bigbangandkpop:

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.

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.

bigbangandkpop:

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.)

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big bang 2nd hite cf

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I still can’t get over the fact that teen idols are advertising alcohol.  I also don’t get why Seung Ri isn’t in this commercial since he is now Korean age 20, and the drinking age is 19 (Western age 17-18)?  And what is with G-Dragon looking like a 16 year old girl lately?