I don’t know who these people are or whether or not they’re any good but their ads are GENIUS!
Archive for January, 2010
My kind of law firm
Posted: January 26, 2010 in humor, lawyers, MarketingTags: Funny, lawyers, Marketing, personal injury, video
Air New Zealand is early leader for worst marketing of 2010
Posted: January 25, 2010 in Airlines, Marketing, Marketing blundersTags: Air New Zealand, Airlines, Cougars, Marketing, Marketing blunder, Marketing mistakes, Marketing to women
It’s only January 25th but Air New Zealand has already launched and crashed a major marketing campaign. The campaign was based around the “mating habits” of Kiwi cougars (older women seeking younger men, for those of you lucky enough not to know). I really, really can’t top the News of Australia’s description: In the Discovery [...]
Google learns how to say alligator tears in Chinese
Posted: January 13, 2010 in China, China Security and Surveillance Technology, Google, Hypocrisy, Marketing, Marketing blunders, TechCrunchTags: China, Google, Hypocrisy, Marketing, Marketing blunders
Google has “threatened” to pull out of China because – SURPRISE – the government was using Goog to get info on dissidents. NAHHH? Really? Next you’ll tell me that Mark McGwire was using steroids. Google … said that the company had discovered massive cyber attacks against itself and numerous other foreign companies that it said [...]
Most colorful pol in US ready to run again for office!
Posted: January 12, 2010 in Buddy Cianci, Cianci, Politics, Providence, Rhode IslandTags: Buddy Cianci, Cianci, Patrick Kennedy, Politics, Providence, Rhode Island
God bless you, Buddy Cianci. Cianci –– former mayor of Providence, RI, current radio talk show host, and convicted felon – says he may get back into politics. Cianci says he may run against either Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-Carpet Bagger) or current Mayor David N. Cicilline (the only gay Jewish Italian mayor IN THE WORLD!). [...]
A moment of silence for one of the greats … David Levine
Posted: January 4, 2010 in A moment of silence for one of the greatsTags: David Levine, New York Review of Books
There are a lot of good editorial cartoonists but – as with any other art form – there are very few great ones. The great ones are the ones whose work we still look at long after that moment in time has passed. These include Brits like Hogarth, Scarfe, Steadman to name a few – [...]
Domino’s realizes it makes really bad pizza
Posted: January 3, 2010 in domino's, GM, Marketing, Marketing blunders, Pizza, Pizza Delivery, Weasel wordsTags: domino's, Marketing, Marketing blunder, Pizza
Did you know Domino’s makes lousy pizza? While this is well known throughout the rest of the nation it seems to have just become known to those at Domino’s HQ. (Only possible explanation: The execs make too much money to eat their own product.) For a while the company tried — and failed — to [...]

