Jun 12
This is the single most awesome Tic Tac commercial of all time—in that I will never again eat orange Tic Tacs without thinking of a fat fuzzy guy’s belly button. Now that’s branding. [BF]
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Jun 12
Moms are at the absolute best. They brought you into the world, they raised you, they loved you, they took care of you, they Mom’d you. In fact, what they’re not the best at is a very short list. Actually, it’s just one thing: Computers. No matter how easy it is to use a computer, Moms will always find a way to freeze the screen and/or forward cute e-mails.
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Jun 10
Some companies come up with great advertising campaigns and slogans, even when their products or services fall short more often than not. You could always call their hotline and make complaints that fall on deaf ears… or you could do so in an unconventional and funny way and send a message to the company at the same time.
How? By going viral with realistic company slogans that describe what these firms are really doing for and to their customers. This probably wasn’t the intention of Redditor Mrguest, but if a company has wronged you, then you might want to try this approach to make them listen to you and your concerns.
Over 16,000 responses were recorded in Mrguest’s thread, and BuzzFeed has logofied the best responses to make it easier for the rest of us to digest.
The Adobe one above happens to be my favorite, and the one for RadioShack is a close second. Check out the rest in the gallery below and see which realistic slogan is the most fitting for its respective company.
[via Laughing Squid]
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Apr 26
Christopher Nolan is a great movie director but how would his genius and uh, love for darkness, translate into something like commercials? It’d probably be hilarious! Though let’s be honest, if I saw a coffee commercial like Inception, Memento or The Dark Knight, I’d go out to the store and buy their coffee immediately. More »
Apr 25
The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Melt Yourself Down – “Fix My Life”
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Great googley moogley. Watch this on full-screen and prepare to melt into your chair. The music of Melt Yourself Down, a London-based Jazz Fusion group some describe as “Afrocentric jazz-tinged tribal pop” (the what?), is crazy good and the animation from Morgan Beringer is enough to make your brain jump clean out of your skull and run screaming from the room. Seriously, get ready for a four minute trip through bat country. More »
Apr 25
Supervillains are so consumed with being evil and doing bad things against humanity and/or superheroes that they don’t really have time to go dating. Sad, right? What should they do? Why go speed dating! World of Heroes imagined how supervillains like Darth Vader, Joker, Bane, Cobra Commander, Doctor Octopus and others would do on a speed dating run. I think I’d let Cobra Commander or Bane holler. Doctor Octopus is too creepy. [World of Heroes via The Awesomer] More »
Apr 25
Working in an office with other people is fraught with all kinds of tensions and politics*, but there is nothing more divisive than the humble shared printer. Here’s the instruction manual they forgot to include in the box that behemoth of a color laser arrived in. [PHD Comics] More »
Apr 24
It’s a good business model, sure. I mean you’ve got a captive audience, which any infomercial host would kill for. But what’s with actually killing them? Pretty sure murdering your marketing base is going to hurt sales and next quarter’s growth. More »
Apr 24
Splitsider Presents: A Place to Buy Awesome Comedy Where the Artists Actually Get Paid
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The push towards DRM-free distribution has come in fits and spurts; Louis CK helped pioneer and popularize the model, but to date there still hasn’t been a centralized hub where you can buy high-quality comedy, for a little bit of money, that the artist gets to keep. More »
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