Category: Great Advertising
July 16th, 2008

The Curious History of Lagomorphs in Advertising.

From the Trix rabbit to the Energizer Bunny, our whiskered, long-eared (and according to David, delicious,) furry friends have had a long and remarkably successful run in the advertising industry. Not to mention popular culture in general. I encourage you to check out a fun list of some of the top lagomorphs of all-time, and enjoy some awesome commercial memories like this one, from 1994:

Thanks SaveABunny.

(A confession – I totally just wrote a blog about another blog that I wrote. I feel… dirty. But kinda proud of myself. Is that wrong?)

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July 12th, 2008

AirMe debuts as lead photo app in new iTunes.

OK this counts as a first. Visit the photography tab of the latest version of iTunes to get the new photo sharing app from our client Airme.

Right now AirMe users can post pictures from their iPhone directly to Flickr. AirMe adds location information to the pictures (the new iPhone is GPS enabled) and the AirMe user can include all kinds of extra custom tags like weather. AirMe will be adding scads more social networks very soon.

We like it because you can literally shoot and post without any clumsy emailing or additional needless faffing around. As Craig says, its easy, easy, easy.

You can get AirMe in the Apps section of iTunes.

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June 11th, 2008

Harry Potter Zoo Animals

No, the San Diego Zoo isn’t promoting their new location in back of Hogwarts, but it sure does look that way.

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Thanks to OhLaLaMag for this one.

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May 2nd, 2008

Honey, have you been at the bennies again?

This is a classic print ad from the ’60s. Presumably it’s for plastic wrap. But it could also be for your local looney bin or even whatever magical substance that woman is clearly (plastic wrap = clearly, ha!) on.

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April 4th, 2008

Ye Olde Advertisorium

A website called Worth1000 is running a contest to photoshop new products into old-timey ads. In honor of our refreshing breakfast lunch whole damn weekend beverage, we’ve included an example below.

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Thank you, Gawker.

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