advertising jokes

Cracked.com just listed: The 5 Creepiest Advertising Techniques of the (Near) Future - bless the little sods for looking over their stats and realizing that the "5-lists" bring them traffic so that they could bring us this.

They freak us with the funny, as when they say:

Google is already working on customizing its search results based on your personal browsing history, which requires only that it maintains a comprehensive database of every single thing you've ever tried to find on the web.
No big deal, right? After all, it's not like it would be embarrassing for you if all this information ever got out. You know, like when AOL made that information public on millions of its customers.

This reminds little ol' me of when I witnessed one of the fellas from Chaos Computer Club hold a lecture at HIP97. He explained that credit cards will "eventually hold all information about me" -- "and you"- so therefore; "I go out of my way to fuck up the system. I rent those (porn) films in a hotel rooms even when I'm not in the hotel room." (laughter from audience) "No, because I don't rent those films!" (loud cackling from audience)

In an awesome parody (good voice copy!) of Man Vs Wild, here's Man Vs BANNER ADS! Yes, those banner ads can be deadly, at least to your OS.

If you laugh at this, you are a font nerd.

Also, don't miss part two. Hat tip to the Bold kids.

I've been very amused by Creative beef: Game Time idea for a ad agency based mmorpg, where Art Directors weild the xacto-knife of doom, Copywriters have smart-ass blogs, Account Execs have the super power suit, Producers weild unbreakable SAG contracts, Media Buyers wave Knicks' tickets about, and Traffic can pull out The lost creative brief from their arsenal.

Now, if we place this game in crazy open landscape agencies and famous buildings such as the Chiat/Day Venice of the nineties, Kesselskramer's church or the mushroom woods of Young & Rubicam in Portugal - I'm all set!

Can someone please get on making this game? Pretty please? It's my birthday today and that's all momma wants.

P.S. For droolworthy ad agency interiors, check out This Ain't No Disco.

He's got an MSI Wind, no wait, he's got an Asus Eee PC.... No, wait of course, it's none of the above but rather an iBook if you check the original Getty Image. What we know the ad creators did get was 'royalty free image'. Oh you silly silly people, don't let the suits do that to you.

Here's another one for you lot who love to giggle at phallic logos.

This is the new logo for the UK Office of Government Commerce.

This is the logo turned 90 degrees

The Register says that a spokesman gamely explained:

"The proposed version, which you have sent over, has been shared with staff, and is now going through final technical stages. It is true that it caused a few titters among some staff when viewed on its side, but on consideration we concluded that the effect was generic to the particular combination of the letters 'OGC' - and is not inappropriate to an organisation that's looking to have a firm grip on government spend!"

David Jones brings us another Adland cartoon. Dibs on the designery glasses!

Ah yes, those who have been paying attention know that I'm a tad preoccupied with phallic looking logos. Or things that sound dirty in another language in advertising. yes yes, I know, I'm such a child, and I won't grow up.

So Caff decided in her infinite wisdom when she saw this logo to snap it and send the shot to me. I'm sorry, but I can't stop laughing, is that a phallus symbol firmly planted with balls or a nicely streamlined design of a hand flipping the bird? I wonder if the receptionist ever answers the phone with "Good morning, The Fucker company Ltd".

This just in: Adland will kill us all!

And how apropos the news is reported from CHICAGO where at least ad agencies seem to be dying lately:

He said the first victim was a young man who had a web design job at a communications department, and worked for a well respected university. "He was perfectly fine when he went to work," Rathburg said in a telephone interview.
"After about 15 minutes, he had an acute case of gnarles barking cough and collapsed on the floor. The autopsy clearly indicates he died from exposure to adland," said Rathburg, who would not disclose the man's name or the precise place and time of his death for privacy reasons.

Contact with, or even being in the proximity of adland is known to trigger acute farty residue, screaming whoopers, and a deadly soup of bacteria called gumbo that shoots out of your nostrils

How's this for a pop-cultural meta-meta-meta-meta April Fools joke: Youtube has Rickrolled all the featured videos on their homepage.

No wai? Yes, wai! Srsly. Hat tip to adgrunt Brandon.

And somewhere in Denmark, Rick is laughing really loud.