Viral Ad of the Day: Hello ladies. Isaiah Mustafa, the man your man doesn’t look like but could possibly smell like is back in a brand new Old Spice spot that’s sure to swan dive into your hearts.
He’s on a motorcycle.
[oldspice.]
Yesss. A+
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Viral Ad of the Day: Hello ladies. Isaiah Mustafa, the man your man doesn’t look like but could possibly smell like is back in a brand new Old Spice spot that’s sure to swan dive into your hearts.
He’s on a motorcycle.
[oldspice.]
Yesss. A+
Big Bang Lollipop 2 CF (30 seconds)
I’m getting a new phone ASAP when I’m back. Too many options!
I used to like the Super Bowl because, as an ad major, it meant we would spend the next day watching and talking about the ads in all of my classes. (Although it’s not as if we were doing hard work on any other day of class.) Otherwise, football is the worst sport ever, and I care much more about having an excuse to eat a bunch of junk food than I ever will about any NFL team. I’m also too weirdly obsessed with pop culture to miss out on a night of potential wardrobe-malfunctions.
That being said, the game tonight was actually really good. I decided to cheer for the Saints, only because I actually knew who two of the players were (Pierre Thomas played for Illinois and Reggie Bush is dating Kim Kardashian). Whatever. Ended up being a good choice.
I also liked a lot of the ads, more than I had the past few years. Particularly, the Google one above, Dove for men, the Audi Green Police, and this Coke one. Yeeeah, advertising!
Burmese commercials. It’s from 2001, but they haven’t gotten any better. Excellent.
… is the best. And by best I mean absolute worst, making it hilarious. The first time I had to wait at an airport here, I sat watching commercials on the TV, completely transfixed on how terrible they are. The billboards are no better.
It seems like the equation for a good ad here is: guy + girl doing something completely unrelated to the product.
Examples:
- Guy and girl in wedding attire, on a boat. (Coffee)
- Guy and girl on a pier. (Tea)
- Guy digging a hole, girl laughing? (Coffee)
- Girl washing a car, guy watching. (Shampoo)
Etc. I will hunt down a YouTube video when I’m in a country where it is no longer blocked.
Seoul came up with a new advertising campaign, and on their website they have four different videos for their different target audiences. Despite the fact that I hate awkward English voices like these that sound so friendly they verge on creepy, I think they actually did a good job picking their target markets and appealing to them. I’ve read a lot about how Korea sucks at marketing itself, and that it isn’t perceived well among people who haven’t been here, so it’s good Seoul is trying something new. ”Infinitely yours” is rather generic, as most tourism taglines are, but as someone who has lived here for a year I think it’s pretty fitting. There really are infinite things to do here, and I feel like there’s so much I will never experience.
Advertising, yay.
OFFICIAL DARA & LEE MINHO CASS CF/MV
Teen idols used to advertise beer. No wonder my students say their favorite drink is soju! (Really, they do. Jokingly I hope.)
In the first couple of seconds of this new version of the LG Lollipop TV commercial (Hat Tip), singer G-Dragon (of the group Big Bang) makes a gesture that, unbeknownst to him, is an allusion to oral sex.
(I stole all this from here)
Ha, oh my.
North Korea launched a beer commercial. It’s pretty awesome: music that sounds like it came from a video game from the 80s, text transitions, shots of the ocean, women serving beer in hanboks, and echoing voices informing us about this wonderful mekju. A+
(Click the picture to go to the link and video.)
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