Your favorite form of advertising?

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My favorite: Airships, dirigibles. I would support NAMBLA if they had a blimp.

Least favorite: Commercials before the movies! Let marketers know that I will NEVER BUY ANY PRODUCT advertised before the feature. I just paid $9 to see a commercial? Boo.

― Andy, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

My favorite: Airships, dirigibles. I would support NAMBLA if they had a blimp.

Least favorite: Airships, dirigibles. The NYPD used the Fuji blimp to spy on protestors during the RNC.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

The kind where they give money, free food and sexual favors while I pretend to pay attention.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

How is it "spying" if they're in the middle of the street? Go Fuji!

― andy, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

sheesh. nevermind.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i like really subversive advertising that is actually kind of creepy in its unassumingness.
like for instance there was a camera manufacture who hired 10 actors to stroll around
3rd street promenade in santa monica (they've done the same thing in many other
touristy places). these actors were made to walk around and ask people to take a picture
of them standing in front of some stupid thing or another. the person who's using the
camera has no idea that they're being advertised to just then, they just think they're
using some guys nifty new camera to take a picture of him as a favor. then when they
go to buy a digicam, they remember how cool that guy's camera was.

sneaky. but for some reason i admire its inventiveness.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Fav 1: those little airplanes that fly along the coast with ribbons proclaiming things like "2 FOR 1 BOOGIE BOARDS @ WINGS"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Fav 2: radio/television jingles that are so catchy they EAT YOUR VERY SOUL

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Least Fav 1: POP-UPS

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I like advertising on beer mats and match boxes that are not for companies that produce beer/alcohol and matches. Cardboard is terrific stuff.

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i am strangely amused by really obvious product placement in movies. not average product placement, but the kind in which someone opens a refrigerator door and it is filled with nothing but jello snack packs. classic!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

skywriting! i was on the beach once and i saw a skywriting plane doing an ad for bail bonds! classic.

― A. Atom Gorgon (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

also i love really old-school classified pages, like the ones that advertise x-ray spex in the back of comic books, and there's just a P.O. box and the name of some fly-by-night manufacturer.

― A. Atom Gorgon (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was in Sydney, I saw an airplane skywriting at night! I couldn't figure out if he was just practicing or what.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and bring back the Burmashave signs.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Bathroom mini-billboards were big in San Francisco from 98-02, but have really dropped off a lot post dotcom. I don't know how I feel about them, but when you've had 4 pints and you're peeing for 3 minutes, you'll read whatever's in front of you.

― andy, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

sandwich boards

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Kleenex packets

― Laura E (laurae55), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.pharmacy.arizona.edu/images/museum/collection/globes/GLOB14.JPG

Pharmacy show globes are one of the most enigmatic advertisements... my little hometown pharmacy had one, but the Walgreens down the street does not have one. They're really weird.

More: http://www.pharmacy.arizona.edu/museum/globes.shtml

― andy, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Burmashave!

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

That globe thing is creepy looking. It's vaguely reminiscent of both Jabba the Hut's hookah with the frogs in it and the thing that held the liquidified Prince of Darkness in that movie called, um, Prince of Darkness.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Posters, especially when they've been ripped up.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Most favourite: haha - the obvious product placement one is great (pudding packs! pepsi! cheeze whiz!) I'll take a free pen with some company's name on it any day.

Least favourite: flatbed trucks that drive slowly down the main shopping streets, blaring music, and usually featuring a giant billboard of a half-naked woman in skanky underwear advertising, well, whatever. (Though I'm sure that that tops some people's most favourite list...)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

People in costumes handing out free samples.

― Nemo (JND), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, that's actually my least favourite. I just had it mentally blocked b/c people dressed up in mascot-like costumes scare me to the other side of the street. (shudder.)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I like getting free things. Also, one time near the New York Public Library I saw a guy in a goofy costume giving away Icebreakers gum who, when a group of young hippies walked by (Phish must have been in town), starting yelling at the top of his lungs, "FREE GUM FOR THE HIPPIES!!! HIPPIES GET YOUR FREE GUM HERE!!!"

