Advertising
Armpit-vertising
Japan's Wakino Ad Company has announced that it plans to start selling advertising space on the armpits of young women. And it's already got a customer: a beauty treatment chain that will be advertising its underarm hair removal procedure.The company website
via Sora News 24
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jul 25, 2018 -
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Category: Advertising
Follies of the Madmen #376
A quick hit of sugar at bedtime will send those kiddies straight to slumberland!
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 25, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Children, Soda, Pop, Soft Drinks and other Non-Alcoholic Beverages, 1930s
A Forecast of Amazon?
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 23, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Retailing, Futurism, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #375
"You like your booze so much, why don't you marry her?"
"Thanks! I think I will!"
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 21, 2018 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Wives, 1940s, Alcohol
Virginia Slims Clothing
Dress in the tribal garments of your tobacco goddess.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 20, 2018 -
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Category: Fashion, Tobacco and Smoking, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Women, Twentieth Century
Eddie the Elegant Elephant
The elephant was brought to Marshall Fields in Chicago as a publicity stunt. She was to rubber stamp copies of a new children's book called THE ELEGANT ELEPHANT. Unfortunately, the elephant did not want to get back on the elevator to leave the building after the book signing. They were forced to build a ramp to the third floor for the elephant to walk down to leave Marshall Field's.
Read the story at much greater length, with many pix, here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 15, 2018 -
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Category: Animals, Advertising, Retailing, Books, 1940s
Follies of the Madmen #374
Advertising trumps Nature every time!
From The American Legion Magazine for June 1947.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 14, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Nature, 1940s, Alcohol
Follies of the Madmen #373
Somehow, anti-knock engine supplement conflated with performing saintly miracles.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 07, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Motor Vehicles, Religion, 1930s
The CGI of 1985
1985 Clio Award winning Television commercial done for Canned Foods Information Council by San Francisco ad agency of Ketchum Communications. [This] spot, "Brilliance," won in Computer Animation category and featured a voice-over by motion picture star, Kathleen Turner.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 06, 2018 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Business, Advertising, Food, Robots, Computers, Special Effects, 1980s
Follies of the Madmen #372
Sentient cigarette fulfills its duties as matchmaker, despite dying an excruciating fiery death.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 30, 2018 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Tobacco and Smoking, 1930s
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