The art of deception.
Something we all know—or should. Companies are very deceptive in the ways they attract you to their product.
They trick you into buying things that if you saw in reality would turn away.. McDonalds (and no doubt others) fake their photos of they meat-like burgers..
And there’s more.. Much much more.
I completely agree with the BLOODY DISGUSTING blog.. these ads for PS2 (like the one you see here) are just awful.. just sick.. disturbing.. almost too much.
But also strangely amazing, beautiful, and memorizing.
And I guess that is just how advertising is meant to be…
Except this one. This one really hits me the wrong way:
This is how NOT to advertise flying in the post Malaysian flight 370 world—an ad reminding people of how they may meet their doom in the vast Indian Ocean, the place where most think flight 370 ended up crashing and killing all aboard!
It’s a real ad, too..It was done by British Airways.. the INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES is featuring it in its latest online runs.. It was first posted by Twitter users fascinated by the stupidity of the advert..
And now the ad is being dropped, taken back.. as though it never existed.
I am sure British Airways most likely wishes it wasn’t..
Facebook is sweating, or it seems.. Apparently the intrusion of Moms and Grandmoms on the social media platform, spreading photos of their dogs and meals, has caused a revolt: Teens are abandoned Facebook to Tweet. Hence, Zuckerberg is becoming more like Twitter..
I don’t know if it will work—it may be too late to stop the bleeding.
Once a platform becomes uncool, kids leave it. That’s why JC Pennys and Sears are doing so awful…
The future is now: This article describes how a new device will soon turn transportation windows into ads by beaming sound into your brains .. this is not science fiction—and the news is being reported in mainstream sources. You will be receiving advertisements without even being aware of what it happening.. It’s all about money..
Face your fears.. drown them away.. take comfort in tea.
I enjoy herbal tea. I drink green tea as a matter of fact.. sometimes nighttime tea.. sometimes tummy tea. All that.
But watching horror movie icons, such as Pennywise the clown, drown in a hot cup of Herbaria is alarming.
Whatever happened to rustic pastures filled with green grass and purple mountains of majesty? Or the birds flying calmly over a sea of golden water as the sun sets. I can think of plenty more relaxing images than watching Pennywise die of drowning.. in your tea.
I get the concept. The ‘drown your fears ‘thing means to let go and just ….relax.
But relaxation and brutal images don’t go together well.
Horror movie fans may be fine with the concept. As for me it is not offensive at all. But for Herbaria’s marketing technique, I just don’t know how well this will work. A video of Pennywise dying on camera……and the message telling you to just relax. It just does not seem to work.
Advertising folks out there, or even tea drinkers, I’d love to hear your thoughts?
Yes it’s been around for months, but it’s starting to get more popular than ever: One of the strangest new gifts for this Christmas season coming now: Forever Lazy!
It looks lesslike a snuggy and more like the bunny outfit that Ralphie wears in CHRISTMAS STORY.. Maybe it’s the ultimate novel idea for a nudist who doesn’t like the cold in the morning.. hot tea with a full body soft suit..
It maybe this is the world’s way of connecting back to what they wore as children. The only thing lacking from the Forever Lazy are the plastic feet bottoms.. Which i’m sure isn’t far behind should the demand for such child-like contraptions for adults exist.
It promises warmth from head to toe.. and warmth, I’d guess, comes with no style.
Though the strangeness with this outfit abounds, I’ll predict with certainty: It’s going to fly off shelves like hotcakes. Or snuggies.
How is JC PENNEY able to get its store site to come up on Google when a user does a search for practically anything? It’s actually quite fascinating.. David Segal of the TIMES reports:
If you own a Web site, for instance, about Chinese cooking, your site’s Google ranking will improve as other sites link to it. The more links to your site, especially those from other Chinese cooking-related sites, the higher your ranking. In a way, what Google is measuring is your site’s popularity by polling the best-informed online fans of Chinese cooking and counting their links to your site as votes of approval.
But even links that have nothing to do with Chinese cooking can bolster your profile if your site is barnacled with enough of them. And here’s where the strategy that aided Penney comes in. Someone paid to have thousands of links placed on hundreds of sites scattered around the Web, all of which lead directly to JCPenney.com.
You will be updating your Facebook, doing product placements, and won’t even know it..
From the AP story:
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook users who check in to a store or “like” a brand may soon find those actions re-transmitted on their friends’ pages as a “Sponsored Story” paid for by advertisers.
Currently there is no way for users to decline this feature
There is something really creepy about Facebook, and anyone who thinks about it knows it, even if you have a Facebook.
I have been steadily ending lots of updates on there and stopped publishing my Coal Speaker Tumblr feed on there too for fear of this very thing.. I may not matter or be a big deal to the masses of advertisers, but.. even if there’s a chance an advertiser would use me without concern is enough to make me want to quit Facebook altogether.
