12 January 2011
The Fascinating Story of Porn and Technology Adoption
Yes, Cracked.com publishes some fascinating stuff but I generally find it awkward to link to them.
Let’s take a moment to think about Cracked. Most everyone gets that their material and the research behind it doesn’t quite match the quality you find in Wired.
This meta comment on Cracked relates very closely to this story on the new web publishing industry I discussed little over a year ago. How every pun in a Cracked.com article actually is search engine optimization becomes laughably clear in this porn piece. The writer has slipped in just about every FCC safe adult entertainment related expression you could daydream up of in the story.
Improving content distribution with sex and porn is just that powerful. If you have a web site, you could try this yourself: just mention porn in some really obscure way and you’ll probably get at least some traffic through someone’s really fap happy search engine queries. If you mention child porn, you’ll be awarded search traffic so depraved you might feel a bit uncomfortable just storing your search referer data.
[via:Joonas Mäkinen]
18 November 2009
9 November 2009
30 June 2009
Microsoft’s strange new online video ads for Internet Explorer 8
I kind of liked F.O.M.S. and to some degree, G.R.I.P.E.S.. It can’t be easy to come up with something clever to say about a product known to everyone who cares as utter shit. But hey, IE9 is likely to be good enough for basic users in a Safari-like way.
[via:Estraye]
13 June 2009
17 January 2009
Christian UK bus driver refuses to drive a bus with atheist “There’s probably no God” ad banner
See also: The home page of the ad campaign
1 November 2008
30 August 2008
“As more newspapers and other media outlets cut staff, public relations and advertising make gains. The Minnesota-based firm ARAnet provides “free print and Web content. [...] More than 65 of the nation’s top 100 newspapers, including the Star Tribune, use” ARAnet content, which “carries client messages.” ARAnet president Scott Severson says his firm provides “high-quality consumer content” that “just happen[s] to be underwritten by our clients.”"
Summary from PR-Watch.
[via:rms]
22 August 2008
Actors paid to line up for iPhone launch in Poland
“As part of a marketing campaign ahead of the iPhone’s Friday launch in Poland, the country’s largest mobile operator Orange is paying dozens of actors to stand in queues.”
15 August 2008
5 August 2008
The Onion: World’s Worst Person Decides To Go Into Marketing
“I think it’s the career path that will best utilize my networking skills and my ability to think outside the box,” said Deenan, whose smug, gloating tone and shit-eating smile just make you want to punch his goddamn teeth in. “So I’m definitely thinking marketing. Either that, or PR.”
[via:Merlin]
26 July 2008
Meat commercial from Soviet-era Estonia
The words being chanted are “chicken” and “meat“, kanahakkliha=chicken minced meat. Edit: Harry Egipt, the man behind this and many other.. powerful Estonian tv ads has been discussed in-depth elsewhere.
[via:Kottke]
25 July 2008
Beijing 2008 Amnesty International ad
Amnesty International ad: Beijing 2008 - Stop China's World Record of Executions
Full size and more info on Ads of the World.