Archive for the tag "advertising"
Wikileaks Petition – Urgent
GetUp needs 100,000 signatures for its Wikileaks petition before its ad goes in the NY Times. If you wanted to do something about Julian Assange this can be it
Posted: 15 December, 2010 in Aussie Citizenship, Australian Politics, Australian Values, legal, Life, politics and government, US Politics, values.
Tags: activism, advertising, Assange, Australian legal values, Australian Values, GetUp, justice, law, legal, legal values, New York Times, nyt, United States, US, USA, WikiLeaks
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Another Brilliant TED Talk
Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man
Posted: 9 October, 2010 in comedy/humour, Economics, Education, environment, fun, History, Internet, Language, Media, Medicine, politics and government, values, Video.
Tags: ad man, advertising, agriculture, Ataturk, cell, comedy, Economics, economy, Education, entertainment, environment, Frederick the Great, hummer, humor, humour, hybrid, Internet, Life, marketing, Media, Medicine, mobile, potato, press, Prius, Prussia, Rory Sutherland, social media, TED, TED talks, value, values, Video
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How Stupid Are We?
Forget al Qaeda. The real terrorists are … GERMS. But don’t worry! There’s a real War on Terror going on. Dettol has a new product for germ-terrorised mums.
Posted: 19 September, 2010 in Life, Media, Science, values.
Tags: advertising, bacteria, branding, cleanliness, commerce, cynicism, dettol, DETTOL No-Touch Hand Wash System, fear, germs, hand wash, health, liquid soap, manufacturing, marketing, mothers, mums, positioning, product, Reckitt Benckiser, stupidity, terrorism
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Immaculately Conceived – the Ad They Banned
This ad was banned because a pregnant nun might be seen as a mockery of Catholics’ beliefs. How about, the beliefs of Roman Catholics deserve to be mocked?
Posted: 18 September, 2010 in Art, comedy/humour, Life, Media, Religion, Sex, values.
Tags: advertising, advertising standards, ASA, bugger, buggery, Catholic, catholics, Federici, ice cream, immaculate conception, immaculately conceived, marketing, nun, offence, offense, offensive, Pope, rape, rapist, Religion, religious values, Roman catholic, sodomise, sodomy
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The Stiglitz Perspective on the Economic Spin
Columbia University Professor and Nobel laureate economist, Joseph Stiglitz, says he is very unimpressed by the hysteria over the “great big debt and deficit”.
Posted: 7 August, 2010 in audio, Australian Politics, Australian Values, Economics, Media, politics and government, US Politics, values.
Tags: ABC, advertising, audio, Australian economic values, australian election, Australian political values, Australian Politics, Australian Values, campaign, commercial, debt, deficit, Economics, economist, economy, election, federal election, GFC, Hockey, Joe Hockey, mp3, Nobel, PM, politics, Stiglitz, tv, US economy, US Politics
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Election Odds – 4 August
Odds looking slightly more optimistic for Labor than a couple of days ago. Free fall has been slowed down for the moment.
Posted: 4 August, 2010 in Australian Politics, Media, politics and government, values.
Tags: 4 August, Abbott, advertising, agency, August, August 4, australia, australian election, Australian political value, Australian Politics, Australian Values, betfair, betting, betting market, Big Red Communications Group, Centrebet, Chris Dewey, coalition, election, election campaign, federal election, gambling, George Steiner, Gillard, IASBet, Labor, Liberal, Loughnane, LuxBet, market, National, politics, polls, sportingbet, Sportsbet, statistics, Ted Horton, values, WBX
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The Onion: New Google Phone Ad Service
New Google Phone Service Whispers Targeted Ads Directly Into Users’ Ears
Posted: 21 May, 2010 in comedy/humour, Computing, Internet, Life, Media.
Tags: advertisement, advertising, Google, Google phone, Onion, Onion News
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OMG! OMG! OMG!
Hidden stains! Nasty, embarrassing stains that no-one can see! Because they’re hidden? As a wife and mother, how can I live with the thought of invisible stains
Posted: 27 March, 2010 in Australian Values, comedy/humour, Culture, fun, Media, Religion, Sex, values.
Tags: advertising, Australian Values, commercial, family, family values, feminism, old-fashioned values, persuasion, sex roles, sexism, social modelling, television
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Hair Colour Company Makes Scientific Breakthrough!
Clairol, the home hair colour company has clearly been involving itself in pure science and advanced our understanding of the fundamentals of our universe(s).
Posted: 13 February, 2010 in Australian Values, comedy/humour, Science, values.
Tags: advertising, Australian Hair and Scalp Foundation, clairol, dimensions, false advertising, head and shoulders, M-theory, Procter and Gamble, pure research, research, scientific values, string theory, values, xkcd
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Clean Coal? New Gen Coal?
GetUp! says the answer to the coal industry attempt at rebranding “clean coal” is to rebrand their rebranding. “The good news is we have just the ad to do it.”
Posted: 12 October, 2009 in Australian Politics, Australian Values, Blogging, Economics, environment, Media, politics and government, Science, Video.
Tags: advertising, Australian coal associatoin, Australian Politics, Australian Values, branding, clean coal, climate change, coal, coal 2.0, coal industry, coal lobby, cost, emiisions, emissions trading scheme, energy lobby, environmental values, ETS, Get Up, GetUp, global warming, government, green, green coal, Greens, lobby, lobbyists, Media, new coal, new gen coal, political values, politics, pollution, renewable energy, values
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