Category: Marketing
You Make It, We Play It.
Advertisement contest that will broadcast the winning entry into outer space.
Post date: Friday, March 7th, 2008.
Free tacos.
Post date: Tuesday, October 24th, 2006.
7:11.
Seven-Eleven convenience store chain has purchased the rights to the starting time of Chicago White Sox baseball games.
Post date: Friday, October 20th, 2006.
Tooth Tunes.
Toothbrush that plays music while brushing that you hear in your head. (via)
Post date: Thursday, October 12th, 2006.
Rising Sun Anger Release Bar.
Bar in China where customers can beat up the staff.
Post date: Wednesday, August 9th, 2006.
Egg-vertising.
CBS will advertise TV shows for its fall lineup on the shells of eggs.
Post date: Monday, July 17th, 2006.
Typosquatting.
Advertisers are are designing website placeholders with ads on popular domain name misspellings. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006.
Children’s Tylenol with Flavor Creator.
Liquid medicine that is packaged with a packets of flavor crystals allows children to make their medicine taste better. (via)
Post date: Thursday, April 27th, 2006.
Say WA.
Slogan created to encourage tourism for Washington state.
Post date: Thursday, March 16th, 2006.
Where the bloody hell are you?
Australian ad campaign seeks to attract more tourists by swearing at them. (via)
Post date: Thursday, February 23rd, 2006.
Stampede beer.
Beer that is better for you because it is enhanced with vitamins.
Post date: Sunday, February 12th, 2006.
Vote with Your Throat.
Ontario brewery is counting sales of beers renamed for running political parties as votes, and it is proving to be a startlingly accurate barometer for poll measurement.
Post date: Thursday, January 19th, 2006.
Dead Body Guy.
Man who wants to play dead for a living. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, December 13th, 2005.
GWIE.
Swiss group believes that they can make Google eat itself. (via)
Post date: Thursday, December 8th, 2005.
Shirtless guy.
California man offering ad rental space on his chest and back.
Post date: Tuesday, November 8th, 2005.
I see dead people.
Outdoor marketing campaign that used people made up to look like they had been murdered.
Post date: Friday, October 21st, 2005.
The Force is with them.
Cable channel buys TV rights to all six Star Wars movies. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, October 19th, 2005.
BARF.
Biologically Appropriate Raw Food is being marketed as a healthier alternative to processed dog and cat foods.
Post date: Tuesday, October 18th, 2005.
Moving ads.
German electronics firm has created paper-sized TV screens that can be used to animate ads in newspapers and magazines. (via)
Post date: Friday, October 14th, 2005.
All five fingers.
Post date: Thursday, October 13th, 2005.
SpaceShot.
Texas corporation will have online gaming competitions with trips to space as winning prizes. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, October 12th, 2005.
Keep the change.
Bank of America offering new debit card program that rounds up purchases to the next dollar and invests the difference in a bank-matching account. (via)
Post date: Friday, October 7th, 2005.
Bootie beer.
Beverage with a risqué name looking to shake up the beer industry. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, October 4th, 2005.
Alaska B4UDIE.
Alaska Travel Industry Association launches a billboard marketing campaign featuring a slogan ‘to get people thinking about Alaska now rather than later‘.
Post date: Tuesday, October 4th, 2005.
Michelada.
Mexican beer mix of lime juice, spices, chili pepper, ice and a salted rim is coming to America.
Post date: Monday, October 3rd, 2005.
Mandaids.
Guys: Patch up those cuts and bruises with duct tape bandages.
Post date: Thursday, September 29th, 2005.
Pureprofile.
A reverse search engine that allows consumers to publicly advertise the products they are seeking and for the marketers of these products to reach them. (via)
Post date: Monday, September 26th, 2005.
Kidsbeer.
A nonalcoholic beer has been created to target children and is being packaged in brown bottles to look like real beer. (via)
Post date: Monday, September 26th, 2005.
Buyer’s reward.
Mitsubishi says customers who buy a 2005 model year vehicle will get free gas for a year.
Post date: Thursday, September 22nd, 2005.
Noodles in space.
TV commercial for Cup Noodle to be filmed on the International Space Station.
Post date: Wednesday, September 21st, 2005.
BorrowMe.com
Web startup aims to be ‘the product lending library for the world’. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, September 13th, 2005.
$1,000,000 Home Page.
Man plans on making himself a millionaire, one pixel at a time. (via)
Post date: Thursday, September 8th, 2005.
Ad man.
Man paints ads on his face and body in hopes of becoming a real live ad model. (via)
Post date: Thursday, September 8th, 2005.
LEGO.
Legos.com is a redirect page owned by LEGO that correctly informs you that the brand name LEGO is not plural. (via)
Post date: Thursday, September 8th, 2005.
Divine opportunity.
Image of Jesus on a perogi bought by, you guessed it, GoldenPalace.com.
Post date: Tuesday, August 16th, 2005.
Not armed or dangerous.
Radio station stunt that had three listeners dress like escaped inmates trying to hitch a ride backfired when dozens of ‘terrified’ motorists called 911.
Post date: Monday, August 15th, 2005.
Bumvertising.
Putting the homeless to work by putting advertisements on them.
Post date: Monday, August 15th, 2005.
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