Category Archives: advertising

best wtt* ad ever

Remember when the guy came back to the present time after stepping on the butterfly in Bradbury’s classic A Sound of Thunder and all the signage looked like this? *that’s…

more kijiji fun

The most puzzling thing about this ad is how someone who posesses enough unstupid to be able to successfully post an ad on kijiji doesn’t know how to spell “guitar”,…

no one asks me to write the ads i want to write

NB: the show is real, the ad is not.

more on Swiffer marketers

May I, just this once, out loud, say, to product marketing managers everywhere, particularly those responsible for marketing the Swiffer, in words that paraphrase David Milch, by way of Brad…

note to michael budman

If you didn’t have a stylist you should probably still tell people you did.

note to michael budman’s stylist

I just saw your work in the new indigo community ad, and two things occurred to me almost immediately: 1) oh yeah he’s the roots guy; and b) wow if…

iVejustabouthadenough

Default screen saver: RSS Visualizer. And do I care what is feeding it? Not really. It’s a screen saver. It runs when I’m not around. So I leave it on…

We promise not to be evil.
But we can’t speak for our lawyers.

Google’s oft-quoted credo “don’t be evil” started looking rather quaint last week with the appearance of a gentle suggestion on the Google blog that we try to refrain from using…