― Nemo (JND), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I once had a dipshit kook on a unicycle looking hurt and indignant when I politely declined a free bottle of Frutopia. "But, dude... it's free."

― andy, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Whatever happened to Frutopia?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw a Fruitopia machine on Friday night. But, alas, believe Arizona et al have cooled its fire.

― andy, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

It was Fruitopia, man. It could never last.

― Nemo (JND), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

taste tests

― Symplistic (shmuel), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i like that one that's been in the back of the nation for several decades: the one offering a booklet by "flavius josephus" which proves that jesus never existed

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"Songwriters Wanted - Put Your Poem to Music!!" is another favorite...

― andy, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, that's actually my least favourite. I just had it mentally blocked b/c people dressed up in mascot-like costumes scare me to the other side of the street. (shudder.)

I'm not the only person with this fear! Woohoo!

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Sometimes when I see stuff like the way they slice in footage of the real-life completely tacky £20 spinning tops into animated footage of beyblades kicking ass, on Beyblade, I am totally blown away by how awesome and inventive and beautiful it is, and I sorta half-worry that I could live my life doing sinister evil shit like that and feel nothing but pride.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sitting here re-reading this thread and going "yeah! awesome! yeah!" and realising really horrendous things about myself.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

the worst: life insurance ads that include footage of planes crashing into the WTC and saying, "in a time of uncertainty..."

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

What about life insurance ads where Mickey Rooney smiles quietly in the background while his wife does all the talking? Makes you wonder about old Mickey.

― andy, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

my post makes it sound like the planes are talking. change "saying" to "say" please thanks.

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

those electronic hoardings that surround football pitchs and are constantly changing. i find them very distracting just watching, how the players cope i don't know.

i think it was birmingham fc at the weekend that had two rows of hoarding around their pitch for double the advertising space. also, the hoardings on the near side of the pitch that the camera would normally only see the back of, had been replaced with triangular hoardings with adverts on both sides.

i hate the fact you can't walk up stairs anymore without seeing adverts (those macdonalds ones in TCR tube for instance). make it stop.

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Wackiest: posterbox in pub loo (Glasshouse Stores) with sound chip and movement sensor that scares you when you go to wash your hands.

Favourite: posters on the sides of escalators in the Tube. Some of them are great and they distract from the minging environment/people. For sheer cathartic bile-production I like TV ads though. Very good for shouting at.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i like really subversive advertising that is actually kind of creepy in its unassumingness... sneaky. but for some reason i admire its inventiveness.

That's far more unassuming than creepy, since the "advertising" is purely about the product's ability to sell itself. I'm interested in a manufacturer who even has the balls to do that. It must be a pretty damn cool camera.

― Tonight at ten (kenan), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Favorite last night at the baseball game in SF:

Criminal lawyer specializing in DUI at about eyelevel above men's urinal. I larfed.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.creatingthe21stcentury.org/larry3i_m_not_interested__i.jpg

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, gygax!, what's DUI??

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Drunk under influence?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Driving under the influence.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

(Drunk driving)

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh right - we don't have that law in Ireland. Obviously.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

those mcD's adverts on the TCR steps are no longer there i noticed last night. (they've not done too good a job of removing them, lots of the plaster is missing)

i get called daily by telemarketers (i always let the Digital Lady answer it for me. they always hang up. but not before they've been charged for the call, ha).

i don't think i have a favourite form of advertising, it's all obtrusive and badly targeted.

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 23 September 2004 07:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe I'm a little old fashioned, but my favorite type of advertising is the kind where the company actually makes a decent product in the first place.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I pretty much h8 all advertising.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Word-of-mouth is my favorite.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

You know, some of my friends and I were at Quizno's talking about that the other night, Jim.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 24 September 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that selling skin-space will be the next big thing. I hope selling skin-space will be the next big thing.

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I got some blank skin space. Maybe I can land a sweet contract with Lexus.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I like those furry balls with googly eyes, sticky feet, and a strip of fabric which advertises the charity/company.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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