said the bus driver. Two obese Patties, Special Ross, Lester T pickin’ his bunyons on a Sesame Street bus.
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Re: a 20 year old joke .... based on McDonalds - Mine's Worse
The bank manager overhears the conversation in his office next store and being a huge Stones fan realizes that the frog was indeed the one adopted by Mr. Jagger as described in an article he had read in a fan magazine and hears the loan officer's increasingly unimpressed tone and steps in to head off a potentially embarrassing media event. Calling her into his office she enters with the ceramic duck she was given and when confronted with the manager's question as to why she would not loan money to the frog Patti provides an obvious list of reasonable points as to why the frog does not qualify for a $10,000 overdraft. Finishing with a flourish she holds up the duck concluding, "And what the heck is this?"
The manager replies: "It's a nick-knack Patti Whack, give the frog a loan, his old man's a Rolling Stone."
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1. Decline and Fall of Global Media
2. More myths of Social Media marketing.
Laughed my ass off hitting the second link.
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adkeeper
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I know what people thought on that one.
If only some industries tried harder LoL
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