Is there a word for the irrational and/or rational fear of becoming the target of direct marketers?
Advertisaphobia? Adverphobia? Adphobia? Ad-phobia?
From October 2008… this post was caught in WordPress limbo. I publish it now, well after this NYC microtrend has gone national, if not global. The questions remain the same, the scope has just increased…
I’ve noticed a new NYC microtrend of people wearing billowy checkered cotton scarfs around their necks. They remind me distinctly [...]
It’s funny because it’s true.
2012!! In your face advertising! – watch more funny videos
Right… so the penguins are loosing their habitat, so what is the solution? DRINK!
Denial and commerce: it is the American way.
Marisa pointed out this hilarious SPAM FAIL. After registering for free tickets to a concert, she was prompted to pay $25… for “xxxxx” spam. Really. Pay for spam. Though it is so badly mangled that it is unclear if they were selling advertising or selling spam. Overall, total spam FAIL
I know, total cliche’d title. Oh well.
I bought carbon offsets on a Continental flight. I particularly like the fact that you could choose your own science… and your own cost…
I really wonder about offsetting. For a while I thought of it as a useful costing mechanism. And planting trees is a [...]
Um, a picture (of words) is worth a thousand words:
Do I even have to explain why this is so retrograde? Oh Facebook.
Or, maybe it might work… do pledges work? I know that competition has been shown to work in reducing energy use.
Tap’dNY bills itself as
a New York City bottled water company with a local twist and knack for honesty. We don’t travel the world from Fiji to France seeking water or offer the usual bottled water gimmicks. We work with NYC’s public water system to source the world’s best tasting tap water, purify it through reverse [...]
Olympic ad wrap up: We at the AAA can’t have much of an olympic ad piss party because we were so disgusted by the political and social justice issues surrounding the olympics themselves. We were too busy watching our friends and allies get abused, detained and harassed while most tv viewers drooled over [...]
We’re supposed to have viewed Stephen Colbert’s “Dr. Pepper Interview” with Lucas Conley, author of Obsessive Branding Disorder, as a hilarious detournement on the subject of Conley’s book, our nation’s ever-increasing need for brand mentions. But all I got out of the interview—yes, difficult to parse through all the hilarious jokes about brands, ha ha—was [...]
