A Cool Apartment Leads to Hot Sex, Say Brokerage Ads
Creativity
New ads from a brokerage firm in New York City aren't overly sophisticated in their pitch to young professional males. The message: Land the right apartment, and sleep with more [...]
New KGB ads turn to stereotypes and sex
Creativity
Info-by-text service KGB has a new line of commercials that range from the arguably racist spot shown above to the sophomoric (“Melons”) to the just plain stupid (“Bet Your Skirt”). [...]
Perrier had that fake Sprite ad beat in 1976
Creativity
With everyone from Perez Hilton to Ryan Seacrest (or at least their respective lackeys) getting worked up over that dimwittedly sexual and blatantly fake Sprite ad yesterday, it was nice [...]
Flying trash apparently gets everyone horny
Creativity
McCann Paris should be lauded for this Durex condoms ad, in which the wrapper wafts in the breeze, leaving intense sexual desire in its wake. Since the tagline roughly translates [...]
‘Banned’ Sprite ad unleashes a load of buzz
Creativity
It’s a fact of the advertising industry that roughly 99% of those “banned” ads you see on the Web were never banned at all — or even intended to be [...]
Coverage of MPA’s American Magazine Conference
Publishing Executive Inbox Editor Matt Steinmetz attended MPA’s “American Magazine Conference” in Boca Raton, Fla. this week, where he sat in on Monday and Tuesday’s conference sessions and events.MONDAY, OCTOBER [...]