Friday, October 29, 2010

Too much work, too little blogging! More this weekend!

Been working a lot the past 2 days, I've got some good content lined up for this weekend, stay tuned!

How I feel at work. 

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Screamfest Halloween Ad

Just thought I'd throw a quick update at you guys while I play some more Team Fortress 2! This one's from a previous year's Screamfest, it includes Chuckie and Jason.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Team Fortress 2 Halloween Special

It's that time of Year again, and I'm happy to announce that Valve has released their second annual Halloween update for Team Fortress 2. Of course this takes time away from my blog, but I highly recommend everyone plays it.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Monday, October 25, 2010

Snickers Halloween Grocery Store Lady

Here's a follow up post to the one I posted earlier today, I was able to find the Ad thanks to a post from Savage Nuget


Believe it or not they actually have the Lady's costume available online right here!

Snickers Halloween Ad

Here's a snapshot of this years Snicker's Candy Halloween ad. I haven't seen the commercial yet but this screenshot gives me the creeps.

I'll try getting the commercial up on my video player ASAP.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

New York City Ad Vandalism

Here's a New York City 7-11 advert that's been vandalized for a political message. Perhaps an anti-political message? Leave a comment and let me know what you guys think the vandals were trying to get across to the general public. Unfortunately I have to work most of the day, make sure you have a great Saturday folks!

Friday, October 22, 2010

Ads in a public school?

Ads in a public school? Schools in Minnesota are voting in November, whether to place ads on 10 percent of the available surfaces in all of the district's seven schools. That includes lockers, walls and floors. I found this on a  Minnesota newspaper, the Star Tribune. The full article can be found here. I'd like to hear what my followers think about it.

On Nov. 1, the school board is slated to decide whether it will allow the ads on up to 10 percent of the available surfaces in all of the district's seven schools. That includes lockers, walls and floors. The take for the district? $184,000 a year.
In a bleak economy, with dim prospects for any new state school funding, Centennial -- with $3.6 million in cuts this year and more likely on the way next year -- is just the latest school district looking at the ads as an alternative way to generate some cash. Paul Miller, president of Coon Rapids-based School Media's, the company that would install the ads, said he expects to have nine Twin Cities school districts signed up by the end of the year.
Nearby St. Francis schools already made that decision. Ads will start going up on lockers there this week, said district Superintendent Edward Saxton. The district's agreement with School Media's is similar to Centennial's proposed agreement. Its take: $190,000 to $200,000 a year.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Ask for ID - Yes on Prop 19 Ad

Here's an Ad sponsored by the Tax Cannabis party in favor of passing Prop 19, which if passed in the state of California will tax and regulate Marijuana much like Tobacco and Alcohol. 


More Examples of Ad Placement Failures!

Here are a few examples of ad placement failures, this is what happens when you don't do your research about where your ad is going! Perhaps it's just an occasional coincidence, but I can assure you some of these could have been prevented! 

TIP: Click each thumbnail for a larger image. 





Popular sayings and phrases in today's most popular ads!

I've been doing some research lately and have noticed MANY reoccurring sayings or phrases in ads, banners, and all sites revolving around marketing. I still haven't figured out why marketing experts pick these phrases, but they work when you're trying to attract readers to your site! I'll go ahead and list a few of them as examples. 

"It's the words that do the selling..."

"The little secret no one else is telling you..."

"I have some very good news for you..."

"Thousands Have Discovered This
Little Known Secret To Making
Money Online -- Now It's
Your Turn..."
 
-- Special Limited Time Offer --

These are results of a amazing marketing research that stands the tests of time and showed exactly how important the testing of headlines is in the success of your ads. If you have any questions feel free to shoot me an email:
 
adpluscommunications@gmail.com

AT&T Cell Phone Ads "Global Roaming"

I'm back, this time with enough content for a few weeks! Sorry about the delay and lack of quality posts, as I've said I've been busy with business and research.. and TF2. 
  
Today's Ads are from a recent AT&T advert displaying that they're making more and more of their phones viable for those who travel, and others around the world.  They call this series "Global Roaming". 




Sunday, October 10, 2010

Apology and "Never Say No to Panda" Cheese Ad

First I'd like to appoligize to my followers for not being as involved with my blog as I should be the last 2 weeks, I'll be sure to get around to doing more updates this following week and well and checking out some of my followers blogs! I've been checking on and off but don't have time to comment on your blog posts until this coming week. Thanks for all the support!


Now, here's another video ad, the other one went well so I figured I'd give you guys another video. This time it's for cheese company called Panda. That's right, the name of the company is actually Panda Cheese Company. You've gotta see this commercial, amazingly funny!



Never Say No to Panda

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Awesome Used Car Ad!

I've been busy playing way too much TF2, sorry bloggers. Anyways, here's an awesome Used Car ad by BMW. I love it.