Advertising
Follies of the Mad Men #173
The Rolling Stones for Rice Krispies.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 05, 2012 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Music, 1960s
Follies of the Mad Men #172
Our brand of liquor will destroy your country and its most cherished landmarks.
What? That's not the message you intended?
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 28, 2011 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, South America, Fictional Monsters, Alcohol
Follies of the Mad Men #171
Yeah, sure--it's 1973 and all your hippie pals are going to give up dope for whiskey just because the maker decorated the boxes like outtakes from Yellow Submarine.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 24, 2011 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Cartoons, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1970s, Alcohol
Follies of the Mad Men #170
Now that PBR is a hipster beer, I wonder if they will revive this old ad campaign which is like some Twilight Zone episode where humans have been turned into hideous 2-D ribbons.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 15, 2011 -
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Category: Aliens, Body Modifications, Business, Advertising, Products, 1940s, Alcohol
Follies of the Mad Men #169
You saw the Janus-faced cat. You saw the Janus-faced baby. But little did you think that such mutants could grow up to have a profitable career in advertising!
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 11, 2011 -
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Category: Body, Business, Advertising, Products, Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, 1950s
Follies of the Mad Men #168
"Why, yes, sir, I was just about to xerox my butt!"
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 06, 2011 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Technology, Sex Symbols, 1970s
Banned Advert
Explanation here.
Watch it quick, before it's yanked.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 02, 2011 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Celebrities, Government, Diplomacy and Foreign Relations, Officials, Humor, Africa
Mystery Ad
What product is being touted by this curious pronouncement?
Find out here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 01, 2011 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, 1930s, Brain
Follies of the Mad Men #167
[Click to enlarge. From Esquire for February 1958.]
1) You are using a childrens' picture-book icon to advertise an adult product. Why not employ the Grinch to sell booze?
2) Even if some parent found this ad to be cute when presented with it in some other forum, you are running it in Esquire, a magazine which, prior to the debut of Playboy, was Swinging Bachelor Hangout #1.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 23, 2011 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Literature, Children, 1950s, Europe, Cars
Bubblegum Love
David Lobser // MTV 'Bubblegum Love' from Blacklist on Vimeo.
The attack of the flying butts.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 16, 2011 -
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Category: Aliens, Business, Advertising, Surrealism
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