Entries Tagged as 'advertising'

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

What happens in Cairns, stays in Cairns

The Cairns Post reports that the tourist town of Cairns is trying to get nature lovers who visit the Great Barrier Reef to stay awhile and not just swim and raft and dive and leave.
Their new billboard slogan: “Get high, get wet and get laid.”

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Will CBS’s new Super Bowl ad(-vocacy) rules be outed as a fraud?

Now that CBS has come out with a more lenient policy regarding Super Bowl advertising, a gay dating site (ManCrunch) also wants to play.

Watch ManCrunch Super Bowl Ad in Sexy  |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

Monday, January 18th, 2010

‘Cougar’ ad angers humorless New Zealanders

No idea how it helps make people fly Air New Zealand, but it’s funny.

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

Tom Ford Eyewear: The better to see breasts with

Carolyn Murphy and Nicholas Hoult try to sell glasses. In this case, the glasses are definitely half full.

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Moscow traffic snarled by true gaper delay

From the Associated Press:
It’s rare when rubber-necking calls for an actual rubber, but late-night traffic on one of Moscow’s busiest highways crawled to a halt yesterday when an electronic billboard stopped showing its regularly scheduled messages and aired a two-minute pornographic video.
The billboard owner said a hacker was to blame.
No accidents were reported but one [...]

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Dangerous when sweat: Eva Mendes gets hot for Calvin Klein

Like sands under an hourglass . . . Eva Mendes frolics with Jamie Dornan. Does it really matter what they’re selling?

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Meet the new face of Emporio Armani: Megan Fox

We said “Face.” “Face.” Look at her “Face.”

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

Porn Star Sasha Grey for PETA

Same message Bob Barker used to give on “The Price Is Right.” Thank goodness Sasha did the ad.

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Shopper complains lingerie sale sucks, store says ‘blow me’

U.K. adult retailer Ann Summers has apologized for offending a shopper with a storefront window display, London’s Daily Mail reports, but it did not say it would remove sale sign.
Kevin Gooch, who was shocked by the image when went shopping with his young son (hopefully not at Ann Summers) said in a letter to the Harrow Times, [...]

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Porn star unzips for American Apparel

Trying to make an advertising splash for its zipper-front, one-piece, bodysuit, American Apparel has hired porn star/actress/model Charlotte Stokely to, well, unzip it.
You can see the uncensored ad here. You can next see Charlotte at the Sundance Film Festival, as one of the hot stars in the blaxploitation homage, “Black Dynamite.”
PS: If Charlotte’s AA ad doesn’t [...]